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Originally Posted by Savvy27
The popularity of an argument doesn't determine its validity. What is the insult here? As far as I can tell, the offense is insensitivity. People are offended because he was insensitive to the likely reaction that they would be offended, not because he portrayed black people in some demeaning way or even Michael Jackson in any demeaning light. Blackface can certainly be used to lampoon, insult, and demean black people, but in this case it wasn't.
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When put in historical context, painting ones skin black was used to demean the African American. People still do it in a demeaning way more often than not. Bozak might not have meant any harm by it, but how are we supposed to know that he didn't do it in a demeaning way? The implications are that it's racist, doing it an innocent way is forgivable, however don't be surprised at being called racist due to the acts past. That is why it is best to avoid it all together.