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Asian makeup artist is accused of 'blackface' after transforming into Kobe Bryant - but she claims she was simply 'paying tribute' to the late NBA star
Daily Mail ^ | May 24, 2023 | JO TWEEDY

Posted on 05/24/2023 8:50:09 AM PDT by artichokegrower

A TikToker who filmed herself using makeup to look like the late basketball legend Kobe Bryant has faced criticism over the clip - with some accusing her of 'blackface‘

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: blackface; kobebryant; racism; woke
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Why is this wrong when men can be drag queens?
1 posted on 05/24/2023 8:50:09 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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2 posted on 05/24/2023 8:51:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Adds a new slant to the whole issue.


3 posted on 05/24/2023 8:51:36 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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I saw that.


4 posted on 05/24/2023 8:51:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To a hammer the whole world looks like a nail. To a racist...


5 posted on 05/24/2023 8:55:05 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: artichokegrower

Avoid any issue having to do with black people.

They are so tied up with the leftist/Democrat exercise of power and their constantly-shifting and conflicting propaganda themes, its not worth any effort.


6 posted on 05/24/2023 8:55:16 AM PDT by PGR88
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There are YouTube videos of people getting interviewed on the street about this sort of thing.

Everyone is outraged by blackface — claiming to be a race that you are not? Very bad!!

No one is outraged by “womanface” — a man wearing makeup and claiming to be a woman. That’s “different”. It’s “fine”. No one can explain why one is better than the other, but “it just is”.


7 posted on 05/24/2023 8:55:16 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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“Adds a new slant to the whole issue.”

Easy its a slippery slope


8 posted on 05/24/2023 8:58:39 AM PDT by al baby (Sarcasm )
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What if a white guy dresses up as a black woman?


9 posted on 05/24/2023 8:58:45 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Did she use the LASD crash scene photos as a guide?


10 posted on 05/24/2023 8:59:27 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Just laugh loudly out loud at any woketard that comes out with woketard crap. So what if someone paints their face? It’s not as if the left is above playing pretend.


11 posted on 05/24/2023 9:00:44 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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Stupid Asian woman thinks she can get away with doing innocent things, just because she’s not white.

Sorry, lady. If no Class 1 targets are available, the race baiters will happily move on to Class 2 targets.


12 posted on 05/24/2023 9:02:12 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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I don’t understand the outrage over ‘black face’ how is this insulting/racist?? Al Jolson did it for years, but, that was before people were born without spines.


13 posted on 05/24/2023 9:02:14 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP))
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“Everyone is outraged by blackface”

Yet Kimmel remains on the air despite that recurring character on “The Man Show” that helped get him there.

14 posted on 05/24/2023 9:04:34 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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Whoopi is ok with it.


15 posted on 05/24/2023 9:06:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Joy Behar is still on the air telling actual Black Americans (Justice Thomas & Tim Scott they don’t under what it’s like to be black despite her own blackface controversy as a liberal white woman. Double standards due to politics reveals the falsity of their outrage.


16 posted on 05/24/2023 9:10:04 AM PDT by newzjunkey (We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
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Okay, so if it blackface is wrong—and I think what was done here is art, okay, and all. Anyway, then isn’t mentally ill men pretending to be women wrong as well? Or entitled progressive women claiming to be Indian, or senators claiming to be veterans.


17 posted on 05/24/2023 9:10:30 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Anybody But Trump. Tired of Trump's Boorish Antics, Poor Hiring and Life Choices. We Can Do Better!)
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No one is outraged by “womanface” — a man wearing makeup and claiming to be a woman.

Or even the very same Asian woman making herself up as Audrey Hepburn, which I presume was not met with a similar chorus of offended screams.

I do understand that blackface has a history that justifies reasonable caution, but this lady is not doing general blackface, making her appearance like specific celebrities is her thing, and it should not matter what race those celebrities are. Or if it does, then let society scream about her making herself look like white celebrities too.

18 posted on 05/24/2023 9:15:59 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Conservatism's last hope, last recourse, in fact last expedient, against the libertarian hordes.)
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To: al baby; dfwgator
"Easy its a slippery slope"

I just have to reorient myself, while avoiding any occidents.

19 posted on 05/24/2023 9:16:25 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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Blackface might offend some people. Well, okay.

But by far the greatest cultural outrage of this era has to be Elizabeth Warren’s casual claim to be a Cherokee. It moved her up the ladder, ahead of people who otherwise would have gotten those positions. That’s way more than just offending someone.

Yet Warren still sits smugly in the Senate. Anyone who wants to cancel a “blackface” performer should first explain how Warren gets a pass.


20 posted on 05/24/2023 9:20:36 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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