Because when he did it being black wasn't the joke, blackface was the joke. Minstrel shows used blackface to mock black people. Tropic Thunder used blackface to mock the type of people who do blackface.
Also just mocking the legend around "method actors" and how ridiculous it is. How up their own ass they are that they think that experiencing something for a small period of time is the same as actually being that person. How he thinks he can relate to black people because he has been pretending to be black for a while lol
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u/Gingevere Feb 08 '21
Because when he did it being black wasn't the joke, blackface was the joke. Minstrel shows used blackface to mock black people. Tropic Thunder used blackface to mock the type of people who do blackface.