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i'm glad it ain't just me... this fucking place sometimes...
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Those cider guys aren't 'blacking up' in a racial sense. I haven't said for a moment that blacking up in a racial sense is on. I've said that the manner in which these people have made their faces black is very different to blacking up as we tend to know it. Therefore it cannot be thought about in the same way. I feel this is a fairly straightforward and logical observation to make. A little objectivity please...
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Has anybody mentioned that a slang for morris dancing from the early 19th century was "going niggering" due to the black face paint?
Sure, the morris dancers aren't blacking up for racist reasons but it sure adopted nasty connotations later on.
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Next up, the N word. Really so bad?