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SaltyAndSweet posted...

Despite people online reacting impulsively, I think most people have enough common sense to know that there is a big difference between someone making themselves look darkskinned as a costume that isnt trying to be poor taste or they are doing an impersonation of a specific individual, and people who do it in bad faith to mock and perpetuate negative stereotypes against ethnic groups.

I'd still say this was in poor taste, but the key difference is in how he reacted to it. When somebody who's done blackface in the past apologizes for it and generally acts in a manner that indicates they recognize it was wrong and they are more sensitive to the issue now, forgiving them is reasonable. When somebody who's done blackface in the past starts going on about their "right to free expression" and "snowflake cancel culture" and "fascist political correctness" without ever actually admitting it was in poor taste or apologizing for it, there's not much reason to forgive them for it.

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