[lbo-talk] Fight the taboo on the use of the word "racist"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Mar 15 10:06:02 PST 2006


Jim Devine wrote:


>Why do I capitalize "Whites"? because of the grammatic principle of
>parallelism. Why don't other people do so?

I've asked several editors that question. The most common answer was "I don't know." My favorite rational for capitalizing Black and not white was, "It would give me the creeps to capitalize white." I prefer what the newspaper biz calls a down style, so I don't capitalize either.

Doug



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