[Oling_Roachinen]

A not-insignificant portion of a minority group that has long been discriminated against finds the act of wearing makeup to appear black as offensive. Doing so unaware of that is ignorance and best left to be a teaching moment (as hopefully this case ends up being). Doing so in-spite of knowing that, means you're okay with offending members of a marginalized minority group for the sole purpose of a costume. That's certainly on the spectrum of racism to me.

Yeah, it's a fine line. If you don't "allow" that, should you allow white people to wear dreads? An Asian inspired prom dress? Eat tacos?

I just grew up where it was a common belief not to wear blackface, exaggerated or not, and if you did you realized it could be seen as offensive and took the heat for it. If you don't want to appear offensive, insensitive or racist, all you have to do is not put on black makeup, so to me, this has always been a non-issue.

But I can certainly appreciate the argument that there was no ill-intent or malicious in doing blackface, but that doesn't mean it won't be seen as offensive by certain groups or people. I'll just not be able to wrap my head around people who feel the need to tell minorities what is and isn't offensive to them and tell them that they lack critical thinking skills if they disagree with me.