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Anyone who thinks you can do this and come out unscathed is a damn fool. Her thought process may have been clever but her entire team suffered, which made it one of the dumbest things she could have done.
Sorry, I find these kinds of things as dumb as fake outrage about shoelaces and watermelon costumes on black children.
But as a white guy who just wants to be left the F alone already by SJW idiocy and targeting - I know the only way to get that is to quit poking the bear.
White people: You cannot wear black face makeup without negative repercussions because of the historical context of blackface.
You would be well-served to learn this.
It wasn't even blackface. Blackface is where you deliberately have a caricature face with exaggerated features to poke fun of black people's appearance in a minstrel show that purposefully degrades black people.
Notice the exaggerated lips to mock the appearance of blacks.
She had no exaggerated anything - she replicated the actor as accurately as possible and she had no intent to degrade black people.
There was a Hollywood movie called "white chicks" where black men dressed up as white girls with what you might describe as "whiteface" but was accurate as possible.
If that movie is acceptable, how is it unacceptable for a white girl to dress up as the black actor himself who dressed up as a "white chick?" And then to even talk of suspension and/or expulsion.
Does this mean that a non-black child could never dress up as Barack Obama, Neil deGrasse-Tyson, or Michael Jordan know matter how accurate and admiring their Halloween costume is?
It wasn't even blackface. Blackface is where you deliberately have a caricature face with exaggerated features to poke fun of black people's appearance in a minstrel show that purposefully degrades black people.
Notice the exaggerated lips to mock the appearance of blacks.
She had no exaggerated anything - she replicated the actor as accurately as possible and she had no intent to degrade black people.
There was a Hollywood movie called "white chicks" where black men dressed up as white girls with what you might describe as "whiteface" but was accurate as possible.
If that movie is acceptable, how is it unacceptable for a white girl to dress up as the black actor himself who dressed up as a "white chick?" And then to even talk of suspension and/or expulsion.
Does this mean that a non-black child could never dress up as Barack Obama, Neil deGrasse-Tyson, or Michael Jordan know matter how accurate and admiring their costume is?
I didn’t say it was blackface. (I know what blackface is, thank you.) I called it black face makeup. White people should not wear black face makeup if they don’t want to deal with the negativity that comes with it. The negativity comes from the history of blackface. Black face makeup is likened to blackface.
Is that clear?
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