Timeline for Would it be considered controversial to describe a character in my script as "black"?
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| Dec 12, 2020 at 5:43 | comment | added | nick012000 | @Astralbee I'm not sure why you're taking someone referring to a group of people that they don't belong to as "them" as offensive. I'm White, so of course I would refer to Black people as "them" rather than "us". The New York Times updated their style guide after consulting their Black staff members. | |
| Dec 11, 2020 at 8:25 | comment | added | Astralbee | @nick012000 "Them". Could this get any more offensive? | |
| Dec 10, 2020 at 21:36 | comment | added | nick012000 | @Astralbee The newspaper updated their style guide after consulting with them over their preferred nomenclature. | |
| Dec 10, 2020 at 15:29 | comment | added | Astralbee | I don't claim to speak for all black (or Black) people, but I don't think a newspaper style-guide gets to determine what they want to be called. Even the mighty NY Times with its mainly affluent, over 50, white readership. This would be a great answer to the question "should 'black' have a capital B" but sadly the question was "would it be controversial". | |
| Dec 10, 2020 at 3:20 | comment | added | Eddie Kal | +1. I am of the opinion that this question is a word usage question. One minor thing with your answer is that one of the reasons "Black" is quickly becoming the preferred term is that it transcends and subsumes other terms such as "African American". "Black" is more than "African American".It is greater and more universal. | |
| Dec 9, 2020 at 15:09 | history | answered | nick012000 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |