# On Black being the new black

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 26, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-black-being-the-new-black/919099 "2020-08-26T22:49:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-black-being-the-new-black/919099/23 "2020-08-27T14:01:47Z")

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> [@Danny\_Hammer](#):
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> I think capitalising black but not white (and vice versa) is stupid and counterproductive.

I haven’t thought this through or heard all the arguments, but it seems to me that capitalizing Black but not white reinforces the idea that white is the default—that Black people are a specific subgroup of people but white people are not; they’re just normal people. And I don’t think that’s an attitude we ought to be reinforcing.

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