Acts of violence against PD

[Elder Iptuous]

hm...
i think it's like i said about them not ever having been 'threatened' by the presence of black people that accounts for the subtlety in their racism.
or maybe i'm wrong...

[Phox]

hm...
i think it's like i said about them not ever having been 'threatened' by the presence of black people that accounts for the subtlety in their racism.
or maybe i'm wrong...

Could be. Who knows?

[BadBeast]

The Japanese have never been subtle in their racism against, for example the Chinese, but like you said, it could be down to the lack of any historical or geographical threat. But I'm not trying to say that the Japanese aren't racist, they're human, so they are subject to similar cultural pressures as the rest of us. It's just that racism usually has a very particular stink about it, that is totally lacking here.  

[Faust]

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.

It goes back to minstrel heritage. While that act may not have been a minstrel act, it damn well came off as one when they started doing the slapstick routine.

[Slyph]

wow, that broke my fucking brain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIE3dIzypXI Japanese Bruce Willis

[Triple Zero]

It goes back to minstrel heritage. While that act may not have been a minstrel act, it damn well came off as one when they started doing the slapstick routine.

Ok that might change it a bit, I didn't watch it until the end, so I assumed he just kept singing and doing his impersonation.

I don't really want or care enough to subject myself to the entire thing, so I'll just let it remain in a superposition of quantum-racism.