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Do you find this offensive?
shaddler
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It's a video of Snoop Dogg 'whiting up' and pretending to be a white guy.
As a white guy I don't find it offensive or racist at all. I don't find it particularly funny either, but not because he's pretending to be a white guy,.
I've seen some people say that if it were a white guy 'blacking up' and doing the same thing it would be considered offensive and racist, but then you have to consider the cultural baggage and so perhaps it can't be considered to be exactly the same thing.
What do you think? Here's the video (it contains some swearing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HTeX4AhFaA
As a white guy I don't find it offensive or racist at all. I don't find it particularly funny either, but not because he's pretending to be a white guy,.
I've seen some people say that if it were a white guy 'blacking up' and doing the same thing it would be considered offensive and racist, but then you have to consider the cultural baggage and so perhaps it can't be considered to be exactly the same thing.
What do you think? Here's the video (it contains some swearing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HTeX4AhFaA
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I think he's a ******** and his "music" is shit.
I'm not offended by the whiting up though.
Sanity left that building a long time ago.
Not offended, just wondering what on earth that was all about.
My son is very heavily in to politics and he said that at some event he was attending a black woman said black people can't be racist. As they are a minority.
She also went on to say that without power you can't be racist and as black people don't have power they can't be racist., what a load of balls.
Yes im aware people will say I'm making this up and I wish I was.
I will have a look to see if I can find proof.
Hmmm and all the black people can make all they "white boy" comments.
My outrage meter is firmly stuck at zero on this one.
Oh dear!
There is a reason why "blacking up" could be seen as offensive, there is no reason why "whiting up" could be seen as offensive.
"Consider the cultural baggage"? WT proverbial F does that mean?
At least the bloke in this article talks sense
[url] http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/can-black-people-be-racist[/url]
Pretty much this. Of all the people they could get for doing the moneysupermarket advert (IIRC), they had to pick him, a convicted felon. FFS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoop_Dogg#Legal_incidents
2. is Snoop aspiring to go drag???
Why the hell not if I put black make up on why is that offensive and it's not for a black man to pretend to be a white man??
It's all about colour.
Would you care to share these reasons with the rest of us?
You despair at the human race sometimes.
Logic isn't some people's strong point obviously.
So, if there are 49,999 black people in a population of 100,000 in total, it's OK to be racist, but when that total reaches 50,001 then it's not.
The capacity of some people to talk total bollocks and bullshit knows no bounds.
Because back when the western world was very openly racist, white actors would wear black make up in theatre. The content and tone of such productions was, shall we say, derogatory. *
*I'm not saying all such productions were racist or derogatory in tone, I don't know. But that is why blacking up may be considered racist.
You being serious?
What difference does it make?
I do find his 'music' offensive to my ears though. It's utter shite.
Yes I am, and I was just highlighting why a black person whiting up cannot be compared to the reverse, in response to a specific statement. One has a history of racism behind it and the other does not.
Maybe it wasn't the right phrase. What I was trying to refer to was the whole history of black people being dehumanised and caricatured by whites. It seems to me that 'blacking up' is more of a sensitive issue than what Snoop Dogg is doing in the video.
What a load of old cobblers.
Why is that a load of old cobblers?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface
That is a thing that used to happen and is considered at worst racist and at best provocative.