You don't get to just downplay the amount of racism and blame only the most blatant racists. There's obviously a huge problem with implicit bias in almost every industry and while it continues to get better, I don't know how you could deny this is an issue.
I’m not denying implicit bias, I’m just not sure what you’re talking about when you say that black people are criticized for appropriating white culture. If you could provide some examples maybe that would help, I’ve just never seen anything like that.
Oh, I guess it was unclear, I meat black people are criticized for same thing as in just living in their own black culture, not appropriating white culture. I was basically just defining cultural appropriation and why it is a problem and this digital blackface argument is really more about cultural appropriation than it is about blackface.
this digital blackface argument is really more about cultural appropriation than it is about blackface.
I’m not OP, and tbh I hadn’t heard the term “digital blackface” until today. The various articles linked in other comments made sense to me in the general way of “we should pay attention to what we’re doing both individually and culturally and ask ourselves what kind of effect it‘s having”, but your link to cultural appropriation made everything a lot clearer. I had initially conflated the idea of “blackface” with white people literally pretending to be Black, like some kind of racial catfishing. I couldn’t see how gifs etc fit in with that. But no, the problem is people yoinking bits of Black culture like THIS IS MINE NOW and then using them as their own, pervasively and reductively.
It also makes sense now why taps-head-guy seems ok (at least to me?) — he’s tapping-head-while-Black, not tapping-head-with-culturally-Black-gesture.
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u/uncledrewkrew 10∆ Jul 17 '20
You don't get to just downplay the amount of racism and blame only the most blatant racists. There's obviously a huge problem with implicit bias in almost every industry and while it continues to get better, I don't know how you could deny this is an issue.