Comment on UK cinema chain won’t screen new Ali G film
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 6 days agoThis might be news but blackface also is a white person pretending to be a racist black stereotype.
Guess you’re just so racist that you can’t tell how racist Sasha Cohen is anymore. The successful normalization of racism. Brought to you by Ali G.
alekwithak@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Sorry, what? Ali G exists to poke fun white brits appropriating black culture. I’m not a fan, but we have to call things what they are.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
And there it is
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
It’s not a black stereotype, it’s a stereotype of a white person who appropriates black culture. It’s not making fun of black culture itself.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Just a guy imitating all the worst racist tropes of stereotypical racist black culture as right wing media pushes it. But he’s white! So now he can wear a Jamaican outfit and talk with a Jamaican accent and do racist tropes… While being white!
And he’s called Ali. A very white name!
By the way remind me how long it took SBC after th
alekwithak@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Mhm, okay so are you black?
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
The fact that you see whatever Ali G did as “black culture” instead of racist caricatures really tells it all.