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Is blackface always offensive?
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RE: Is blackface always offensive?
April 19, 2019 at 1:33 pm
Just because snowflakes are offended, doesn't mean that something is offensive.
Context has significance.
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RE: Is blackface always offensive?
April 19, 2019 at 1:33 pm (This post was last modified: April 19, 2019 at 1:35 pm by 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.
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RE: Is blackface always offensive?
April 19, 2019 at 1:44 pm (This post was last modified: April 19, 2019 at 1:49 pm by robvalue.)
Hmm, never mind.
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RE: Is blackface always offensive?
April 19, 2019 at 1:48 pm
And yet, you don't.
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RE: Is blackface always offensive?
April 19, 2019 at 1:55 pm
What? Was that aimed at me?
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RE: Is blackface always offensive?
April 19, 2019 at 1:56 pm
(April 19, 2019 at 1:33 pm)no one Wrote: 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.
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RE: Is blackface always offensive?
April 19, 2019 at 2:00 pm
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.
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RE: Is blackface always offensive?
April 19, 2019 at 2:15 pm




And that is all I have to say about that.
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RE: Is blackface always offensive?
April 19, 2019 at 2:16 pm
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.

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RE: Is blackface always offensive?
April 19, 2019 at 2:32 pm
[Image: icon_quote.jpg]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?
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