No blackfaces allowed.

BattleCorp · 03-11-2013 01:19PM #1

http://news.sky.com/story/1162816/blackface-costumes-lead-to-school-suspensions

White guys dress up at a Halloween party as the Jamaican bobsleigh team from Cool Runnings and get suspended from work because they went "blackface".

For fcuk sake. Over the top or what?

MagicMarker · 03-11-2013 01:22PM

Hey, I know, let's dress up as a black person for Halloween.

Utterly fùckin moronic.

BattleCorp · 03-11-2013 01:23PM

MagicMarker wrote: »

Hey, I know, let's dress up as a black person for Halloween.

Utterly fùckin moronic.

What's moronic, the suspension from work or the fact that they dressed up as black people?

smcgiff · 03-11-2013 01:24PM

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General General · 03-11-2013 01:24PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

MagicMarker wrote: »

Hey, I know, let's dress up as a black person for Halloween.

Utterly fùckin moronic.

What's moronic, the suspension from work or the fact that they dressed up as black people?

Who's on first base, what's the guy's name on second...

smcgiff · 03-11-2013 01:24PM

MagicMarker wrote: »

Hey, I know, let's dress up as a black person for Halloween.

Utterly fùckin moronic.

But they dressed up as characters that were black. BIG difference.

What next, can't dress up as green witches for fear of offending WICCA practitioners?

Shanotheslayer · 03-11-2013 01:25PM

MagicMarker wrote: »

Hey, I know, let's dress up as a black person for Halloween.

Utterly fùckin moronic.

Not as moronic as that post.

Friend Computer · 03-11-2013 01:25PM

smcgiff wrote: »

But they dressed up as characters that were black. BIG difference.

Because blackface, specifically, has absolutely no racist connotations. Nope. None at all.

This is going to be one of those threads so I'm just going to say that now before it goes down the tubes.

Festy · 03-11-2013 01:25PM

hfallada · 03-11-2013 01:27PM

Remember its only racist when a majorly dress and acts like a minority. Like the film white chicks isn't racist, but if there was a 90 min film on a white person, dressing and acting like a black person there would be up roar.

o1s1n · 03-11-2013 01:27PM

Cindy Marten, superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District, announced the suspensions with officials from the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Anti-Defamation League.

National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People?

That name is more backwards than going blackface.

Friend Computer · 03-11-2013 01:28PM

Is there a long history of black people dressing in caricatures of white people? Oh no, sorry, don't let the facts get in the way of the usual whataboutery.

smcgiff · 03-11-2013 01:29PM

Friend Computer wrote: »

This is going to be one of those threads so I'm just going to say that now before it goes down the tubes.

What, insanely PC?

So, you want to dress up as the characters of Cool runnings, what do you do?

You could say there are millions of white characters they could dress up as, but why the restriction?

Ush1 · 03-11-2013 01:30PM

Friend Computer wrote: »

Because blackface, specifically, has absolutely no racist connotations. Nope. None at all.

This is going to be one of those threads so I'm just going to say that now before it goes down the tubes.

The main thing is you got your condesending comment in early.

Cantona's Collars · 03-11-2013 01:30PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Cindy Marten, superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District, announced the suspensions with officials from the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Anti-Defamation League.

National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People?

That name is more backwards than going blackface.

Sounds like something out of South Park.

Turtyturd · 03-11-2013 01:31PM

hfallada wrote: »

Remember its only racist when a majorly dress and acts like a minority. Like the film white chicks isn't racist, but if there was a 90 min film on a white person, dressing and acting like a black person there would be up roar.

But that was dressing up as specific white people which is completely differe....eh never mind.

WindSock · 03-11-2013 01:32PM

Having black skin is not a costume to mock. It's not unlike sticking tape over your eyes to make them slanty.

And let's forget about that abomination of a film 'White Chicks'.

cooperguy · 03-11-2013 01:32PM

They were dressing as a character from a film, I really cant see the issue. They were in no way (from what I can see) trying to imply Black people are inferior.

drumswan · 03-11-2013 01:32PM

hfallada wrote: »

Remember its only racist when a majorly dress and acts like a minority. Like the film white chicks isn't racist, but if there was a 90 min film on a white person, dressing and acting like a black person there would be up roar.

Tropical thunder

smcgiff · 03-11-2013 01:32PM

Friend Computer wrote: »

Is there a long history of black people dressing in caricatures of white people? Oh no, sorry, don't let the facts get in the way of the usual whataboutery.

Do you think the characters from a successful film that showed the characters in a positive light to be caricatures?

Hande hoche! · 03-11-2013 01:32PM

San Diego has a bobsled team.

WindSock · 03-11-2013 01:34PM

hfallada wrote: »

Remember its only racist when a majorly dress and acts like a minority. Like the film white chicks isn't racist, but if there was a 90 min film on a white person, dressing and acting like a black person there would be up roar.

8 Mile?

Muise... · 03-11-2013 01:36PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw

(It's ethnically ethical for me to post this.

)

BattleCorp · 03-11-2013 01:37PM

WindSock wrote: »

Having black skin is not a costume to mock. It's not unlike sticking tape over your eyes to make them slanty.

How were black people mocked? The lads went dressed up as characters from a film, who happened to be black.

Friend Computer · 03-11-2013 01:37PM

Ush1 wrote: »

The main thing is you got your condesending comment in early.

And you got your thankswhoring comment in too! Not to mention the passive-aggresive smiley! Well aren't you just swell?

smcgiff wrote: »

Do you think the characters from a successful film that showed the characters in a positive light to be caricatures?

What? I wasn't talking about the film, I was pointing out that blackface is caricaturing black people and has a history attached to it which can't be applied to white people because there's no similar history of caricatures.

mikemac1 · 03-11-2013 01:40PM

The Lyons tea minstrel turned Ireland into a nation of flamin racists!

Except the Corkonians, they only drink Barrys

aaakev · 03-11-2013 01:40PM

I wemt to a hallloween party a few years ago as Mr. T. I dressed as him from the snickers ad and it never crossed my mimd someone would think it was racist

Pc gone crazy...

suicide_circus · 03-11-2013 01:41PM

You're my wife now!!!

DEFTLEFTHAND · 03-11-2013 01:42PM

Can you imagine if PG Wodehouse released his acclaimed books of Bertie Wooster today? I don't think the story of Bertie and the 'N' minstrels would have gone down to well. :pac:

humbert · 03-11-2013 01:42PM

Nothing malicious or racist in the intent. Simply 'blacking up' in any form has been categorised as racist and to consider individual cases would be much to difficult.

smcgiff · 03-11-2013 01:42PM

There is a tendency for people to go out of their way to get offended on their own behalf or on behalf of others *cough* see this thread for example.

In the film Cloud Atlas there's a central theme of characters going throughout history and being affected by their previous actions. The same actors played themselves as different characters throughout several hundred years.

There was disquiet by some in Korea when a European character played his Korean character.

Pathetic stuff really.

No blackfaces allowed.

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