• vaguerant@fedia.io
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    12 hours ago

    Exactly, the joke they are making is simply not racist in nature. At the same time, the idea that using blackface to make a joke about entrenched Hollywood racism trivializes the harm of using blackface isn’t unreasonable. It’s a layered issue, people can land in different places. Ultimately though, the controversy over Tropic Thunder, then and now, being so minimal does indicate that for most viewers, the joke justified itself.

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      6 hours ago

      Borat is explicitly racist, on purpose. It’s just that he is mocking the racists, not the race he is portraying.