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Producers choosing to pull television episodes that were critical of the use of blackface (quokk.au)
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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)
  1. I think they should do exactly that "This episode has some racist stuff we were stupid in making. Sorry" and keep it available
  2. Doing satire about blackface in the 00s was about as timely and relevant to issues at the time as making satires about railway tycoons would have been.
  3. If for some reason you still wanted to do this, you shoudn't have actually done it
    3.5) If you were depicting a fantasy race, just use a shade of "grey-black" not "brown-black" to differentiate the inhuman character
  4. The only thing that did it properly was Spike Lee's "Bamboozled" since it's a black director giving his own opinion on black culture.
  5. for some reason, 30 rock did it multiple fucking times, and the only good one was John Hamm, since :
  1. The context was showing tv shows evolving over time
  2. The makeup was done poorly on purpose
  3. Contrasting the usually stupid Tracy and having him be dignified with "I IS DONE STOLE THIS CATFISH" was actually fucking hilarious.
[–] Licksrocks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

3.5 still gets backlash, e.g, community season 2ep14 advanced dungeons and dragons. Pulled from Netflix for depicting Chang as a Dark elf.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I literally put that in to critique that specific choice. His colour was too black and not grey enough

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  1. Doing satire about blackface in the 00s was about as timely and relevant to issues at the time as making satires about railway tycoons would have been.

The examples of blackface among American politicians as well around that time (and I'm sure continuing) are abundant. It wasn't just JT, and IASIP was right to call them out on it in the satirical fashion that was relevant at the time. It's not their fault that some of the audience they reached were idiots that took it as "haha blackface funny" rather than "haha idiots that do blackface seriously are fucking idiots". We've seen through the whole run of their show how some fans have and continue to miss the point that these are assholes and you're not meant to want to be like them or do the things they do.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

only robert downy jr. can pull off blackface

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Community used actual grey blue black for the drow character played by Chang and they had a huge lampshade hanging on how racist that was to do even if it was a rpg group with friends, and they still disappeared the episode despite it being one of the best of the entire show T_T Yes, I'm still mad about it.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Community used actual grey blue black for the drow character played by Chang

If this is grey/blue, go get your eyes checked out

I'm talking about this kind of grey

[–] m4xie@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada for 10 damn years, did blackface in 2001.

It became a subject of widespread public conversation in 2019 and many people defended or minimized it.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

i dont understand why anyone cares about the audience at all, fuck the audience. if they knew what they wanted to see they would make it themselves