A white man fatally shoots 3 Black people at a Florida store in a hate crime, then kills himself : news

[–] kartonrealista 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Watch the right try to spin this somehow as a regular crime with no racial context.

[–] tourist 12 points 1 year ago

How could he be racist if the gun he carved a swastika into was black?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

The shooting happened one day before the 63rd anniversary of one of Jacksonville’s most notorious racist incidents, “Ax Handle Saturday.” A group of Black protesters were conducting a peaceful sit-in at a city park to protest the Jim Crow laws that kept them out of white-owned stores and restaurants. That's when they were attacked by 200 members of the Ku Klux Klan, who hit them with bats and ax handles as police stood by.

Only when members of a Black street gang arrived to fight the Klansmen did the police intercede. Only Black people were arrested.

[+] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/capital-b-black-styleguide.php

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Different orgs use different style guides as some have already said. In almost all Black is capitalized, whereas white is rarely capitalized but you still see it occasionally.

I’m torn on white/White personally. The reason given by most is that it falls in line with white supremacist rhetoric, and generally has been capitalized exclusively in that context. Totally valid argument to not use it for that reason.

On the other hand I think leaving it lowercase risks making it an assumed default state, or makes it so that white people think of “racial” issues as something that does not include them. Plus allowing white supremacists to decide what is or isn’t whiteness and how we talk about it I think is a bad idea…

More from the AP blog here on their use of Black/white.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Personally I think the only thing that makes sense is consistency, either White/Black or white/black, that way everyone's equal. To me it doesn't matter which, so long as it's consistent.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Wow for once a headline

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting that Meatball's remarks only denounce the fact that the shooter killed himself. He didn't mention anything about the innocent victims of this senseless violence. What a loser.

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