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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Yes, but was everyone everywhere talking about it prior to around 2010?

    No.

    This was around the same time as the Chappelle show with Chappelle wearing white make-up and impersonating a generic white person.

    Kimmel wasn’t doing a generic black person stereotype, he was imitating a specific person and put on the make-up to look more like that person. Tasteless? Corny? Dumb? definitely. Racist? …. I guess when you’re looking at it through the lens of today’s social discourse, sure.

    Anyway, he stopped doing it prior to blackface becoming everyone’s favourite topic, and apologized when the keyboard warriors went after him years later.

    Times changed and the masses decided this was unacceptable. The message was received and acted upon. People change. Give it a rest.


  • There’s a crazy phenomena since the invention of social media. People learn about things and pretend they knew about them all along.

    Schrodinger’s Cat

    Dunning-Kruger effect

    Blackface

    This is in poor taste, but it is not blackface. Blackface is a specific type of makeup where the lips are made ridiculously red as well.

    This happened sometime before 2005.

    Blackface was not a part of the “social conversation” or whatever at the time. Basically nobody knew about it. Jimmy learned about it and decided to stop doing so it.

    Today he is using his platform to speak out against fascism. Drop it. Screaming to death about imperfect advocates only helps the fascists win.