Seattle Times updates style
guide to capitalize 'Black';
keeps 'white' lowercase
Washington Times,
by
Jessica Chasmar
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
12/21/2019 9:26:44 AM
The Seattle Times has issued a new style guideline instructing staff to capitalize the word “Black” when referring to a culture, ethnicity or group of people, the newspaper announced Thursday evening. The word “white,” however, will remain lowercase when referring to people with “light-colored skin, especially those of European descent,” the newspaper said. The publication explained that capitalizing the term “Black” is necessary because it is a reflection of shared cultures and experiences, like foods, languages and music.” The word “white” however will remain lowercase because it merely refers to the physical description of people “whose backgrounds may spring from many different cultures,”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 12/21/2019 9:38:24 AM (No. 268347)
Leftists: Racist to the bone.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Knotwyrkin 12/21/2019 9:42:33 AM (No. 268356)
I am offended by their calling me white. I am Germano-American, you two-faces liberal ignoramuses.
21 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/21/2019 9:42:54 AM (No. 268357)
Catering to the "woke" 10% while giving up the 90%? Brilliant marketing move there... sure to increase subs.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
BillW. 12/21/2019 9:46:57 AM (No. 268361)
They should now spend at least a week examining the navels for untoward lint. --Vets for Trump
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 12/21/2019 10:02:33 AM (No. 268379)
This past Spring they also changed how they will allow on-line comments. They no longer allow comments if the story is from the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated press or UPI, etc. Only on stories that are local and then only if it's non controversial. In this way the few conservatives, like me, who do read the paper (only on-line) no longer even have that small voice to correct the bias that's in all their stories.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JL80863 12/21/2019 10:07:55 AM (No. 268383)
It seems that often times the reference is to "teens" or "youths" and not much else.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
sw penn 12/21/2019 10:47:04 AM (No. 268420)
So there you have it ...
Blacks from Sweden and blacks from The Congo and blacks from the Caribbean
all look the same to the Seattle Times.
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What about ni**er, is that a capital N or lower case?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 12/21/2019 10:55:41 AM (No. 268428)
Identity Politics is what defines the Left. Our so-called- leaders should be working towards implementing goals to benefit all members of society, to bring us together under one banner, the American flag. But the Left exists to perpetuate ITSELF, and so must constantly create division and sow discord in order to claim it's need to exist. They are like firemen who set blazes and then loudly proclaim that, if not for them, the fires wouldn't get put out. Their end game is power-power to rule to control, to subjugate, to turn us into a giant ant colony where We The People are the workers who service the Left Elites, the ruling class.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Troutgreen 12/21/2019 10:56:03 AM (No. 268429)
Wow. The Seattle Times has managed to be condescending, racist, and pandering, and guilty of stereotyping and profiling all in one insipid article.
Somewhere, some editor's College of Journalism at some elitist university is proud.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Daria 12/21/2019 10:59:07 AM (No. 268430)
Wait, Times, don’t go excluding the yellow and red and those who self identify as taupe. Don’t want anyone to feel disenfranchised.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 12/21/2019 11:14:14 AM (No. 268449)
When you see what makes up the City Council in Seattle, this is not a surprise in the least. Minority Leftists are not gonna worry about anyone who is White. They should though, because this paper is the main one read in the suburbs, which by the way are majority White. When you go into the Redmond/Issaquah area, you would think you are walking through a neighborhood in a large city in India now. That is all thanks to Bill Gates and his hatred of his fellow Americans.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 12/21/2019 11:16:03 AM (No. 268451)
I would say the Negro has won the "race war". Where do we sign the agreement?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 12/21/2019 11:17:44 AM (No. 268453)
I have no problem with my capitalization. First Obama was (p)resident Obama, Trump is President Trump that's for starters.
The party democrat is always lower case. All democrats are 'buffoons' lower case. The movement is progressive communist lower case. White is white and black is black except when stating a sentence. That's why I never started a sentence with president Obama. the seattle times is a blatant racist publication no capitalization is needed at all in that sentence. See how that works?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
cor-vet 12/21/2019 11:23:19 AM (No. 268459)
To add to Poster #15, liberal and democrat are lower case, Republican and Conservative are capitalized.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rather Read 12/21/2019 11:23:38 AM (No. 268460)
Blacks from Rwanda are different than Blacks from Jamaica who are different than Blacks from Belize who are different than Blacks from England who are different than Blacks from the United States. Trust me, I've known and taught all of them.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
TulsaTowner 12/21/2019 11:31:15 AM (No. 268474)
Yes, of course, they all look the same, talk the same, eat the same things and share the exact same culture. Most of all, certainly, they must all VOTE the same!
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So all blacks are the same? Huh who knew, I wonder if the Jamaicans and the Haitians and the South Africans and the North Africans and the East Africans know this. Somehow I think only leftist think that because you are black you must fit into one box. Some of us know better. But it is why they think they will all vote for the democrats come Nov. Well maybe this November will show us shades of black just like shades of every other color.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Smart11344 12/21/2019 11:44:09 AM (No. 268495)
Give the blacks, the capital letter. Drop the African-American garbage. Many Blacks probably don't know where Africa is and that many white people live there.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
chillijilli 12/21/2019 11:46:13 AM (No. 268497)
I'm an unhyphenated person of no color. I demand to know if I'm capitalized or not.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
farmwife 12/21/2019 11:53:18 AM (No. 268507)
Will they be capitalizing Black in the crime reports, too?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Smart11344 12/21/2019 11:54:16 AM (No. 268508)
I also dropped the Seattle Times decades ago, when on the front page, below the fold, they accused Rush Limbaugh for the reason Timothy McVeigh bombed a building in Oklahoma. I made the call within 5 minutes of the paper arriving. I was beyond angry and stunned and actually called a local talk show and vented about The Times. They are practically wobbling on one leg to survive. They, like many papers have sold off other properties to stay afloat. The Seattle Post Intelligencer, a second daily paper is long gone. Thankfully.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Right Time 12/21/2019 12:26:24 PM (No. 268539)
I am not white. I am Caucasian, you racists.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Newtsche 12/21/2019 12:38:58 PM (No. 268550)
Dear Seattle Times,
It's ok to be White.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 12/21/2019 12:47:21 PM (No. 268559)
And all the Somali pirates in Seattle raided the Seattle fake news building in a wild riotous display of feral violence
They not only want to foment a civil war
They want a race war too
You commie bastids!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Geoman 12/21/2019 12:47:42 PM (No. 268561)
What the progressive newspaper is mistakenly revealing with theologic is their belief that white people are far more "diverse" than black people. I bet they didn't really think this attempt at pandering through.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
franq 12/21/2019 1:57:19 PM (No. 268616)
Beg to differ, #15. When the CIC is a 'Rat, it's President ____. When the CIC is GOP, it's Mr. _______.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
lakerman1 12/21/2019 4:11:14 PM (No. 268689)
It is of vital importance to race hustlers to pretend to have a common culture. But, Blacks who are professionals tend to not buy into the black culture
of hip hop, promiscuity, illegitimacy, violence, drugs and malt liquor. They also are not likely to smoke - menthols or non - and they don't own hundreds of pairs of sneakers. They also don't go clubbing all night long.
In order to justify affirmative action/quotas/preferential hiring, race hustlers have to pretend that their bruthas are all alike. And they are not.
(Black African graduate students, in my experience, were amused by their fellow blacks who were American.)
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/22/2019 2:36:11 PM (No. 269265)
The Seattle Times should put up or shut up. Give your leftist rag to a bunch of black leftists; hire only black writers, editors, and everything other position in the place. There should not be a privileged, racist, white male or female left in the high paying position. The current bosses and well paid whites should take over cleaning toilets and such at $15/hour. Then, give up your homes, bank accounts, cars, etc. Boom! you've built your first utopia. Utopia starts at home.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
DVC 12/22/2019 2:40:16 PM (No. 269268)
As usual, total BS. Their premise is totally bogus.
A black person from New Guinea has exactly NOTHING whatsoever in common with a black person from subSaharan Africa, who have exaclty nothing in common with the current generation of American blacks.
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Seattle Times employment application question: "How much do you hate white people?
A, a lot.
B, a whole lot.
C, with every fiber of my being, even more than I hate The Orange Man.
"C? Welcome aboard, comrade!"