RE: Do you think this makeup artist making a white girl black is racist?
June 5, 2017 at 4:39 pm
I dislike the term cultural appropriation as a pejorative. World history is one great big cultural appropriation. I do not care if people of African ancestry straighten their hair or cook Mexican. I do not care if white men get afros and play jazz. I don't care if rich people play folk music, or poor people play classical. Everyone gets to science. Everyone gets to write poetry and novels in any style. Everyone gets to alter their look. Everyone gets to join any profession. Gringos can cook Mexican and Mexicans can cook French. Germans can paint Japanese.
So no, I don't object to this makeup.
What I do sometimes object to to is donning another culture to ridicule it. When do I object? Depends on whether I personally think the culture ridiculed is objectionable. I'm happy to see Nazis ridiculed. I don't like to see old time black-face.
As a matter of free speach it's all good whether I like it or not.
So no, I don't object to this makeup.
What I do sometimes object to to is donning another culture to ridicule it. When do I object? Depends on whether I personally think the culture ridiculed is objectionable. I'm happy to see Nazis ridiculed. I don't like to see old time black-face.
As a matter of free speach it's all good whether I like it or not.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
