blackface, like many forms of racism, is a pleasurable activity for the practitioner. it allows them to relish in mockery and, like traditional minstrelsy, frees them to behave in taboo or transgressive ways, that they can attribute to the racial costumehttps://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1174798801334390788 …
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i dunno, having seen the look of...satisfaction on the face of a white kid saying "nigger," the pleasure-seeking seems intuitive to me
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iirc, antebellum minstrelsy really got going with northern urban whites mocking free blacks that were aspiring to middle class respectability
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Well, Jeet, you are one of the Brown people who get mocked when White folks engage in Blackface and Brownface. So, of course, you don't get it emotionally.
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do you like dressing up in costumes in general? why do people wear elaborate clothing and apply elaborate makeup on Halloween or for other types of parties? why do people do drag?
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I think you are overrating how much thought is going into these decisions
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If a white kid dresses up as Jay-Z or Jules from Pulp Fiction he's trying to imitate his heroes not mock anyone. If you think Trudeau was feeling derision for minorities during any of his stunts you guys REALLY don't get it.
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Racist effect does not require racist intention.
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Agree with Jamelle's analysis, but I still find it viscerally puzzling that someone who's not vehemently racist would find it fun or funny.
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When I was about 4 years old, I was a great admirer of the 5 year old in our housing unit (military housing, Dad was in the Air Force). He could do everything better than I could, so one day I covered myself in motor oil to darken my skin like his (he was African American).
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Well, it wasn’t particularly transgressive, as it was part of a hegemonic ideology. If you read primary sources from the past you have to confront that fact that dominating other people often was emotionally gratifying for people.
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For instance the enslaved were often forced to perform various elaborate rituals of subordination that had little to do with profit and a lot to do with performing inferiority and deference. Minstrelsy established the moral, intellectual and cultural superiority of white people.
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