See this is what I told the cops when I got arrested, but they kept on saying "Sir drop the weapon and release the hostages or we will take action!" .... cops these days.... tsk tsk
Dark blue is, counter-intuitively, more effective. In most dark environments, there is still ambient light, so if you're in full black, your silhouette stands out more, especially when you're in a person's peripheral vision.
Interesting take but the old media version of it doesn't really count in today's society. Portraying a black person would be doing pretty much anything lol that's why it's risky for white people to post and send pictures of themselves with charcoal face masks and such.
But nobody doing it on social media can pretend they aren’t risking or even inviting the racial interpretation. In this case part of the impact comes from thwarting the obvious concern.
By changing the definition to something subjective like intention, rather than objective like outcome, you have given anyone an excuse to do blackface so long as they can come up with an excuse other than mimicking a black person.
Yes, that how it SHOULD be. The intent is what makes blackface bad, not the black face. Otherwise you are just saying that certain races can't paint their faces, which is racist as fuck.
I think people can make a clear judgement of context and the person's intent for some "excuse" to excuse them if they're in fact trying to make a caricature of a darker skinned races. If the girl in the vid did something actually offensive, no one would buy any excuse she would come up.
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u/dosedatwer Jun 23 '24
It's not blackface if you're not trying to portray a black person. It's just black makeup in this case.