Well are there multiple White races, or different types? No, it's a singular thing. There's one White race; race is the thing, White is the individual instance of it. It's not a category of things.
That the words have other meanings is irrelevant; Dwayne Johnson is The Rock even though rocks existed before he was named after them. The constellation Cancer is capitalized even though cancer is not. Job, the man, and job.
I think White and Black should both be capitalized, not for any grammatical reason, but because when leftists write some racist screed about how oppressed they are it looks dumb with so many capitalized words.
I can think of Britons, Slavs, Iberians, Scandinavians. Just like I can think of Congolese, Nigerians, Ethopians for black (if they could remember where their ancestors came from). So yeah I think there are multiple white and black races.
That the words have other meanings is irrelevant
When the other meaning can be a valid usage of the word in context and is intended as such, its completely relevant. The people can be described as white, which means its a traditional coloration usage of the word.
My point isn't that it isn't valid to capitalize it, its that if someone chooses not to its not some 4d political stance they are dogwhistling. Its more likely they are just defaulting to their form of basic grammar without thinking about it.
The Left created a shadow, and its doing more work making us paranoid and fight amongst ourselves than it did to "validate or invalidate" their racial superiority views.
A race is a group of people with shared physical and/or historical ancestry. The fact that all those various whites can be denoted based on their differentiating physical features alone in a large quantity makes them a unique race.
"White" or "European" or even "Caucasoid" is the pulled back supercategory of race that all of them belong to, to denote their much wider differences away from the Negroid (black) and Mongoloid (yellow, red, brown) categories of race.
I'll grant you, I don't know enough about Africa to know their broad racial categories and just picked three countries I could remember offhand.
All the things you mentioned that are not White/Caucasian/European Descent synonyms are cultural or ethnic groups, not races.
In your view, the highest level of ancestry grouping doesn't have a name for itself, it's just "supercategory". That's never how naming works, the highest level always has the name.
Well are there multiple White races, or different types? No, it's a singular thing. There's one White race; race is the thing, White is the individual instance of it. It's not a category of things.
That the words have other meanings is irrelevant; Dwayne Johnson is The Rock even though rocks existed before he was named after them. The constellation Cancer is capitalized even though cancer is not. Job, the man, and job.
I think White and Black should both be capitalized, not for any grammatical reason, but because when leftists write some racist screed about how oppressed they are it looks dumb with so many capitalized words.
I can think of Britons, Slavs, Iberians, Scandinavians. Just like I can think of Congolese, Nigerians, Ethopians for black (if they could remember where their ancestors came from). So yeah I think there are multiple white and black races.
When the other meaning can be a valid usage of the word in context and is intended as such, its completely relevant. The people can be described as white, which means its a traditional coloration usage of the word.
My point isn't that it isn't valid to capitalize it, its that if someone chooses not to its not some 4d political stance they are dogwhistling. Its more likely they are just defaulting to their form of basic grammar without thinking about it.
The Left created a shadow, and its doing more work making us paranoid and fight amongst ourselves than it did to "validate or invalidate" their racial superiority views.
Those are not races.
A race is a group of people with shared physical and/or historical ancestry. The fact that all those various whites can be denoted based on their differentiating physical features alone in a large quantity makes them a unique race.
"White" or "European" or even "Caucasoid" is the pulled back supercategory of race that all of them belong to, to denote their much wider differences away from the Negroid (black) and Mongoloid (yellow, red, brown) categories of race.
I'll grant you, I don't know enough about Africa to know their broad racial categories and just picked three countries I could remember offhand.
All the things you mentioned that are not White/Caucasian/European Descent synonyms are cultural or ethnic groups, not races.
In your view, the highest level of ancestry grouping doesn't have a name for itself, it's just "supercategory". That's never how naming works, the highest level always has the name.