Why is 'black face' bad?

I wrote it as 'black face' to illustrate a point.

Before anyone starts foaming at the mouth, I know full-well what I am asking, but I haven't found a TRUE answer yet, only a lot of racist (supposedly anti-racist) ranting and raving and 'how dare you'-stuff á la Greta Thunderbjörgen.

I think everyone should dare.

Why?

To me, nothing is as precious and valuable as freedom, except maybe equality, which is paramount.

We live in a world, where practical reality is about as inequal as possible, and yet people talk about equality. In this world, people talk a lot about freedom and bravery, but in reality, wage slavery is seen as the norm, and no one thinks it goes against freedom.

So when it comes to logic, racism, what people can and can't do (and I think everyone should be able to do everything and anything, as long as they don't hurt anyone or the world, nature, animals, etc., as long as they don't trample upon someone else's rights, etc., and as long as it's lawful (don't bring 'legal system' into this, though, it's a different thing altogether).

The ancient japanese used to, and still somewhat do, paint women's faces with white paint. This could be called 'white face'.

Logically, if 'black face' is bad and racist, then 'white face' should be equally bad and racist. Ban one, you should ban the other. Why aren't they equal?

I get it, I know - historically, there has been a horrible culture, where white people have used all kinds of methods of insulting, mocking, belittling, opressing and prejudicing against so-called 'minorities' (does it matter how many there are? What if black or asian people were the majority, would be then talking about 'majorities'?).

Some of those methods include dressing up 'like them', but really just taking the worst, most dispicable and annoying stereotype and then painting the whole group as this stereotype. For example, chinese people were depicted as pigtailed laundromat owners with rice hats and big teeth with wonky pigeon english and very slanted eyes.

Of course sometimes this kind of stereotypes do exist in real life - some asian people do have big teeth, their eyes do, generally speaking, have a more 'squinted' look even according to cameras ("Did someone blink?", a camera can ask), and that kind of hats have been historically worn and can be practical in many asian environments.

To me, this kind of stereotyped mocking, as bad as it is, is not the worst thing about it, though - I think the actually bad part of it is that these entertainers, movies, whatever it may be, OMIT the less stereotypical asians. So the crime here is not that someone did 'asian face', but it's more that they didn't do the 'regular face', and they used this stereotype to mock all asians, basically claiming they all are this stereotype.

In the end, 'black face' is just a TOOL to mock and insult - and it definitely WAS used to mock and insult, I do not condone that behaviour. However, instead of banning it and getting angry, as long as it doesn't really hurt anyone, the better way to deal with it might be doing the same.

Which world is better, one where everyone is free to mock anyone and anything in any (non-violent, lawful) way possible, or a world, where certain groups have more freedoms than others?

We always say racism is bad because you shouldn't judge someone based solely on their biological body. But isn't that what 'anti-racism' is doing, by banning words and behaviours, even their own body's decoration options based SOLELY ON YOUR BIOLOGICAL BODY?

If we are ever to realize that people are the same kind of souls, just in different kind of bodies, maybe we can stop obsessing about the physical body and stop identifying with it so much. Then we can freely mock the bodies of anyone, because after all, a black body isn't the soul that's living in that body.

I'd rather have black people mock white people by doing 'white face', than banning white people from mocking black people by doing 'black face'.

There's of course the whole 'slavery' aspect that ruins this kind of logical thinking, but then, white slavery is completely forgotten by history. Black slave owners? Forgotten. Arab slave owners that had white and black slaves? Forgotten. And so on.

What happened in history should be remembered, but we should look forward to the future of a better world, not be stuck to the past and hate each other and ban things based on it. Modern people have nothing to do with slavemasters of history, why should modern people suffer for their sins?

Germany is absolute worst, when it comes to this kind of stuff, you can't probably even say the N-word of their culture - 'Nazí', without getting in trouble. I wonder if you can wear or use Manji (the buddhist symbol that's mirror image of the swastika) there at all.

The swastika is not a bad symbol. Yes, I said it. Just because a group of megalomanic morons wore a symbol, doesn't mean the symbol itself is bad.