Here at Twitchy, we editors are supposed to follow the Associated Press Stylebook when it comes to spelling, capitalization, abbreviations, etc. I still don’t capitalize “black,” though, even though the AP adopted that style in 2020. (The Washington Post has decided to capitalize both White and Black, even though the AP says capitalizing White subtlely conveys legitimacy to the white supremacist movement.) Me, I lowercase both, because I am offended that the AP’s reasoning is so specious. Black is capitalized, they say, because the word “includes the shared experience of discrimination due solely to the color of one’s skin.” Therefore, you lowercase white because “white people generally do not share the same history and culture, or the experience of being discriminated against because of skin color.”
So … all people with black skin share the same history and culture?
And if white people “generally do not share the same history and culture,” then why are we always told about “whiteness” and how it’s a) bad and b) systematic in everything in this country?
That’s stupid.
The Nation justice correspondent, Elie Mystal, whom Joy Reid brings on her show to make her look less racist, raises the question with this tweet: What is the “truth” about white people?
Telling the truth about white people to white people can exact a terrible price on one's career and opportunities. And our civil rights leaders know especially that far too often that cost is exacted in blood.
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) November 5, 2022
What is “the truth about white people?” I’d be interested to know. https://t.co/msIS5JUcB5
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) November 5, 2022
What ideological positions or behaviors or thoughts do all white people share? https://t.co/mY9VhzFvBw
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) November 5, 2022
Well… You guys sure like pumpkin spice.
FACE THE TRUTH DAVE! pic.twitter.com/nWZ2SV2e1Y
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) November 5, 2022
We really do love mayonnaise
— Brad Tolliver (@brill1066) November 5, 2022
Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
— Will Dooley (@TheBoyzDad) November 5, 2022
Let me get back to you after I check in with all my fellow white people.
— William M. Doyle (@WilliamMDoyle2) November 5, 2022
"The truth about white people"
Oh.— Just One Strawman (@JustOneStrawman) November 5, 2022
"Telling the truth about white people to white people can exact a terrible price on one's career and opportunities. " pic.twitter.com/nCusoiIcSz
— Private Joker (@PrivateJoker9) November 5, 2022
Your entire career is based on this thinly veiled contempt of “whites”. How many viewers are you personally responsible for driving off with this righteous bloviating?
— Maureen (@SynicalGirl) November 5, 2022
Where in his career would Mystal be if he weren’t apprehensive about telling the truth about white people to the white people at The Nation or MSNBC?
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Related:
The Nation’s Elie Mystal says it’s conservative white folks who ‘turn violent when they don’t get their way’ https://t.co/v0MY2EI4FQ
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 17, 2022
