7. "The wave of removing problematic content from platforms is offensive" In response to In response to 0 Wed Jul-01-20 10:43 AM by MEAT
Recently Hulu and Netflix pulled an episode of Golden Girls for having mudmasks ... they said it was blackface reasons, it was not blackface.
They also pulled an episode of Community where Chang is dressed as a dark elf, BLACK skin, white wig ... they said it was blackface reasons, it was not blackface.
In neither of those two things cited was it lampooning or mocking Black people, performing minstrel, or anything even touching blackface.
Today my Youtube recommended me an SNL skit about "Thomas Jefferson Meets Sally Hemings"
Summary: Thomas Jefferson (Robert De Niro) meets his new slave, Sally Hemings (Maya Rudolph), and quickly becomes infatuated with her. His fellow statesmen (Jimmy Fallon, Chris Parnell) comment that he's known for only dating "black chicks."
That's more offensive than any of the fake blackface or real blackface episodes that I've seen before. But this content is still up because the corporations aren't doing the actual work to learn why some of their shit is problematic and that's a problem.
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