The Atlantic: The Hidden Bigotry of Crosswords
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Paper starts out white (well, kind of a faded grey). The ink had to be black.
Go rage at Gutenberg. He probably actually was a real racist anti-semite. He was German y'know.
This... Exists. https://libraetd.lib.virginia.edu/downloads/gb19f621r?filename=thesis.pdf
"Red Letters, White Paper, Black Ink: Race, Writing, Colors, and Characters in 1850s America"
You and I were both joking, but sheeeit, academics have quite literally been bemoaning the "whiteness" of paper for at least that long (it was published in '97)... rolls eyes
Holy shit, we've actually got to the point where "bleached paper and white-background websites are racist" will be a thing, in the near future, haven't we... :-O
Very much another example of "First they came for the..." (which is also, of course, German), hey?
But they're the "Good Guys TM, on the right side of history", of course, so who am I to question it/blow against the wind (thanks Paul Simon for that one)..?