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”.
What if a white guy dresses up as a black woman?
Yet Kimmel remains on the air despite that recurring character on “The Man Show” that helped get him there.
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.
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.