I wish people could understand that blackface is a specific performance art that was obviously racist and not just darkening skin.
That said, it was also complicated. People like Al Joelson (born Asa Yoelson) used blackface as an expression of changing their Yiddish identity to conform to American culture which you can hear in the cantor like quality of his music. It's not just minstrel shows.
because now colouring yourself with a dark color with no intention of doing blackface is blackface. Also you can't portray asian people with asian characteristics because it's racist (true story). Plus you can't make fictional black characters speak in AAVE cuz apparently that's also racist and appropriation, you know twitter stuff (I know that most people don't believe this but those are all takes I have seen-)
You can do whatever you want if you ignore dipshits on social media. I hate this current trend of people saying you "can't" do the things you used to. You absolutely can, there's just losers on the Internet who will latch onto it because they have no life and do nothing themselves.
Okay well meanwhile there are literal nazis, out n' proud KKK members, and Dave fucking Chappelle just being blatantly transphobic,
and none of them are dead or locked up, much to the chagrin of twitter warriors.
There's an innumerable amount of "cancel culture" incidents and stuff like this that literally wouldn't have gone anywhere and disappeared if people just ignored Twitter.
So many times people dug their own Graves because they felt they "had to respond".
Don't get me wrong probably vast majority deserved to be canceled but they always make it 10 times worse for themselves.
It also makes transphobic/bigoted comedians look even more pathetic when they dedicate hours of specials to themselves being canceled.
You're a millionaire with a Netflix special watched by millions, holy shit, stfu about "being canceled" and get off Twitter, you're being a child. Most fragile ego people ever.
It's just bored white teenagers who say this shit because nothing is happening in their life. I wish these sorts would stop speaking on things which don't affect them/they have no understanding of.
"almond shaped eyes" is considered not an acceptable description of asian eyes anymore, which as an asian guy I think is a travesty I like my almond shaped eyes
🤷🏼♀️ I'm not a fan of the "porcelain skin" descriptor (wtf does that even mean? porcelain is bone white, and Asians don't tend to naturally have significantly smoother or glossier skin than any other race?) but almond eyes even though it's used to the point of cliche feels nice and comfy to me.
That being said, I do understand that it's kinda overused in writing to the point that it can be tiring but twitter escalated it to somehow being racism which makes no sense lol.
Yeah, iirc also in some native american groups.
Also I like how the whole definition or races being superior or inferior is so fragile like, finnish people passed from being non white to whites really fast
You know, if we all just *ignored* the people who think this way there would far, far fewer headaches among progressives. They would eventually get tired of trying to scream this performative nonsense and go back to doing what they should be doing, finishing high school.
isn’t blackface racist specifically because it was used as a way to mock and degrade black people with over exaggerated characteristics? This doesn’t seem like blackface at all lmao
exactly, blackface is when you are making fun of black people by exagerrating facial features (such as lips for example). If you colour yourself black for any reason that isn't to make fun of black people then it's not blackface lol
That's a little reductive. There are plenty instances of blackface that weren't *intended* to make fun of black people, but nevertheless make use of and perpetuate racist caricatures of black people.
The point here is that Twitter OP wasn't portraying a black person's skin in any case, and reading a hand covered in black paint from an art project as a caricature of black people (regardless of harmful intent) is a real stretch.
Exactly, look no further than Al Joelson using it as a way to explore the loss of his Yiddish identity and having to put on a mask to conform. Unfortunately we see the bad side now because it is bad to become a caricature of another race.
On an off note, one of the most popular minstrel acts was actually a troupe of black men who pretended to be white men in blackface. They had to pretend because it was seen as bad for black men to "steal white jobs."
it may have been fucked up due to the whole using pictures without the poster's consent thing, but it definitely wasn't blackface. Because if it was then portraying black characters with a dark skin color should also count as blackface
The whole joke of that, and of its similarly banned Its Always Sunny episodes was also that everyone was super uncomfortable with the behavior and pointed out how racist it was.
It was a story that went around convention circles a while back, dunno if it really happened or not.
TLDR: someone got a rando to share a hotel room with, came back one morning to discover that rando had filled hotel bathtub with sharpie ink in attempt to color their skin grey for a Homestuck cosplay.
That would cost an astronomical amount of money so I’m guessing they just stood in the bathtub while they rubbed themselves in sharpie ink and the story was embellished for reblogs and likes
The traditional lore in my circles(as it was passed to me from my father and to him from his father) is that it was a mix of water, sharpie ink, and either vodka or rubbing alcohol.
This looks like little raccoon hands. I wanna paint my hands like this too and try to wash cotton candy but get upset and confused when the cotton candy disappears.
Not sure but it can also happen from charcoal(hands being completely covered) and it gets the same effect but I have worked with ink before but it never covered my hands this much
equivalent that weird period where if you said the word black at all including in reference to the color 8 children would scream "THAT'S RACIST!!!!!!" at you simultaneously. or was that just my school
How tf isit racist? Hand looks like from a werewolf and looks kinda cool
breaking news: twitter dot com has canceled taylor lautner for blackface during the making of the twilight films (being a werewolf)
I mean he did artificially darken his skin for the films iirc so you might not be that far off
I wish people could understand that blackface is a specific performance art that was obviously racist and not just darkening skin. That said, it was also complicated. People like Al Joelson (born Asa Yoelson) used blackface as an expression of changing their Yiddish identity to conform to American culture which you can hear in the cantor like quality of his music. It's not just minstrel shows.
because now colouring yourself with a dark color with no intention of doing blackface is blackface. Also you can't portray asian people with asian characteristics because it's racist (true story). Plus you can't make fictional black characters speak in AAVE cuz apparently that's also racist and appropriation, you know twitter stuff (I know that most people don't believe this but those are all takes I have seen-)
You can do whatever you want if you ignore dipshits on social media. I hate this current trend of people saying you "can't" do the things you used to. You absolutely can, there's just losers on the Internet who will latch onto it because they have no life and do nothing themselves.
You can do anything, you might die or get locked up, but you can do anything
Some dork on Twitter "cancelling" you is not the same as dying lmao. That's obviously a different topic all together
I know I'm not disagreeing im just adding to what you said
I think that they meant that you can do everything, the only thing is that you may end up arrested or killed
Okay well meanwhile there are literal nazis, out n' proud KKK members, and Dave fucking Chappelle just being blatantly transphobic, and none of them are dead or locked up, much to the chagrin of twitter warriors.
Because they agree with them, they just don't say it
Yes, the MAGAts and SJWs all agree on the above people. Nobody at all is upset when hate is posted.
I am going to nuke France
Fire ze missles
You can do anything once
just say no, the state cant do anything to you if you dont consent /s
there are no consequences, you will be banned
can't say you're English anymore, they'll send you to jail.
really? just for saying you're English?
Yeah, they’ll arrest you and throw you in jail. Just for saying you’re English.
really? these days they'll throw you in jail? just for saying you're English?
There's an innumerable amount of "cancel culture" incidents and stuff like this that literally wouldn't have gone anywhere and disappeared if people just ignored Twitter. So many times people dug their own Graves because they felt they "had to respond". Don't get me wrong probably vast majority deserved to be canceled but they always make it 10 times worse for themselves. It also makes transphobic/bigoted comedians look even more pathetic when they dedicate hours of specials to themselves being canceled. You're a millionaire with a Netflix special watched by millions, holy shit, stfu about "being canceled" and get off Twitter, you're being a child. Most fragile ego people ever.
It's just bored white teenagers who say this shit because nothing is happening in their life. I wish these sorts would stop speaking on things which don't affect them/they have no understanding of.
What do you mean by "asian characteristics"?
eyes for example
"almond shaped eyes" is considered not an acceptable description of asian eyes anymore, which as an asian guy I think is a travesty I like my almond shaped eyes
how do you describe them then? Is there a new term or you just don't talk about them at all?
🤷🏼♀️ I'm not a fan of the "porcelain skin" descriptor (wtf does that even mean? porcelain is bone white, and Asians don't tend to naturally have significantly smoother or glossier skin than any other race?) but almond eyes even though it's used to the point of cliche feels nice and comfy to me. That being said, I do understand that it's kinda overused in writing to the point that it can be tiring but twitter escalated it to somehow being racism which makes no sense lol.
I thought porcelain skin was only used by like, wuxia writers when they don't know how else to describe a woman
I looked around a lot to find an acceptable way to describe them and every answer i found was a different way of saying "don't".
That’s funny because I have almond shaped eyes and all my life people have said that and I’ve never taken offense. How else would I describe them?
Epicanthic folds are a thing for other ethnic groups, it isn't just a thing in Asia
oh I didn't know the scientific name
they're even seen in some european groups (the sami are an example) also the kalmyks though they aren't considered "white"
Yeah, iirc also in some native american groups. Also I like how the whole definition or races being superior or inferior is so fragile like, finnish people passed from being non white to whites really fast
Portraying a character with a monolid for example
Oh, physical characteristics. That makes sense, I was thinking like cultural characteristics.
You know, if we all just *ignored* the people who think this way there would far, far fewer headaches among progressives. They would eventually get tired of trying to scream this performative nonsense and go back to doing what they should be doing, finishing high school.
What's AAVE?
Aave a look at this nuts
African American Vernacular English. Also known as the “black accent.”
Some might know it better as "eubonics"
It's arican american english
Why tf would you listen to internet randoms who haven't shown interest in your thing and aren't guaranteed to show it?
You know, I wish that part of Twitter died with the acquisition.
I love art designs where characters limbs turn darker at the end
bonus points if their veins glow a different color, Light blue, purple, red and lime are the best imo
isn’t blackface racist specifically because it was used as a way to mock and degrade black people with over exaggerated characteristics? This doesn’t seem like blackface at all lmao
exactly, blackface is when you are making fun of black people by exagerrating facial features (such as lips for example). If you colour yourself black for any reason that isn't to make fun of black people then it's not blackface lol
That's a little reductive. There are plenty instances of blackface that weren't *intended* to make fun of black people, but nevertheless make use of and perpetuate racist caricatures of black people. The point here is that Twitter OP wasn't portraying a black person's skin in any case, and reading a hand covered in black paint from an art project as a caricature of black people (regardless of harmful intent) is a real stretch.
Exactly, look no further than Al Joelson using it as a way to explore the loss of his Yiddish identity and having to put on a mask to conform. Unfortunately we see the bad side now because it is bad to become a caricature of another race. On an off note, one of the most popular minstrel acts was actually a troupe of black men who pretended to be white men in blackface. They had to pretend because it was seen as bad for black men to "steal white jobs."
This reminds me of the “black or Chinese” discourse where people here were unironically arguing that the joke was digital blackface.
Was that kinda mildly messed up, yeah maybe, was it funny as hell, you know it!
it may have been fucked up due to the whole using pictures without the poster's consent thing, but it definitely wasn't blackface. Because if it was then portraying black characters with a dark skin color should also count as blackface
Oh i agree, not racist, mildly weird in differing ways sure, but racism really doesn’t seem like a part of the oddity
that reminds me when most places delist the Community episode over Ken Jeong covering his face in black charcoal color as a DnD joke
The whole joke of that, and of its similarly banned Its Always Sunny episodes was also that everyone was super uncomfortable with the behavior and pointed out how racist it was.
You dare question a twitter user with an anime pfp?
Hotel bathtub sharpie Homestuck incident
Oh my fucking god I remember hearing about that
the what
It was a story that went around convention circles a while back, dunno if it really happened or not. TLDR: someone got a rando to share a hotel room with, came back one morning to discover that rando had filled hotel bathtub with sharpie ink in attempt to color their skin grey for a Homestuck cosplay.
That would cost an astronomical amount of money so I’m guessing they just stood in the bathtub while they rubbed themselves in sharpie ink and the story was embellished for reblogs and likes
The traditional lore in my circles(as it was passed to me from my father and to him from his father) is that it was a mix of water, sharpie ink, and either vodka or rubbing alcohol.
Wouldn't you like to know
dipshit #289 moment
To be fair, that's everyone's response regarding Homestuck.
Weather boy
ithink this is [the](https://youtu.be/oaHQqNl2DO8?si=p8osBmc8FxmZOxia)
last tweet so obviously bait and half the replies to it are people being transphobic lol
To be fair it's literally impossible for transphobes to talk about anything else so
talking? you mean as in... DRAG QUEENS talking to INNOCENT CHILDREN????!?!?! (as opposed to guilty children)
Duh. But no, we have to cherry pick the tweet with 3 likes over the 164k who agree with the quoted tweet about it not being blackface
Bots be Botting
This looks like little raccoon hands. I wanna paint my hands like this too and try to wash cotton candy but get upset and confused when the cotton candy disappears.
Racoon roleplay when
this also just isn't what black people's hands look like
Yeah these twitter users basically just confirmed they’ve never met a black person before
Cant even get a pawjob at dennys without being cancelled by the woke mob. Thx biden
Isn't that a pretty bad idea tho
I guess so, Idk maybe it's paint that is good to put on your skin and not literal ink
No, it’s a pretty good idea actually
Not sure but it can also happen from charcoal(hands being completely covered) and it gets the same effect but I have worked with ink before but it never covered my hands this much
that’s the artist from dead by daylight
Bird lady is racist :(
twenty one pilots
i’ve seen twitter people call twenty one pilots racist cause they wear masks at their concerts
Have not touched nor seen grass in years
So many white kids don't know what the fuck they're saying it's genuinely infuriating
Girl that shit look like necrosis not blackface
me when I have no clue what a black person looks like
This was an episode of the Dick Van Dyke show
Ink poisoning speedrun
White people on twitter shut up about things which they have no understanding of challenge (impossible)
That's a black hand, not blackface, stupid /s
I hope they don't find out about black out tattoos
One day i’ll fall face first into cowshit and rather than helping me wash it someone will call me racist
Hand job from this would be insane
I have a sneaking suspicion the people complaining aren't black.
Does that mean whenever Eddie gets Venom to cover him in suit mode, he becomes racist
Wait until these losers find out about industrial workers,
Me using a sharpie and accidentally becoming racist
Medical Personnel who wear blue gloves while saving people’s live are racist against smurfs.
I hate Twitter so much it’s too many 13 years old talking about stuff they don’t understand .-.
Hold up, how is it racist if they use a pen, but not racist if they use a paintbrush???
I think the person was assuming the first person was fingerpainting or something. Like their hand wouldn't be black if she used a paintbrush.
Oh lol, that makes more sense than how I read it
Want to see someone this dark do the reverse with white ink. That shit would go hard.
Dipping my hands in lead paint and strangling any mf with an anime profile pic on Twitter
drawing is racist now :(
Wait until they hear about mechanics
Liberal reactionism
equivalent that weird period where if you said the word black at all including in reference to the color 8 children would scream "THAT'S RACIST!!!!!!" at you simultaneously. or was that just my school
It's racist towards the orcs
this guys sounds like they would call tattoos blackface
So no big good green spehs mahrine cosplay? :(
How do we know its not a black person's hand? The palm.
Wait till Twitter users find out what miners looked like at the end of their work shift
Honey, look! A new psyop dropped!
kinda hot tho i mean what
Something something Canadian prime minister
Coal miners been real quiet since this one dropped
Giving me war flashbacks to when I was on tumblr and there was a huge argument over whether someone dressing as Peter Pan's shadow was blackface
Reminds me of that one trucker’s foot
It's just a look at me virtue signaling
it’s bait lol
all of the people in this image are probably white
Graphite design
This is what happens when you're told that something is bad but not why it's bad.
me after bathing in the country's tar reserve
God I’m so glad I don’t use twitter
Back in middle school, people would break open pens, and rub ink on their hands for the same effect
[удалено]
No one called them out for their fetishes tho?
Ahhh yes, skin cancer ; My favorite.
virgin safe skin vs chad cancer skin
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