CNN: if you’re white, you may be guilty of “Digital Blackface”

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A REACH. 

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So my gifs now have to be white, male and I guess they have to be around 30 as well or else age misrepresentation

 

Some ppl are too much. This sh*t distracts from ACTUAL racism and just makes ppl who don't take it seriously think they proved a point that progressives are wacko (cuz they are gonna put such ppl in the same category)

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27 minutes ago, LIKELADYAGAGA said:

After reading the full article, it's more nuanced than the headline suggests. The author communicates that if you're White and you use Black stereotypes as humor, that's insensitive. The article explains that it's not using the gifs that's the problems, it's if it perpetuates a Black stereotype for laughs or not.

Ah I see. So the title is dramatic.

 

I always criticize how clickbait and dramatic and misleading titles are and how ppl should read carefully before commenting because of it.

 

And now I myself fell for the same sh*t

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44 minutes ago, tomdsgn said:

I’m crying 😂

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26 minutes ago, PunkTheFunk said:

I know everyone wants to laugh this off but I see some truth in this. The gifs you use online are meant to be an extension of your own expressions and emotions. Using a gif of a POC is not inherently wrong but it becomes a problem when that gif usage begins to caricaturize a segment of the population. I find gifs of women, especially black women tend to be prevalent on these forums, especially in contexts of humor or anger, and I often wonder if there is some underlying bias there. I am not saying I am not guilty of this because I use plenty of gifs too. Just something to think about.

I think this is a perfectly fair and reasonable take to keep in mind about bias and what stereotypes it may perpetuate

 

However it has also been presented as usage in general automatically becomes digital blackface and I think that's a bit of a reach

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Yay more division and ragebait headlines

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26 minutes ago, iamamiwhoami said:

So it means you can only use those gifs if you’re black, doesn’t it?

soon you won’t be able to quote them either

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Jesus Christ people…

Maybe read the article before going into reactionary mode 

All they’re saying is maybe you should question yourself if you’re a white person and every gif you use is black wonen acting in a stereotypical way

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This thread alone is a good display of who actually bothers to read an article and who only reads the headlines.

Interesting observational science. 

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1 hour ago, Kimmo said:

I can’t y’all 

Maybe you shared that viral video of Kimberly “Sweet Brown” Wilkins telling a reporter after narrowly escaping an apartment fire, “Ain’t nobody got time for that!” 

But if you’re White, you may have inadvertently perpetuated one of the most insidious forms of contemporary racism.

You may be wearing “digital blackface.”

I guess I'm really screwed because I own a Sweet Brown tee-shirt with the famous words on them. 

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« May » not « are », no point in extrapolating the title of the article

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Iv seen a few users try to rationalise this above but this sounds like another "white saviour esq" concept which fails to validate the feelings and plight of real black people before telling us how to feel 

Also, i feel like gifs originate from pieces of media that are generally calculated to garner attention so this article is a bit counter productive. Are you trying to help bring awareness to black issues or alienate us? 

[Lucas 31,130]

That's the main problem with Internet nowadays. People trying to find problems and making up society issues everywhere, because "being woke" is trendy, it's absolutely unbearable.

I'll never forget once on this forum I wrote that Gaga's parents are divorced because I genuinely thought they were divorced, and someone quoted me saying that I say that because Gaga's dad is a Trump supporter and that I'm trying to push some democratic agenda that Gaga's mom should not be married to a republican 

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Woke culture has gone too far 

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1 hour ago, River said:

using meme/gif with POC means you don't care what is the color of the person in the meme/gif, you use it to because of the expression of the person and not the color of the person.

CNN trying to find a problem so badly

A white friend of mine also commented on my use of memes lol (I'm not white) Some people just can't have fun