Is blackface always offensive?

[no one]

Just because snowflakes are offended, doesn't mean that something is offensive.
Context has significance.

[FatAndFaithless]

I know I haven't been highly engaged on the forum for a little while, but I don't remember rob being this much into the super anti-PC/SJW stuff? This and the Sargon thing, just wasn't expecting it is all.

[robvalue]

Hmm, never mind.

[SteelCurtain]

And yet, you don't.

[robvalue]

What? Was that aimed at me?

[Losty]

Just because snowflakes are offended, doesn't mean that something is offensive.
Context has significance.

I’m curious what context you think there might be where blackface wouldn’t be offensive.

[robvalue]

I don’t exactly know what’s going on here. I think people are reading a lot more into my words than I’ve actually said. I’ll be hitting the old dusty trail.

[Rev. Rye]

And that is all I have to say about that.

[onlinebiker]

I' ve found blackface funny - at times.


A couple I was friends with owned a bar. Mixed race marriage. They came to the Halloween party - she in blackface, he in whiteface - and both sorta crossdressed. They came as each other.

Fun people - with outstanding sense of humor....

[no one]

Losty:
I’m curious what context you think there might be where blackface wouldn’t be offensive.

I think you might be missing my point. I was speaking in generalities.  Just because someone takes offense to something, doesn't necessarily mean it is offensive. Even, black face. If black face was portrayed in a historical sense, it would not be offensive. It's something that used to happen, talking about it, or showing it, is not offensive. People might not like it, but so what?