To: Martyboy1
"Blackface" has a history of bigotry. "Whiteface" is just turning that on its head. Yes, there are two separate standards, because there are two separate histories.
2 posted on
06/24/2004 3:29:38 AM PDT by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: xm177e2
And not only that, but from what I gather, most of the jokes come from the two being completely different from stereotypical "white chicks." Blackface was pretty much always about expressing stereotypes about black people.
5 posted on
06/24/2004 3:31:52 AM PDT by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: xm177e2
Yes, there are two separate standards, because there are two separate histories.Yep. It's history. Time to get over it.
7 posted on
06/24/2004 3:54:00 AM PDT by
Stentor
To: xm177e2
"Blackface" has a history of bigotry. "Whiteface" is just turning that on its head. Yes, there are two separate standards, because there are two separate histories.
LOL! Spinning. What a crock.
Then again, I seem to recall Gene Wilder pulling something similar in the movie "Silverstreak". Looked like a kind of dopey movie (the sisters movie) if you ask me, regardless of what color their faces are.
22 posted on
06/24/2004 5:13:37 AM PDT by
Rick.Donaldson
(There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.)
To: xm177e2
Oh, so what happened decades years ago gives them a free ride in making the exact racial stereotypes they protest? I understand now. As long as it's in reverse it's OK. Does turn of the century racism against Irishmen give me the right to make fun of Polacks?
27 posted on
06/24/2004 5:41:52 AM PDT by
RightthinkinAmerican
(Lefties are getting a little too much rope. Anyone wanna watch them hang themselves?)
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