(February 13, 2019 at 4:37 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Oh I know right, it's so incredibly presumptuous of me to assert that blackface might be offensive. Jury's still out on that.Times change and standards and mores change. For the better, we hope, but no guarantees.
There was a time when many black performers themselves performed in blackface.
Where and when I grew up, the word "queer" used to be considered as offensive as what most people these days refer to as "the N-word". Yet I hear the "Q-word" on the radio nearly every day, even on NPR.
There are people I know right now who would consider your earlier comment:
"Hell, michael jackson dressed like micheal jackson without blackface."
...to be racist. I don't, because I considered it in the context in which it was made.
If 30-40 year old mistakes are only to be judged out of context by contemporary standards, and if every mistake is a life sentence, then we should all be locked up for the duration.
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Dr H
"So, I became an anarchist, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
Dr H
"So, I became an anarchist, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
