AngusMcAnus [he/him] to main • 4 years agoremember when snl made a white actor play obama in blackface and the libs didn't careexternal-linkmessage-square42 fedilinkarrow-up176file-text
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minus-squareRem [she/her]hexbear11·edit-24 years agoYeah I don't mean so much having a fictional character do blackface where it's portrayed as offesnvie and racist in the fiction so much as just... doing blackface. link
minus-squareS4ck [none/use name]hexbear5·4 years agoThat's why I think RDJ in Tropic Thunder is fine. The joke is clearly about how offensive and inappropriate blackface is. link
minus-squareRem [she/her]hexbear5·4 years agoWhen will Leonardo Dicaprio denounce the horrific comments he made in Django Unchained Unjerk: Tarantino writing a part for himself to play in Pulp Fiction where he just says the n word a bunch is still pretty sus link
Yeah I don't mean so much having a fictional character do blackface where it's portrayed as offesnvie and racist in the fiction so much as just... doing blackface.
That's why I think RDJ in Tropic Thunder is fine. The joke is clearly about how offensive and inappropriate blackface is.
When will Leonardo Dicaprio denounce the horrific comments he made in Django Unchained
Unjerk: Tarantino writing a part for himself to play in Pulp Fiction where he just says the n word a bunch is still pretty sus