Comment on UK cinema chain won’t screen new Ali G film
alekwithak@lemmy.world 6 days agoSorry, 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.
Comment on UK cinema chain won’t screen new Ali G film
alekwithak@lemmy.world 6 days agoSorry, 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
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
A guy imitating a white person imitating racist black stereotypes. The joke isn’t “Look at this ridiculous behavior which is representative of black people”, the joke is “Look at this ridiculous white person imitating racist stereotypes”. The punchline isn’t black culture, the punchline is cringey white guys. Ali G is more often than not the butt of the joke.
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.
alekwithak@lemmy.world 6 days ago
The fact that you make memes comparing Dolly Parton to Hitler should have been a heads up to me that just because someone can write that doesn’t mean they’re literate.