What are your thoughts on blackface? Ok for white people to dress up or no? Why was C. Thomas Howell's part on Soul Man largely considered racist and offensive?
Why was Robert Downey Jr's part in Tropic Thunder largely given a pass?
I'll tell you why - the former is meant to lampoon black people, the latter is meant to lampoon Hollywood and method actors. This is what as known as context.
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Originally Posted by 68style
^ You're obviously not black, I've never read such privileged nonsense reasoning in my entire life...
There's a very good reason it's ok for black people to call each other by that word, it's ingrained into their culture and a way of identifying with each other over hardships they have faced as slaves and continue to face nowadays in the form of unfair persecution and labeling... which you haven't had to do ever in your life nor has anyone in your family is my guess... they earned that right within their own community. Maybe it will come to pass when they don't need it anymore, some of them choose not to use it anymore themselves, but who the fuck are you to take that choice away from them?
It's got nothing to do with you, so just don't say it and go on with your life. It's really not hard, there's no word police, it's not rocket science... just don't fucking say it if you're not black. How simple is that? Literally black and white. How ironic.
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How ironic that you provide context to argue against context.
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Originally Posted by MarkyMark
I don't know why it would remotely bother anyone that black people get to use the word and white people don't. It was a racist term that they decided to take for themselves, if that bothers you then I'm almost inclined to think you're racist yourself.
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Thank you for providing context on such a complex issue.
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Originally Posted by MarkyMark
Yeah I agree in this regard, don't call up a white person to sing your song that uses the N word multiple times and call them out on it. They are a fan of yours obviously, not cool to set them up like that.
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So in this regard, context matters? That didn't take long.