Keeping up with the Markles

Digital Blackface. Wtf is the world coming too.

If someone is smart and comes up with a great idea.I always think of this.

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How the hell is that racist?
 
Lysander said:
As if there wasn't enough drama, here comes Charlie Hebdo with its new cover:

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LOL, I think that's brilliant.

The French generally don't give a **** about US identity politics or indeed UK or US hypersensitivity surrounding race. There is nothing racist about the publication of that cartoon image itself but the association made is such a holy cow at the moment that merely using it has caused some hysterical outrage on Twitter.

I remember when a popular leftwing, pro-Bernie (but no time for woke nonsense/identity politics) Twitter account did a similar thing with Kamal Harris photoshopped as Chauvin, she deliberately cropped the bottom of the image so Floyd wasn't included and it was intended as a criticism of Kamala given her past behaviour as a prosecutor or "Top Cop". People went absolutely nuts over it, she had to lock her account for a day or two. I think the tweet has since been deleted but really she should have kept it as it would be a cool NFT to mint now!
 
200sols said:
I do hope we don't have any people commiting the crime of digital blackface on here.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/entert...w/news-story/8029c9c4b1e4da6890e94c797eb312c6
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It’s nuanced but I do soooort of get this.

Many of the memes using black people are on some level perpetuating stereotypes of black people.

So the key question is whether perpetuating any sort of stereotype is inherently bad. I think the right answer to that is that it’s ALWAYS contextual and there can be no hard and fast rules, particularly when we are dealing with humour which is frequently expressed in bemusement, which is very complex and often defies analysis.
 
Nitefly said:
It’s nuanced but I do soooort of get this.

Many of the memes using black people are on some level perpetuating stereotypes of black people.

So the key question is whether perpetuating any sort of stereotype is inherently bad. I think the right answer to that is that it’s ALWAYS contextual and there can be no hard and fast rules, particularly when we are dealing with humour which is frequently expressed in bemusement, which is very complex and often defies analysis.
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If these memes were fakes... but they aren't for 99%.
 
Nitefly said:
Many of the memes using black people are on some level perpetuating stereotypes of black people.
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The popular ones simply use a very expressive moment and couldn't care less about stereotypes.

Then you have moments which are downright farcical to interfere with because...

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...everyone including black people likes a good laugh at stereotypes.
 
Nitefly said:
It’s nuanced but I do soooort of get this.

Many of the memes using black people are on some level perpetuating stereotypes of black people.

So the key question is whether perpetuating any sort of stereotype is inherently bad. I think the right answer to that is that it’s ALWAYS contextual and there can be no hard and fast rules, particularly when we are dealing with humour which is frequently expressed in bemusement, which is very complex and often defies analysis.
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There are memes that perpetuate against different ethnicities or gender etc, so the only way to be sure would be to ban memes all together, or is it just ones that show non white people?

Plenty of ones aimed at women, gays, lesbian, Scouse, rednecks, gingers you name it, if you were from one of thoses groups you could also claim discrimination.


Even non white people are wtf about the whole digital black facing thing.
 
im so glad ill be dead in 40 years and not have to deal with future idiocy of civilisation. I hope China Wins at Earth simulator. Then people can actually feel real oppression.
 
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