When typing black people and white people how do you capitalize the words?

[lfromnj]

AP journalistic standards state that journalists since 2020 should capitalize "Black" people but not capitalize white. Do you support this and use this in your own written language?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I do not tend to follow any singular standard religiously. When I am typing them I tend to treat blacks and whites equally though. Voted Option 4 as that's probably closest.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I tend to capitalize both but occasionally I forget for white.

[HillGoose]

depends on if im schizo posting then i capitalize ANYTHING IMPORTANT otherwise idk i never tohught about it

[Battista Minola 1616]

In theory I capitalize both, I often forget or don't care for white and sometimes do for black.

[ingemann]

It depends on the context. As example I describe myself as white, because it's simply a physical description of how I look, I describe most Africans as black too for the same reason. But when I write about Americans, I use White and Black, because it's important identity markers, in the same way as I'm a Dane.

[Obama24]

I either capitalise both, or neither.

Capitalizing one instead of the other is divisive.

[Mexican Wolf]

I usually capitalize both.

[TDAS04]

No.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

nope.

[UlmerFudd]

holding the shift key is too much effort.

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

as an avid theory reader and revolution lover, its important to note that, considering the implicit support it gives to capitalism, capitalizing words basically makes you a fascist. its almost as bad as thinking voting matters.

[wnwnwn]

AP racist?

[E-Dawg]

AP racist?

Yes. If you are intentionally capitalizing one but not the other, that is racist.

[Battista Minola 1616]

as an avid theory reader and revolution lover, its important to note that, considering the implicit support it gives to capitalism, capitalizing words basically makes you a fascist. its almost as bad as thinking voting matters.

You can solve this problem by writing in Arabic, Hebrew, Hangul, Mkhedruli, Devanagari or many other scripts.

[Joseph Cao]

我不看黑，也不看白。

[dead0man]

neither, and I think capitalizing one and not the other(s) is dumb for the same reasons everyone else does

[Mr. Smith]

Both in German, neither in English...unless one of them starts the sentence.

#basicrules

[Anti-Trump Truth Socialite JD Vance Enjoying Juror]

I capitalize races the same way I would nationalities. "Jean is French" and "Jean is White" both get capitalized. I don't capitalize descriptions. "Maeve has very white skin" does not capitalized.

Then again I'm not always consistent when writing online. I'm sure if I were to comb through my prior posts I won't have always been consistent with capitalization. Fairly certain that I'm not preferentially capitalizing one color over the other though.