Since Tumblr cannot tell racism apart from sharing culture, I would like to point something out.
This is yellowface:
This is not:
This is blackface:
This is not:
*color*face is the intentional mockery of a race by imitating an epitomized and perceived stereotype,typically for comedy purposes. *color*face is not a person sharing in a culture or doing something you assume was ‘invented’ by another race. *color*face is not an actor who happens to play a character of a different race. *color*face is not someone with a tan. *color*face is not someone cosplaying as a nonhuman.
So to recap,
Blackface:
not blackface:
Yellowface:
not yellowface:
There ya go
-Yuki
And yes,
Whiteface also exists.
-Jackson
Also Nick Cannon, in the last image, recently got in trouble for saying white people (and jews) were inherently inferior to black people.
So it just makes his Whiteface that much worse. It was bad enough when he was doing a caricature of an entire race, but to later learn that he honestly sees that race as inferior? Whole new context.
Lmaoooo that black guy in the second photos looks so sickly with that shade of white on his skin 😂😂😂
Dave Chappell and he’s funny as hell
I was JUST looking at the controversy of a character named Zwarte Piet who was Santa’s helper from the Nederlands. He’s been around for a while so he has several origin stories. But one was where St. Nick freed him and Piet became his companion and servant. He’s commonly depicted with dark skin, red lips, and curly hair (not unlike American blackface). But, to my knowledge, he’s never shown as inferior or in a degrading manner. (Also he dresses fly AF)
Recently people want to have him banned or called ‘Soot Pete’ and simply have people depict him in their normal skintone with soot on.
Which is fine I guess, but after seeing the “controversy”, I was thinking along the same lines as the OP.
For frick’s sake, most people didn’t have a problem with Robert Downey Jr.’s depiction in Tropic Thunder. Hell, I didn’t even know it was him because of how convincing he was, down to the voice!
I feel a lot of Americans are too sensitive with racism and slavery (as it was in the West) and see other things through those lenses. It’s like they see something from another source, note how it’s similar to another racist thing in our history, and think the other is therefore racist because of how similar it is.
Blackface was awful because it was born from hate, made to misrepresent black people on purpose by supporting racist stereotypes, and make light of issues we were facing at the time. There was an actual character called Jim Crow.
However, someone wearing theatrical makeup to depict a person who happens to be POC, is about the same thing as depicting a character who happens to be green and an alien. It’s just makeup, nothing more nothing less. Granted I can understand if they want to switch a character up or use actual people of a certain race to portray someone, that’s fine. But immediately labeling something as racist without doing your got dang research isn’t going to fix anything and makes you look like a fool.
I’m kinda concerned about reactions to things like this. Because certain people will see a certain character in a setting and start placing all these labels on them without looking past their initial appearance.
I swear, if we’re not careful, noone’s going to want to depict anyone outside of their own race.
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