CNN Coins New Term: Digital Blackface
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March 27, 2023This is by far the dumbest thing I have heard today. Apparently, if you’re white, you can’t even post a GIF or meme of a black person. If you do, you’re a racist. They are calling it, “digital blackface.” Seriously. This is a thing now.
The article states,
Perhaps you posted that meme of supermodel Tyra Banks exploding in anger on “America’s Next Top Model” (“I was rooting for you! We were all rooting for you!”). Or maybe you’ve simply posted popular GIFs, such as the one of NBA great Michael Jordan crying, or of drag queen RuPaul declaring, “Guuuurl…”
If you’re Black and you’ve shared such images online, you get a pass. But if you’re White, you may have inadvertently perpetuated one of the most insidious forms of contemporary racism.
The “most insidious forms of contemporary racism,” you guys. Why is this world so stupid? How is posting a viral GIF or meme comparable to someone doing actual blackface? How is sending a GIF or meme in a text message to a friend “one of the most insidious forms of contemporary racism?” It’s not. The very concept of “digital blackface” is quite possibly one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.
Sharing this makes me a racist:
But Justin Trudeau actually walked around in blackface and no one gives a crap because he’s a Leftist commie.
These two things are not the same.
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An article about IQ going down appearing on the front page with this one should say it all.
Compared to “gender” it at least makes sense. It’s attempting to expand the concept of black face to further exert control on the population of what they perceive as the oppressors by racial power dynamics. Yes it’s dumb but the very axioms on which it was formed are deliberately dumb so it’s inevitable. The root problem is the statement I made above.
CNN better get with the times, Red wrote about it back in 2017-
https://chicksonright.com/blog/2017/08/04/attention-townspeople-probably-guilty-digital-blackface/
I was thinking that I had heard of this before. Perhaps it’s even worse now because it’s “insidious.”
And if I had read this two days ago, I’m sure I would not have used the cheering black guy gif to celebrate one of our church members finally receiving their passport 5 days prior to their mission trip…. or maybe I would have.