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Originally Posted by MattyC
I think it's harmful to fighting racism in general. Eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind and all that. If we're going to try and eradicate racism from our culture, it has to mean ALL racism. Allowing it to happen against whites for humour purposes is not really harmful (just like it wasn't for RDJ in Tropic Thunder, or maybe it wasn't. I'm not black so I can't say if it was or not. But it was funny, I know that much.), but it is still racism, and none of it is OK.
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I don't know. You could maybe say it was anti-white bigorty (I think it's just satire), but it's missing the systemic element that's really the biggest component of racism. It might sound like semantics, but it gets tiring when people bring up White Chicks as an example of the horrors of racism faced by white people. It's so inconsequential that it really has no business being brought in to muddy the waters of any discussion of racism, and comes off as incredibly disingenuous.