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Title: Digital Blackface
Post by: WLJ on March 13, 2021, 07:29:44 PM
Yay! They made up another way for you to be racist and for them to be offended.

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The Slow Factory Foundation recently issued a waning about digital blackface following Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's interview with Oprah Winfrey
 
Non-profit defined digital blackface as an online phenomenon where white and non-black people share GIFs and photos of black people to express emotion

The organization stated that these memes perpetuate 'negative stereotypes' about black people and are reminiscent of minstrel shows

Idea of digital blackface has been around for years, but the term was popularized by writer Lauren Michele Jackson in her 2017 Teen Vogue essay

The Slow Factory Foundation said people shouldn't be sharing Oprah reaction memes just because they are popular, prompting mixed reactions

Some praised the organization for educating others about digital blackface, while others felt it was going too far and is actually a form of black erasure

Don't post Oprah memes if you are not black: White people are told that using interviewer's Meghan reaction clips for fun is 'digital blackface' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9355601/White-non-black-people-told-NOT-share-Oprah-memes-digital-blackface.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus

‘Digital blackface’: Social justice non-profit warns against using Oprah reaction memes if you’re not black
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/03/13/digital-blackface-social-justice-non-profit-warns-against-using-oprah-reaction-memes-if-youre-not-black/
Title: Re: Digital Blackface
Post by: French G. on March 13, 2021, 07:58:48 PM
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Title: Re: Digital Blackface
Post by: Perd Hapley on March 13, 2021, 08:39:43 PM
You rang?

They've been grousing about this for years. This is how stupid and segregationist these Karens are.
Title: Re: Digital Blackface
Post by: RoadKingLarry on March 13, 2021, 09:04:25 PM
Some might get the idea that they just want to shut down criticism and ridicule of the morons.
Title: Re: Digital Blackface
Post by: Angel Eyes on March 13, 2021, 11:19:15 PM
Quote from: French G. on March 13, 2021, 07:58:48 PM
Only possible reply to this. https://tenor.com/view/karmi-jungle-pepega-gif-15832233 (https://tenor.com/view/karmi-jungle-pepega-gif-15832233)

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Perfect.
Title: Re: Digital Blackface
Post by: HankB on March 14, 2021, 09:20:59 AM
Quote from: WLJ on March 13, 2021, 07:29:44 PM
. . .
Don't post Oprah memes if you are not black . . .
But I thought it was OK since she's these gestures show she's really a double white supremicist?

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Title: Re: Digital Blackface
Post by: Perd Hapley on March 14, 2021, 03:10:21 PM
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Title: Re: Digital Blackface
Post by: WLJ on March 14, 2021, 08:21:42 PM
Better not be a white guy behind that Perd Hapley avatar  :rofl:
Title: Re: Digital Blackface
Post by: bedlamite on March 14, 2021, 08:25:07 PM
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Title: Re: Digital Blackface
Post by: Perd Hapley on March 14, 2021, 10:20:46 PM
Quote from: WLJ on March 14, 2021, 08:21:42 PM
Better not be a white guy behind that Perd Hapley avatar  :rofl:

Uh-oh.

I told one of my Army buddies that he was the blackest man in the galaxy (90s film reference), and he responded that I was "the whitest of the whitest white men."