Digital Blackface

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Anonymous wrote:What you’re talking about, OP, is being intentional about not misappropriating images of Black people (or other marginalized groups) to express how you’re feeling. If the image is of someone already in the public, ie Prince, Oprah, Obama, then it’s fine. They’ve been well-paid for the work they’ve done. So to answer your question, yes, you can use that image of Prince.

Okay:


Not okay:

Oh come on! No one who sends a gif of that cute little boy is impersonating him. They're enjoying the cute kid dancing picture.

Let’s be honest: you’re not sending that gif because you’re showing someone how cute he is. You’d send when you’ve just had something amazing happen like you got a raise. You say, “Here’s how I’m feeling right about now,” and you’d include this gif. If you’re white, not okay. Find a happy white kid dancing.

Why is it not okay?

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I think my area is just more racist. I've lived here for a long time and I have a pretty good feel for the community. The "dancing kid" meme and others are sent around here not because they only identify with the kid's emotions but also because they think he is like a spectacle, like a minstrel show. Maybe your areas are filled with pure minded people, but this is where my mind goes when I see this.

This.

Black culture has had a tremendous influence of popular culture, slang, art etc.

If people can't cross-pollinate, and white people are only allowed to use historically culturally white (if they can even be a thing) forms of expression, then does that not exacerbate the problem of white supremacy in a majority-white country?

Doesn't this cut against all of the claims about how the cultural default in this country is deficient and not appropriately calibrated?

What do people want here? Some type of acknowledgement when you use a meme or expression from a culture that is not "your own"?

Try not to send around things that look like this and you should be okay.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/history-of-blackface-unmasking-the-racism-reignited-by-megyn-kelly-controversy/

Well, not according to CNN.

And they are an authority you trust?

Their article is likely the impetus for this thread.

[Anonymous]

I'm a white person on a friends thread with a black friend. I make a point of finding non-white GIFs because IMO it's more racist only to showcase white people. I think the little boy dancing is absolutely adorable and not racist in the least.

[Anonymous]

It's also extremely problematic when people post memes about the opposite sex. Men should only post memes about men, and so forth. I find it truly dehumanizing.

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Anonymous wrote:It's also extremely problematic when people post memes about the opposite sex. Men should only post memes about men, and so forth. I find it truly dehumanizing.

Did you just assume a man’s gender???

[Anonymous]

I don’t think it’s odd or racist to post one with a person of a different race but I do think it’s questionable when a white person posts a meme of a black person with word/phrases that are associated with the black community. Like, I’m not posting anything that calls people “Child” like someone posted above, or uses African-American vernacular. That would seem to me to be inappropriate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I don’t think it’s odd or racist to post one with a person of a different race but I do think it’s questionable when a white person posts a meme of a black person with word/phrases that are associated with the black community. Like, I’m not posting anything that calls people “Child” like someone posted above, or uses African-American vernacular. That would seem to me to be inappropriate.

But AAVE and slang gets popularized into mainstream parlance all the time. At what point does it become appropriate?

[Anonymous]

No it's racist to even post pictures of black people let alone Asian or Latino. Soo racist!


Seriously get a life and stop walking on eggshells