Yes. It was hilarious watching people losing their minds over a black Ariel.
Just wow.
Have no words!
I can't help but shake my head at some of these antics. How do these marketing people justify their pay!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51399355
Books pulled over 'literary blackface' accusations
This is not blackface. This is race swapping characters which companies like marvel and other movie studios do all the time. I personally hate it as it's lazy and pandering but it's not blackface in the meaning of blackface. Fictional characters can be any colour which is an argument for doing it.
I’m offended as well. Shit game.
True, that was terrible.
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Context wise though, its acknowledging the crassness of it and how ridiculous they look doing it. Same as Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder
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Yeah, it hasn’t aged well. There’s a massive backlash against the “I’m a laydee” stuff from trans activists too.
Things move on quickly don’t they. I didn’t bat an eyelid at any of this stuff at the time, and it was only 10-15 years ago.
Trisha called Leigh Francis out for hypocrisy after he voiced support for BLM. He apologised, and that’s as far as I read.
He was white wasn’t he?
They've been talking about bringing Little Britain back recently as well, at least starting with radio. Have to wonder how many, if any, of their characters would survive the rabid activism of today. I don't mean the blackface ones, obviously.
Yeah, I know this is the Blackface thread but it won't be long before they move onto depictions of gay characters, I guess.
You'd think gay characters should be able to survive. I mean, I understand why it might be offensive for a white person to portray a black person. But a straight person playing a gay person? That's basically what acting is, isn't it? Pretending to be something you're not?
The gay stuff in Little Britain was more well done, I'd say. Lucas is gay in real life which makes it more acceptable for a start, and the audience were only ever laughing at his character and how absurd he was. The rest of the characters around him were all played 'straight' if you'll pardon the pun!
I'd say that's okay, I still find it hilarious.
.The world is definetly heading into the wrong direction.
Just had to google what Antoine did 3 years ago, because of the reactions i saw here i thought it must have been something scandalous.... and it was just a picture of him dressed as a black basketball player?! This world really has become way too sensitive. I don't like it. Not at all.
edit: I made some research now about the past of 'blackfacing'. Now i get it a little bit, but i still think it's stupid to be this sensitive if it is obvious that someone who does it has no bad intentions.
Defending the right to keep a racist statue aside, they do make an interesting point. If we're re-evaluating the morals of everyone we seem to hold in higher regard, should Mohammed be exempt? I'm not saying yes or no, but I hadn't really thought of that.
Muslims wouldn't mind if there were no statues of Mohammed, that was the joke.
