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Tropic Thunder
Nodaisho:
Hmm... less prevalent than it was? Not nearly as common as some spoilt highschoolers would tell you (I only got a D in this class even though I turned in homework some of the time and took a couple of the tests, Mrs. ____ is a racist!)? Very rare is a subjective term, and in retrospect, it is probably more common than very rare implies.
Surgoshan:
--- Quote ---But to not know anything about the history of blackface is supremely ignorant, and frankly it confirms peoples' opinions about your generation.
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Uhhh, no. The use of blackface in film died out by the end of the 30s. Exposure to it now comes only from rare Looney Tunes cartoons and very rare, risqué artistic performances. Because of the incredibly negative stereotyping involved, it's not a part of mainstream public discourse. In order to encounter blackface, you have to actively look for it or, say, take a class on the integration of black culture into mainstream american culture.
In short, to say that not knowing about the history of blackface reflects supreme ignorance would be like saying that ignorance of daguerrotype or of Newcomen's engine reflects supreme ignorance. All three represent a brief period of introduction before being surpassed by other, superior models. The early models were then buried and largely forgotten.
Nodaisho:
We covered it in history class, all of 8th grade's history was black history, from the 1400s and slavery to the civil rights movement, it was mentioned because then-recently, there was a teacher that had dressed up in blackface for something, maybe halloween, and had lost his job. Wasn't in our school, don't think it was even in Colorado, but the history of it was discussed.
The teacher in question apparently wasn't a racist, he just didn't realize it was in bad taste until afterwards.
CamusCanDo:
I saw Bamboozled when I was either 10 or 11, I had no idea what I was watching. Other than that, beforehand I had only seen blackface in really old cartoons like Tom and Jerry on Cartoon Network. Oh, and Dragonball Z. Mr Popo, what?
It wasn't until I was 12-13 that I really understood what blackface was and that it was pretty fucking racist.
So yeah Tropic Thunder looks like shit
Nodaisho:
--- Quote from: CamusCanDo on 13 Jul 2008, 22:39 ---Oh, and Dragonball Z. Mr Popo, what?
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Meh, it was made in Japan. The culture is very different, and racism was never a big thing, so far as I have seen.
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