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Imitating your idols
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Imitating your idols
There's nothing wrong with that.
Lost in the back and forth is that people learn from their mistakes. I engaged in blackface at one point. But now that I know what it means I woudln't do it again.
The problem is there are people here that, after being informed of what blackface is and its racist history, still believe its ok to engage in.
I've got no problem with someone admitting they were previously ignorant of it, and then learning from it. Nobody is born with knowledge of history.
No history in this country? I can remember the furore when the two police officers used blackface to openly mock the deaths of indigenous men in custody.I find it disgusting that as a nation we are at the point that we are so americanised now that we have to find examples of their racist past to become all up in arms about.
Blackface has no history in this country as a form of racism. It is not tied to the indigenous people of this country in any way. In this instance we have a child whose idle is a big man of fijian heritage (where guess what, blackface also has no history or relevance to racism) and only wants to dress up as close as his can to his idle and here we have thousands of privileged (mostly) white people all up in arms about how it offends black people.
You want to get upset with anyone? Get upset with the social media blogger dickhead. Not the kid or the mum who in reality just wants her kid to feel special.
(so people know im a mainly white person with a grandmother who is a full blooded aboriginal), the mother of my children is 1/4 american indian and my wife now is fijian and of indian heritage)
No she didn't.
Sounds like she did what her child asked for and maybe wondered if it would be taken the wrong way.
Obviously the kid loves Naitanui and would love to be just like him. How is that racist?
A kid dresses up as his hero?
People need to stop automatically thinking the worst of a situation.
Racist, bigot, ***phobe, etc. are all names for Satan in the new leftist religion. They think that if they just lump up into a large herd of group-think and collectively call you a racist, then it must br true. Their religion is validated!
Painting your skin darker to portray yourself as a black person is basically the definition of blackface.
At the end of the day it's about respect. If you know that something you've said or done or going to do is likely to or has upset or caused hurt to someone, then apologise, learn from it and we all move on.
pretty simpleAt the end of the day it's about respect. If you know that something you've said or done or going to do is likely to or has upset or caused hurt to someone, then apologise, learn from it and we all move on.
YepWell done drunken bogan mum. You sure showed those politically correct extremists. Go forth and multiply and most importantly, don't take any guff from those swine.
Seriously though, whilst blackface might not have the extreme history in Australia as it does in the US, and a youngster making his skin darker to idolise his favourite footballer is not the same as Al Jolson dressing up as a golliwog.... But why even venture in that territory if not to deliberately provoke people, and going off her facebook post it was quite clear she wanted to "stick it to the pc crowd". Most importantly, why bring your young child into this, who would have no idea that he is being pushed into murky territory, and that his picture is now going to be splashed across the nations newspapers?
He didn't say it was racist.
So it's only racist when he chooses?
Because she's a deadshit who should never have bred in the first place.Well done drunken bogan mum. You sure showed those politically correct extremists. Go forth and multiply and most importantly, don't take any guff from those swine.
Seriously though, whilst blackface might not have the extreme history in Australia as it does in the US, and a youngster making his skin darker to idolise his favourite footballer is not the same as Al Jolson dressing up as a golliwog.... But why even venture in that territory if not to deliberately provoke people, and going off her facebook post it was quite clear she wanted to "stick it to the pc crowd". Most importantly, why bring your young child into this, who would have no idea that he is being pushed into murky territory, and that his picture is now going to be splashed across the nations newspapers?
Would the kid/mum really have thought Naitanui would be offended by it (and he's the only one whose opinion matters)? They probably thought he'd be stoked that a kid idolised him so much to go to that extent.
So it's only racist when he chooses?
The collective delusion of a mass of people bullying a woman due to their cultural appropriation of an American taboo, that didn't even specifically resemble that taboo, is amazing.
People are nuts, but their self-aggrandising morality play makes them feel good so I guess that's cool. This is the new Victorian era, except with less reliable trains.
He didn't say it was racist.
He also said that people are ignorant to what "blackface" is, even himself at one point.
He never said it was racist.
The way I see it, it was only an issue when a few whinging white people in the media applied their outrage brush all over it, so he was obliged to respond.
Whites came here and slaughtered the natives.What the **** happened to this country