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Originally Posted by nobles_point
What Trudeau did was dumb and clueless but not malicious. If any blackface is so important to you why don’t you crusade after Robert Downey Jr. for his role in Tropic Thunder, or boycott Ironman movies?
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Because I'm not easily offended.
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Originally Posted by nobles_point
For further context, the cultural appropriation of blackface has it’s roots in Minstrel Shows.
These were burlesque or comedy shows that used white people in blackface to appropriate black people as lazy or dim-witted. That’s why it is repulsive and racist. Coming into context with this act is clueless, dumb, and offensive. However, the repugnance of minstrel shows is not anywhere close to what Trudeau was doing. |
I provided a link to give context to why black face is considered racist a few pages back.
It's fine if you want to claim Trudeau's black face was the most innocent kind of black face. Just hope you're as charitable towards other's mistakes as you are Trudeau. If a highly educated and privileged person like Trudeau can make such a mistake and be forgiven, then maybe we have room to forgive those who don't necessarily align with our political views. Or at the very least step back and recognize our own fallibility and think twice before casting the first stone.