You need to do a poll of people in Quebec
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Because they admire and want to emulate people of color.
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Presumably because people enjoy it. It's a cultural tradition. It's dress up. It's cosplay. It is also a deeply racist, insulting, hurtful activity for people who aren't white.
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Yeah. This feels right. But that just raises the other question: WHY do people like dress-up or cosplay? NOTHING makes me cringe more. I don't understand why people enjoy it. It's humiliating. And if it's also racist? Just...why?
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Agreed. As a white guy, I have made it to my 50s without ever looking at a tin of shoe polish and thinking, "This weekend would get all kinds of crazy awesome if I applied that to my face."
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I mean, a shoepolish mustache is a must for some hijinks, but...
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It's practically a prerequisite these days.
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People who go to costume parties often get way too into it. I know a prominent Cleveland-area comedienne who attended a Halloween party in college in full black face because she was lil Wayne. It was meant to be realistic, not offensive.
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Ever wonder WHY she picked Lil Wayne?
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