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And don’t forget Tard face.
shareTard face?
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No because Tropic Thunder was a satire. Blackface was used as a way to mock people who think blackface is okay. Yeah it's sort of a catch 22, but RDJ's character was just so much up his own ass that he got surgery to change the pigment of his skin.
shareThat doesn't excuse a msn painting his face black
shareThe act of applying color to someone's skin isn't inherently offensive. It's all about the intent.
shareThe intent seems to be offensive
shareThen perhaps you should watch the movie again. The characters arc is quite literally him seeing the error if his way, and coming to understand why his portrayal was offensive. Ergo, the intent of the movie was obviously to show blackface in a negative light, otherwise they wouldn't bother having the character come to that conclusion.
shareYou still see a guy painted black
shareThere was no intent to "paint" black people in a negative light. At all.
Don't understand the difference in this and Al Jolson?
What about a black man painting his face white
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From my point of view that's not hwo the world works.
shareBlackface was never the horrible crime against nature that the SJWs claim it is today. Even before this you had the movie Soul Man where C Thomas Howell was in blackface pretty much the whole film. It opened number 3 at the box office and inflation adjusted numbers give it a gross of about 67 million. Hell James Earl Jones was also in the movie so it apparently wasn't offensive to him. The problem is the thin skinned fucks of today seem to want to be offended by everything and sometimes seem to make up reasons to be offended.
The reality is none of the fucking thin skinned SJWs was alive when blackface was being done in the vaudeville days to make fun of blacks... Yet they want to pretend that see an actor in blackface today is the same thing as seeing Al Jolson singing Mammy...
Blah blah blah SJWs blah blah blah
shareIt worked. That's comedy. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't.
It wasn't offensive because that wasn't the intent.
Yep. Millions of dollars spent to make a movie what's entire goal is to "bring back blackface." You're a modern day journalist.
shareBlack face wasn't even acknowledged then......