RE: Is blackface always offensive?
April 20, 2019 at 3:45 pm
(This post was last modified: April 20, 2019 at 3:47 pm by paulpablo.)
Most things are always offensive.
To answer the question in a more specific, realistic way though, it's not always offensive.
A UK sitcom called Peep Show has used black face in a scene and not only do most people not find it offensive I'm sure I watched a top 100 best moments in comedy thing and this black face scene was voted number 1.
The general idea of the scene is that Jeremy has a new kinky girlfriend who wants to always push boundaries and it escalates to her asking him to wear black face and imagine himself as a black man fucking his own mother, which is funny enough to me to make me LOL even as I'm typing this.
I think it depends on how it's used. I can't imagine anyone able minded thinking that using black face in an un ironic way, in the context it was used decades ago, wouldn't be offensive to people. So it's put in that allocation of things that if people do it they must be doing it on purpose just to insult people rather than for entertainment. But then people will do it to be offensive and say its just being ironic, im sure some people do it attempting to be ironic but it gets judged to be offensive, some people probably got offended by the peep show scene.
To answer the question in a more specific, realistic way though, it's not always offensive.
A UK sitcom called Peep Show has used black face in a scene and not only do most people not find it offensive I'm sure I watched a top 100 best moments in comedy thing and this black face scene was voted number 1.
The general idea of the scene is that Jeremy has a new kinky girlfriend who wants to always push boundaries and it escalates to her asking him to wear black face and imagine himself as a black man fucking his own mother, which is funny enough to me to make me LOL even as I'm typing this.
I think it depends on how it's used. I can't imagine anyone able minded thinking that using black face in an un ironic way, in the context it was used decades ago, wouldn't be offensive to people. So it's put in that allocation of things that if people do it they must be doing it on purpose just to insult people rather than for entertainment. But then people will do it to be offensive and say its just being ironic, im sure some people do it attempting to be ironic but it gets judged to be offensive, some people probably got offended by the peep show scene.
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