It was a very popular show in its time. I guess in today's pc world most of the country would have been deemed racist for watching it.
Is 'blacking up' racist?
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It was a very popular show in its time. I guess in today's pc world most of the country would have been deemed racist for watching it.
Entertainment.
Eddie Murphy acted as an oriental person Norbit. He also played a Jewish man in coming to America.
Both cool movies lol
Calling someone black or white as a descriptive terminology isn't racist at all, it's an obvious and perfectly normal way of narrowing down who you are referring to when the need arises.
Would you take offense at being called the ginger lad if you were ginger? Or the big lad if you were the tallest in your group?
Stop being so offended at things that aren't offensive.
As for blacking up, obviously there are going to be some people who find it distasteful, but the vast majority of free thinking and educated people will understand that you're just in fancy dress.
Would you take offense at being called the ginger lad if you were ginger? Or the big lad if you were the tallest in your group?
Stop being so offended at things that aren't offensive.
As for blacking up, obviously there are going to be some people who find it distasteful, but the vast majority of free thinking and educated people will understand that you're just in fancy dress.
Whhaaat??
How would that be racist? Good heavens, everyone sooooo afraid to offend a poor idiot that more than likely would be offended by everything anyway. I would not give a second thought to this. Just do it and to hell with offending liberal dykes and darkies with too much time on their hands. The intelligent ones with no personal issues will laugh with you anyway.
Just remember the KFC bucket on your head and Beatz around your ears
How would that be racist? Good heavens, everyone sooooo afraid to offend a poor idiot that more than likely would be offended by everything anyway. I would not give a second thought to this. Just do it and to hell with offending liberal dykes and darkies with too much time on their hands. The intelligent ones with no personal issues will laugh with you anyway.
Just remember the KFC bucket on your head and Beatz around your ears
I don't think so - but as has already been mentioned, Racism is subjective and dependant on the person. Some may find it offensive, others couldn't care less...
I wouldn't have any problem with someone "whiting" up for fancy dress
That's because you don't have deep personal issues and self hatred.
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Although it's in "public" it is an event with a closed end party (albeit with people I don't know). I don't think I'd black up if we were going out to a random club, as although I along with most people don't think it's racist, you know what chavs are like and they'll use any excuse to start a fight.
Oh, and no, I don't have any black friends.
Although it's in "public" it is an event with a closed end party (albeit with people I don't know). I don't think I'd black up if we were going out to a random club, as although I along with most people don't think it's racist, you know what chavs are like and they'll use any excuse to start a fight.
Oh, and no, I don't have any black friends.
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I think you'll find it's about what you look like...
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- Disagree a bit here, this to me sounds more like a prejudice. Being racist would be not allowing some one with different genetic traits to you from partaking in public/communual activities (e.g. Not allowing a Dark coloured / ginger haired human to get on the same bus as you because you think they are not good enough for it).
However the core concept of 'Racism' is so over stretched these days, especially in the UK, that it seems to cover anything and everything due to over sensitivity of small minorities that seem to persuade the larger minorities it is in the wrong. I see community groups such as 'Black Womens Support Group' where no paler skinned women etc. can enter, but I have never seen a 'White Women Support Group' as this is deemed as 'Racist' yet the former is not???
In regards to the origional post, dressing up for an event in any way is fine. You should be okay unless you specifially dress up in a manor that in history has proven to cause suffering/hate/negative provocations to a specific group of individuals. (e.g. Dressing up in white bed sheets and a cross when going to an event/ going to china as a nuke missle etc.) Be smart, dress up and get into the role of your character and most of all have fun, ignore idiots that think 'your racist' just for dressing up.
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I blacked up as Mr T for a halloween party a few years back and my black friend went as a ghost and put white make up on to the same party.
I don't think in the context of a halloween party or something like that it would be classed as racist. That's my own personal views on it.
I don't think in the context of a halloween party or something like that it would be classed as racist. That's my own personal views on it.
I thought black people preferred to be called black? I always thought it was coloured that people didn't like, or medium brown rofl.
LMFAO @ medium brown.
The next black person I see I'm going to ask them if they would be more offended being referred to as black or medium brown. I will report back.
lol
LMFAO @ medium brown.
The next black person I see I'm going to ask them if they would be more offended being referred to as black or medium brown. I will report back.
lol
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It depends on how specific you need to be.
As a (very light skinned) mixed race guy from a predominantly black/mixed family, I find the politically correct oversensitivity of white people when it comes to perceived racism hilarious.
Maybe I'm racist?
In what way is it offensive?
I'm glad the police don't share this view. lol
I refuse to believe that you don't understand what an accurate description of a person's appearance is and therefore find it hilarious. Even if you've been blind from birth, you should have some understanding of the concepts involved.
Note the context - key words are "accurate", "description" and "appearance".
Is the idea of appearance really so alien to you?
Do you also not understand the difference between describing a person's appearance and assigning them (the whole of them, not just their appearance) to a group that isn't really a group at all?
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Context...
http://i.istockimg.com/file_thumbvi...oto-9142476-nazarenos-during-semana-santa.jpg
Who are these people then?
...it's all about the context.
I bet if ten people were given the paints with which they could mix "medium brown" and were told to do it they wouldn't all come out the same colour.
I just think medium brown is a lot less descriptive than....
Black
Indian
White
Asian
etc
I have never ever heard anyone describe someone as medium brown, medium well done or otherwise probably because it is weird.
/edit if I had been blind from birth I definitely wouldn't know what you mean by medium brown lol
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