"Black" is a proper noun, but "white" isn't

[d4m10n]

I dunno. Your question was what style guide they used. You asked, and I answered.

I think it's okay for skeptics to ask whether style guides are rooted in testable claims or social norms or something even more transient.

 

[arthwollipot]

Something international readers won't realise is that if you refer to a Maori or Pasifika person as "black" they will very likely take offence.

Not the same for Indigenous Australians, though, who are routinely referred to as "blackfullas"

 

[angrysoba]

I think it's okay for skeptics to ask whether style guides are rooted in testable claims...

I doubt it. They are usually full of dogmatic assertions about how to write:

The passive should be avoided.
Avoid cliches like the plague.
Hyperbole in writing will bring about the downfall of civilization.

etc...etc... we've all heard these before.

Unfortunately there are still people who think books like Strunk and white were handed down from Mount Sinai as the final word on how people should write good.

 

[The Atheist]

... books like Strunk and white ...

10/10 for style there though.

 

[Emily's Cat]

Not the same for Indigenous Australians, though, who are routinely referred to as "blackfullas"

I lack cultural context here... but that list seems a bit packed full of negative stereotypes at first glance. Is "blackfulla" something that indigenous Australians like to be called?

 

[The Atheist]

I lack cultural context here... but that list seems a bit packed full of negative stereotypes at first glance. Is "blackfulla" something that indigenous Australians like to be called?

It's not. Australia has a long and proud history of racism.

The last massacre of Indigenous Australians that passed without punishment was less than 100 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_of_Indigenous_Australians

 

[arthwollipot]

I lack cultural context here... but that list seems a bit packed full of negative stereotypes at first glance. Is "blackfulla" something that indigenous Australians like to be called?

It's how some indigenous Australians refer to themselves, yes. That page I linked to is written by an indigenous writer writing on an indigenous website. As a whitefulla I doubt that I would make many friends if I called an indigenous person that to their face.