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Funny you say that, because the generally accepted style is Black and white. Here's Microsoft's style guide for another example.

Generally speaking, capital "W" White tends to have supremacist overtones in print.

How do you feel about the 2001 game "Black & White" by Lionhead Studios?

I just only seem to think it came from some idea from the NY Times, and I don't think anyone says White, so it just seems, off kilter I guess I'd say. Of course I will say whatever is proper, but it's just, odd.

We do capitalise community names though - like deaf vs Deaf.

This is the same, it's not being used as a description of how someone looks, but to what community they belong.

Depends where you are

It’s common for Australian Aboriginals to call their community Blak

Some of my favorite media has a lot of n words in it, like Django unchained. You'll catch me dead before I ever say that word.

I know, I am not very comfortable.

I just want to be correct, but it still seems like a white person who writes for the NY Times idea and not universal for all black people, and that seems.... cringey.

I got myself into a tizzy last year as I was editing a document and it was on a person who uses they/them pronouns, and I wasn't sure if I should use "themself" or "themselves" as themself isn't a word, but plural also doesn't sound right. Then I realized a person who uses they/them probably cared less about this than I do.

This was a decision that I think the NY Times made to start capitalizing, and I've never understood why, but editors of books and articles all use it now, I saw it in a Stephen King story recently.

Language does change, a book by the trans writer Jennifer Finney Boylan about her own transition published in 2001 used transgendered through the book simply because that's what was used then, and now it's proper to say transgender; Jenny's book was released for an anniversary edition and she addressed that in the foreword, that she had left it as written but with some hesitation that people would be offended, which I think would be silly because it was never a slur, it simply was the language then, and before that trans people were called transsexual, and that also wasn't a slur. So terminology can and does evolve, but it's just so random in the case of capitalization and nobody has ever explained why.

Same reason you sometimes capitalize deaf/Deaf. They are different words.

Yeah I wonder why...

Surely nothing to do with 400 years of slavery followed by Jim Crow and permanent systemic racism.

I'm not American. I honestly just wondered because the first time I saw this used it was the NY Times saying they were doing it from now on.

I agree, but I also don't think it's bad to ask about it. Nothing wrong with learning and getting clarification.