You probably have, actually. The fact that you don't remember it or notice it is a testament to your dignity that you don't dwell on such things. It might've been more obvious to me, growing up in the South where the racial population can often be predominantly black. I've absolutely been the only white person in the room and faced discrimination because of it. That's okay. Never let it get to me. They don't hate me, they just hate my doggy style.
The best thing you can do is avoid criticizing people you don't know for doing things you wouldn't do on behalf of people who aren't you. When people say that diversity is our strength, they are literally talking about the conflict between differences. Diversity is meaningless if people agree, so let that conflict play out once in a while.
A time none of us experienced personally, and of which, we have a very one sided viewpoint that has been warped by generations of activists. We've "flanderized" the past and created a cartoon version of it without context or perspective, cherry picking individual bits and applying them as generalizations. If you actually read things that were written during this time period, like P.G. Wodehouse, you'll walk away with a very different impression than you get from the way that time period is described by activists today.
Not only is this wrong, it's stupid.
Then let's change today's climate of culture into something more reasonable.
Maybe in the US, I don't think it's an "issue" anywhere else.
But you can do black makeup without blackface. It's pretty easy too, just don't use it to make fun of or humiliate people.
It's part of it but not the actual definition, no? Blackface is meant to accentuate facial features in a racist manner. Paint is part of caricature but it's not what gives it's meaning.
Shouldn't this be the end of the discussion?
Oh, so you remember the outrage when Fischer Stevens played an Indian man in Short Circuit? Or when a couple of the Wayans brothers played White Chicks? Or Jimmy Kimmel as Karl Malone? Dave Chapelle as a bunch of white people? Fallon as Chris Rock on SNL? John Wayne as Genghis Khan? Half the characters in Cloud Atlas? Jake Gyllenhall as the Prince of Persia? Johnny Depp as Tonto in The Lone Ranger? Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder? Charlton Heston in Touch of Evil?
What that even means?
If you are cosplaying a black skin you should use makeup to simulate your skin black.
So why you continue to perpetuate the drama?
No but. Just stop there. End of the discussion. See? Wasn't that easy?
Well, I'd like to see people stop getting preemptively offended on behalf of people who aren't offended.
Your right of free expression (nothing presumed about it) is literally protected by the first amendment, and it has been repeatedly ruled to exist while offending others. One might even argue that it's the only time it really needs protection, and thus the first amendment is essentially a defense of offense.
Crossplay meas you need to try to be most close possible to the character you choose.
There is no but... you are right in that few works after that there is nothing else to say.
So do you prefer to be oppressed than fighting against the oppression lol
That's another discussion for another time, but if you want to drop by the Politics subforum and try to explain to me how you see the freedom of expression, I'd be more than happy to help you through your delusions.
Society doesn't give a shit about some streamer. This was Twitch and a small, insignificant group of dogmatic and perpetually offended douchebags declaring themselves to be the sole arbiters of taste and morality. These people are dangerous, they are psychotic, and worst of all, they are idiots. Society doesn't care. Dangerous, psychotic idiots care.
Since I'm typing on a computer sending my words through the internet onto a public message board, I'm going to say... maybe?
You never understood me, Dad!
I only dismiss the retarded stuff.
Good thing I represent and speak for all of society right? God I wish I lived your life where anything I say is actually law.
Discrimination against black people is world wide. It's not just a North America thing.
Yeap.... it is sad and hilarious at the same time.
Black face is a north american thing, the USA didnt want to hire black actors so white actor had to portray black persons. Or they just mocked black persons by exaggerating white faces. Black face is a cultural thing, a very USA thing.
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Apparently you're the one oblivious to the fact that black face isn't a thing in the majority of the world. Are you seriously saying that not knowing about blackface means you're entitled?
Why she couldn't like or choose a black character to crossplay?
She has learned a wrong lesson? Something she should never learn to begin with.
I guess we are doing this then. Let's go back and check out what you originally said.
Okay, let's start from the top. The first amendment does not give you the right of expression - that is considered to be an inborn right of all humans, the first amendment merely protects it from the government. As such, this right has been repeatedly tried and found to exist, even in privately owned places which also serve in the public interest (specifically Marsh v Alabama). So, on the first part, yeah, the right of expression is protected primarily by the first amendment
What the issue with painting your face? C'mon.
The issue is people used to do it while mocking black people they hung from trees or whipped to death
So the mocking/bullying is a issue... not the crossplay... fight against that.
I'm brasilian... there is no issue dressing like black famous characters here.
