Comment on UK cinema chain won’t screen new Ali G film

• 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.

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  • 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

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    • 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.

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      • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Is Ali a white name?

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• alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Mhm, okay so are you black?

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Looks like you’re all out of arguments to defend your racism so time to go selective quote shopping

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