Acts of violence against PD

[Iason Ouabache]

Jesus fucking christ, do people in Australia think that kind of shit is OK? Wow.

Seems that Australia is the last bastion of 'blackface' shows. [shudder]

No, Japan and China still love the blackface/gollywog stuff. Of its just the tip of the iceberg of a great many things in their culture that would be considered pretty offensive over here.

Yeah, that would explain this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfX8pOiuWFc

[Faust]

Oh wow. At first I thought it might be a sign of affection in warped views, and then the trumpet fell apart.

[Lies]

Jesus fucking christ, do people in Australia think that kind of shit is OK? Wow.

Seems that Australia is the last bastion of 'blackface' shows. [shudder]

No, Japan and China still love the blackface/gollywog stuff. Of its just the tip of the iceberg of a great many things in their culture that would be considered pretty offensive over here.

Yeah, that would explain this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfX8pOiuWFc

Mind Officially Blown.

[BadBeast]

*Jaw hits floor*

[Phox]

Jesus fucking christ, do people in Australia think that kind of shit is OK? Wow.

Seems that Australia is the last bastion of 'blackface' shows. [shudder]

No, Japan and China still love the blackface/gollywog stuff. Of its just the tip of the iceberg of a great many things in their culture that would be considered pretty offensive over here.

Yeah, that would explain this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfX8pOiuWFc

I... uh... I ... I can't even form a coherent thought as to what I just watched... wow...

[BadBeast]

Have a go on this then. Not racist, but certainly a horrible act of gratuitous violence against music itself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI

[Lies]

Have a go on this then. Not racist, but certainly a horrible act of gratuitous violence against music itself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI

I see you that and raise you this

[BadBeast]

Have a go on this then. Not racist, but certainly a horrible act of gratuitous violence against music itself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI

I see you that and raise you this

Damn! I got nothing that'll beat that! *Throws cards down*

[Triple Zero]

Jesus fucking christ, do people in Australia think that kind of shit is OK? Wow.

Seems that Australia is the last bastion of 'blackface' shows. [shudder]

No, Japan and China still love the blackface/gollywog stuff. Of its just the tip of the iceberg of a great many things in their culture that would be considered pretty offensive over here.

Yeah, that would explain this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfX8pOiuWFc

Mind Officially Blown.

Apart from musical taste, is this actually "wrong" or even racist, though?

If he's impersonating Louis Armstrong, painting his face is pretty much the same thing as an Elvis impersonator wearing a wig. He's not ridiculing black people, just a guy trying real hard to look like Armstrong.

[BadBeast]

Jesus fucking christ, do people in Australia think that kind of shit is OK? Wow.

Seems that Australia is the last bastion of 'blackface' shows. [shudder]

No, Japan and China still love the blackface/gollywog stuff. Of its just the tip of the iceberg of a great many things in their culture that would be considered pretty offensive over here.

Yeah, that would explain this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfX8pOiuWFc

Mind Officially Blown.

Apart from musical taste, is this actually "wrong" or even racist, though?

If he's impersonating Louis Armstrong, painting his face is pretty much the same thing as an Elvis impersonator wearing a wig. He's not ridiculing black people, just a guy trying real hard to look like Armstrong.

I don't think it's racist, not really, because he does such a good impression of Armstrong, and he obviously didn't pick him because of his colour, but because he obviously loves his music.
Japanese are strange like that with their impersonators. They have most of the worlds Elvis impersonators there too. It's like a National Sport.

[Phox]

Jesus fucking christ, do people in Australia think that kind of shit is OK? Wow.

Seems that Australia is the last bastion of 'blackface' shows. [shudder]

No, Japan and China still love the blackface/gollywog stuff. Of its just the tip of the iceberg of a great many things in their culture that would be considered pretty offensive over here.

Yeah, that would explain this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfX8pOiuWFc

Mind Officially Blown.

Apart from musical taste, is this actually "wrong" or even racist, though?

If he's impersonating Louis Armstrong, painting his face is pretty much the same thing as an Elvis impersonator wearing a wig. He's not ridiculing black people, just a guy trying real hard to look like Armstrong.

I don't think it's racist, personally. It doesn't perpetuate stereotypes, the guy didn't do anything particularly mocking (well, except maybe the trumpet thing, but I think that was more offensive to musicians than black people), and there was no "oh look, he's in blackface, how hilarious!", at least not that I could tell. But yeah, different culture standards. That wouldn't fly in the U.S. of A.

[BadBeast]

Plus,the Japanese haven't had very much cultural crossover with Black people. If they were going to do a racist thing, they would target the Chinese or the Koreans, I would have thought. They have had lots of cultural conflict there in the not so distant past.

[Elder Iptuous]

I would disagree with that...
the Japanese think very low of black people).  in my experience they believe they are a superior race in general, but they put blacks at the bottom of their hierarchy.
i think their lack of crossover might account for the lack of vitriol in their bigotry (as there hasn't ever been threat/fear), but them seeing black people as clownish doesn't really make them innocent of racism.

[BadBeast]

I suppose if you look at it like that, then they are racist. However I don't think the Louis Armstrong impersonator was even thinking of race here. He did his act completely like a tribute, rather than as a pisstake. I didn't get the slightest impression that race was being played for laughs, or as a belittlement.
Which I totally did with the Australian clip.   

[Phox]

I suppose if you look at it like that, then they are racist. However I don't think the Louis Armstrong impersonator was even thinking of race here. He did his act completely like a tribute, rather than as a pisstake. I didn't get the slightest impression that race was being played for laughs, or as a belittlement.
Which I totally did with the Australian clip.   

This. Not that you don't have a valid point, Ippy, but it seems less like racism and more like a tribute than the Australian thing did. Not that there isn't something inherently ridiculous about seeing a Japanese dude in blackface, but... you know.