"Blackface" Discussion

I remember a co-worker telling me a few years back that he blacked up for a fancy dress party.
"who did you go as?" I asked.
"...just a black man." he said.
It took me a few seconds to process that one.
 
iammemphis said:
Is there a difference in your opinion when a black woman is cast as Ariel in the live action “The Little Mermaid”?
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Yes. It was hilarious watching people losing their minds over a black Ariel.
 
2 man midfield said:
I remember a co-worker telling me a few years back that he blacked up for a fancy dress party.
"who did you go as?" I asked.
"...just a black man." he said.
It took me a few seconds to process that one.
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Just wow.
 
entropy said:
Some real cringe-worthy posts in this thread. So much mental gymnastics to defend an insanely rich athlete who did everything in his power to not go to jail. Just incredible.
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Edgar Allan Pillow said:
I can't help but shake my head at some of these antics. How do these marketing people justify their pay!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51399355

Books pulled over 'literary blackface' accusations



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2 man midfield said:
Even ignoring the blackface thing, it's a little weird. If you read a book and need a character to be the same colour as you before you can relate to them, then what's going on?
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This is not blackface. This is race swapping characters which companies like marvel and other movie studios do all the time. I personally hate it as it's lazy and pandering but it's not blackface in the meaning of blackface. Fictional characters can be any colour which is an argument for doing it.
 
A complete dickhead from my school dressed up in blackface and a suit for one of those stupid 'dress offensive' nights at university. A few pictures of him looking sickeningly smug were uploaded to Facebook and deleted within a few hours. Unfortunately for him I screenshotted them all. If he gets famous/successful they're getting leaked
 
P-Ro said:
A complete dickhead from my school dressed up in blackface and a suit for one of those stupid 'dress offensive' nights at university. A few pictures of him looking sickeningly smug were uploaded to Facebook and deleted within a few hours. Unfortunately for him I screenshotted them all. If he gets famous/successful they're getting leaked
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:lol:
 
A fair amount of blackface in the Mighty Boosh too. Not that many people will re-watch it.
 
Shane88 said:
It's Always Sunny has a few instances of blackface. I hope Netflix don't get any ideas about that.
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Context wise though, its acknowledging the crassness of it and how ridiculous they look doing it. Same as Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder
 
I guess we'll never get to see Come Fly With Me again? :( That show as hilarious. No more Precious Little and Taj Manzoor.
 
The little Britain one is weird, since there was no reason to make the character black in the first place.

Leigh Francis apologised for his own blackface a couple days ago. At least with Bo Selecta it was sort of necessary. If he’s trying to make a mask look like Trisha or Mel B, it needs to look like them. Not saying it was right, but it made sense from that point of view. With LB they could have just had Walliam’s character in a white fat suit the same as Lucas’s and nothing would’ve changed.
 
It's so weird seeing David Walliams and (particularly) Matt Lucas have their opinions on Twitter, and then seeing the characters they thought up in Little Britain and come fly with me.

Such a complete mismatch. I guess some time has passed since.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Yeah, it hasn’t aged well. There’s a massive backlash against the “I’m a laydee” stuff from trans activists too.
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Things move on quickly don’t they. I didn’t bat an eyelid at any of this stuff at the time, and it was only 10-15 years ago.
 
Is Catherine Tate going to be next with her Derek character, I wonder?
 
Is Bo Selecta seen as offensive as little Britain? I’ve not seen it in years but always thought it was just taking the piss out of celebrities?

little Britain hasn’t aged well at all but I wouldn’t put bo selecta in that league.
 
Heardy said:
Is Bo Selecta seen as offensive as little Britain? I’ve not seen it in years but always thought it was just taking the piss out of celebrities?

little Britain hasn’t aged well at all but I wouldn’t put bo selecta in that league.
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Trisha called Leigh Francis out for hypocrisy after he voiced support for BLM. He apologised, and that’s as far as I read.
 
GDaly95 said:
It's so weird seeing David Walliams and (particularly) Matt Lucas have their opinions on Twitter, and then seeing the characters they thought up in Little Britain and come fly with me.

Such a complete mismatch. I guess some time has passed since.
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They've been talking about bringing Little Britain back recently as well, at least starting with radio. Have to wonder how many, if any, of their characters would survive the rabid activism of today. I don't mean the blackface ones, obviously.
 
The world is definetly heading into the wrong direction. :lol:

Just had to google what Antoine did 3 years ago, because of the reactions i saw here i thought it must have been something scandalous.... and it was just a picture of him dressed as a black basketball player?! This world really has become way too sensitive. I don't like it. Not at all.


edit: I made some research now about the past of 'blackfacing'. Now i get it a little bit, but i still think it's stupid to be this sensitive if it is obvious that someone who does it has no bad intentions.
 
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Its looks quite bad now, but let's remember they were taking the p*ss out of all races, and gay people. Comedy will be going down hill if we are not allowed to laugh at anything anymore.

I can understand this one more than Bo selecta though.
 
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RedPed said:
Yeah, I know this is the Blackface thread but it won't be long before they move onto depictions of gay characters, I guess.
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You'd think gay characters should be able to survive. I mean, I understand why it might be offensive for a white person to portray a black person. But a straight person playing a gay person? That's basically what acting is, isn't it? Pretending to be something you're not?
 
fergies coat said:
Its looks quite bad now, but let's remember they were taking the p*ss out of all races, and gay people. Comedy will be going down hill if we are not allowed to laugh at anything anymore.

I can understand this one more than Bo selecta though.
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The gay stuff in Little Britain was more well done, I'd say. Lucas is gay in real life which makes it more acceptable for a start, and the audience were only ever laughing at his character and how absurd he was. The rest of the characters around him were all played 'straight' if you'll pardon the pun!
 
I watched the scene from Airplane where the old white woman translates jive with the two black passengers. Is that Ok or not?

Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer did blackface for their Otis Redding sketches too.
 
fergies coat said:
Its looks quite bad now, but let's remember they were taking the p*ss out of all races, and gay people. Comedy will be going down hill if we are not allowed to laugh at anything anymore.

I can understand this one more than Bo selecta though.
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I hate that excuse. Racism should be allowed if the person is mocking other races too
 
Grinner said:
I watched the scene from Airplane where the old white woman translates jive with the two black passengers. Is that Ok or not?

Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer did blackface for their Otis Redding sketches too.
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I'd say that's okay, I still find it hilarious.
I don't see it as being racist, just a comedic moment featuring a granny who shouldn't know the lingo.
As for blackface, it's fecking deplorable in any situation.
 
"How would they feel if we pulled down a statue of Mohammed, eh?"
Twitter to me just proves that the right wing has the snowiest and the flakiest snowflakes I swear down
 
OutlawGER said:
The world is definetly heading into the wrong direction. :lol:

Just had to google what Antoine did 3 years ago, because of the reactions i saw here i thought it must have been something scandalous.... and it was just a picture of him dressed as a black basketball player?! This world really has become way too sensitive. I don't like it. Not at all.


edit: I made some research now about the past of 'blackfacing'. Now i get it a little bit, but i still think it's stupid to be this sensitive if it is obvious that someone who does it has no bad intentions.
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I'm not really sure that you do.
 
Wolverine said:
"How would they feel if we pulled down a statue of Mohammed, eh?"
Twitter to me just proves that the right wing has the snowiest and the flakiest snowflakes I swear down
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Defending the right to keep a racist statue aside, they do make an interesting point. If we're re-evaluating the morals of everyone we seem to hold in higher regard, should Mohammed be exempt? I'm not saying yes or no, but I hadn't really thought of that.
 
2 man midfield said:
Defending the right to keep a racist statue aside, they do make an interesting point. If we're re-evaluating the morals of everyone we seem to hold in higher regard, should Mohammed be exempt? I'm not saying yes or no, but I hadn't really thought of that.
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Muslims wouldn't mind if there were no statues of Mohammed, that was the joke.
 
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