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Group of men in Dublin cause outrage by wearing blackface

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    #62
    hairyslug
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    Surely if they kept their faces white and wore that gear they would just look stupid.


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    #63
    HensVassal
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    The problem with blackface is that it's worn by white people to look like a black person whether that's a movie character or celebrity or what not, OR to look like a minstrel or gollywog but they always look like caricatures of black people so it is a bit of a piss-take.

    A white and a black guy could don suits and wigs and toy guns and go to a dress up party as Vince and Jules from Pulp Fiction, but if a white guy tried to black up and imporsonate Jules he'd look ridiculous.


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    #64
    FortySeven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭FortySeven


    ScumLord wrote: »
    I'm confused, is it racist to be black now?

    Wasn't it always?

    Let me checks my ismpedia.


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    #65
    timmy_mallet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭timmy_mallet


    FortySeven wrote: »
    timmy_mallet wrote: »
    Look, the commenters in thee After Hours board are certainly not those who should be relied upon for deciding what is and isn't racist. After all, they're frequenters of the After Hours board, for god sake.

    I disagree. Affable bunch in here, well travelled and socially savvy.

    Fell right into the trap there, son. And yet all of them here are closet racists.


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    #66
    Duggy747
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    timmy_mallet wrote: »
    Fell right into the trap there, son. And yet all of them here are closet racists.

    Quit your attitude or don't post in this thread again.


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    #67
    Ulysses Gaze
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    FortySeven wrote: »
    I disagree. Affable bunch in here, well travelled and socially savvy.

    Sometimes AH reminds me of this

    http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/a/ab/Simpsons_angry_mob.png/revision/latest?cb=20070619165229


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    #68
    [Deleted User]
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    reason vs religion wrote: »
    It's fairly universally accepted that dressing in black-face trivialises the experience of Blacks, who until relatively recently were treated as sub-human. Perhaps it's not racist, but it's certainly grossly inconsiderate and knowingly provocative.

    In America maybe but people seem to forget that we aren't in furking USA


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    #69
    FortySeven
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    timmy_mallet wrote: »
    Fell right into the trap there, son. And yet all of them here are closet racists.

    I like it when people call me son. Makes me feel young again. I may even attempt to masturbate with my new found youth.


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    #70
    darkpagandeath
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    timmy_mallet wrote: »
    blackwhim_2.jpg

    LINK.


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    #71
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
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    That fb post has to be satire surely? Else she done f*cked up with the 'white slavery' and 'fake Jews' comments.

    I don't think blackface is harmless, or funny, or right, in any context, I cringe so hard when I see it I nearly hurt myself. But it's hard to pick who's annoying me more here....


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    #72
    timmy_mallet
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    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    timmy_mallet wrote: »
    blackwhim_2.jpg

    LINK.

    A link to what?


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    #73
    darkpagandeath
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    timmy_mallet wrote: »
    A link to what?

    Your proof, Everyone knows what a mistral looks like.


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    #74
    FortySeven
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    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    Your proof, Everyone knows what a mistral looks like.

    Clearly not, that there is a minstrel. :)


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    #75
    timmy_mallet
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    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    timmy_mallet wrote: »
    A link to what?

    Your proof, Everyone knows what a mistral looks like.

    At a wish not to labour this any further - what exactly are you looking for proof of and a link to?


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    #76
    timmy_mallet
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    reason vs religion wrote: »
    It's fairly universally accepted that dressing in black-face trivialises the experience of Blacks, who until relatively recently were treated as sub-human. Perhaps it's not racist, but it's certainly grossly inconsiderate and knowingly provocative.

    In America maybe but people seem to forget that we aren't in furking USA

    I don't think blackface stops being offensive when you leave the USofA.


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    #77
    riffmongous
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    Cool Runnings costumes ok and the Valderrama one is well done.. but how do you defend the guys whose costumes consist just of black/brownface and a tshirt and jeans? Or black Roddy Piper?


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    #78
    SEPT 23 1989
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    those gentlemen look like they are having fun

    can't have that


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    #79
    HensVassal
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    I pity the fool who wears a Mr T costume.


    Shut up, fool! :p


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    #80
    darkpagandeath
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    timmy_mallet wrote: »
    At a wish not to labour this any further - what exactly are you looking for proof of and a link to?

    very obtuse, our history of black face.


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    #81
    ohnonotgmail
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    timmy_mallet wrote: »
    I don't think blackface stops being offensive when you leave the USofA.


    Offensive or racist? It is possible for it to be one but not the other.


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    #82
    The_Valeyard
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    Nothing racist or wrong with people dressing up as characters from a film, show, etc.


    Otherwise I will be outraged and triggered when a black person dresses up as Albert Einstein or Captain Kirk, bla, bla, bla.

    People just look for reasons to be offended the get attention online.


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    #83
    darkpagandeath
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    Offensive or racist? It is possible for it to be one but not the other.

    News at 11 apartheid in south Africa therefore means white people everywhere have a history of it......


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    #84
    timmy_mallet
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    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    timmy_mallet wrote: »
    At a wish not to labour this any further - what exactly are you looking for proof of and a link to?

    very obtuse, our history of black face.

    Irish people consume(d) English media, do you really need a link to be provided for that? There was even a bloody Lyons tea advert.

    What does 'our history of black face' even mean? That for someone to feel offended (or something to be deemed racist) that the nation must have had some documented past relating to it?


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    #85
    riffmongous
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    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Nothing racist or wrong with people dressing up as characters from a film, show, etc.


    Otherwise I will be outraged and triggered when a black person dresses up as Albert Einstein or Captain Kirk, bla, bla, bla.

    People just look for reasons to be offended the get attention online.

    But you can see some lads clearly didn't dress up beyond the blackface


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    #86
    timmyntc
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    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Nothing racist or wrong with people dressing up as characters from a film, show, etc.


    Otherwise I will be outraged and triggered when a black person dresses up as Albert Einstein or Captain Kirk, bla, bla, bla.

    People just look for reasons to be offended the get attention online.

    As an ethnic orange-rock-man I'm offended by people dressing up as The Thing from Fantastic Four.


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    #87
    ohnonotgmail
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    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    News at 11 apartheid in south Africa therefore means white people everywhere have a history of it......


    So its a bit like original sin then?


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    #88
    darkpagandeath
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    timmy_mallet wrote: »
    Irish people consume(d) English media, do you really need a link to be provided for that? There was even a bloody Lyons tea advert.

    What does 'our history of black face' even mean? That for someone to feel offended (or something to be deemed racist) that the nation must have had some documented past relating to it?

    So that's a no to providing a history of black face grand so.


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    #89
    timmy_mallet
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    timmy_mallet wrote: »
    I don't think blackface stops being offensive when you leave the USofA.


    Offensive or racist? It is possible for it to be one but not the other.

    Both. I don't think I'd take kindly to something telling me I shouldn't feel offended by something. And blackface is racist.


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    #90
    darkpagandeath
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    riffmongous wrote: »
    But you can see some lads clearly didn't dress up beyond the blackface

    http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/creepypasta/images/7/7d/Blackface.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120115051854

    Must have missed them in the picture.


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    #91
    ohnonotgmail
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    timmy_mallet wrote: »
    Irish people consume(d) English media, do you really need a link to be provided for that? There was even a bloody Lyons tea advert.

    What does 'our history of black face' even mean? That for someone to feel offended (or something to be deemed racist) that the nation must have had some documented past relating to it?


    the lady who posted on twitter has the right to take offence. Just like the people who read that post have the right to think thats its all nonsense.


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