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  • I get making a separation between reference to skin colour or “race” and culture, but I just feel like it should be consistent. Out of curiosity I checked how Wikipedia handled it and it doesn’t seem like there’s one rule

    Ethno-racial “color labels” may be given capitalized (Black and White) or lowercase (black and white); mixed use (Black, but white) is also acceptable if editors at a particular article find it appropriate.

    A June–December 2020 proposal to capitalize “Black” (only) concluded against that idea, and also considered “Black and White”, and “black and white”, with no consensus to implement a rule requiring either or against mixed use where editors at a particular article believe it’s appropriate. The status quo practice had been that either style was permissible, and this proposal did not overturn that.

    I wonder if it would be acceptable to do “White but black”, I feel like that would seem outright sketchy in a way the opposite doesn’t



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    I would assume most of the time “black” is used in this context same as “white”, as in to refer to a skin colour, not to a culture.

    And can’t people just refer in general to culture of white people collectively and unspecifically, that would also be written as capitalized “White” but would also be strange imo