Pistanator
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People keep answering this question, you either keep ignoring it or don't understand the answers.
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Yes. If a white person considers it to be racist, then it is so.
Having said that, as a white person, I'd consider myself on fairly iffy ground, what with the whole x years of slavery thing going on, but...
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Pistanator in reply to @Bullheart
Is this ‘whiteface’ also racist then?
You're drawing a false equivalence. If you can show a history of Africans getting in boats, destroying the culture of the girls being depicted, changing their language, religion, mis-educating them, raping them, tourturing them, committing pedophillia, and forced free labour for nearly 400 years...then yes, you have a point. Otherwise I'm struggling...
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Other people have very eloquently explained why blackface isnt ok but it’s notable that your only point of ‘wahhh but what about whiteface???’, is a terrible film from over a decade ago.
Have a think about it - must be a real big problem 🙄
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Fucking hell. It's like I've walked in on a conversation between my bigot dad and his workmate UVF Tony.
Correct: blackface is racist.
Incorrect: "...well my mate Pritesh is a Paki - whassat? - nah, he's a good 'un, born in Chapletown, proper English and all that..."