Par for the course for Philadelphia.

To be fair, I'm comparing it with an AWESOME Mike Myers skit.

I was talking about represent in the acting sense, not in the writing sense. You gotta admit that every time you go back twenty years to see a white person doing what was thought of as socially acceptable racial stuff, it's almost always icky (Mike Myers yellowface on SNL?).

Yeah, Dave Chappelle's white-guy impressions haven't had a lasting and systemic effect on how white people are perceived in society, and if they have it's not like white people have suffered from it.

Well, the whole soprano bit explains the lack of research or thought in the article.

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Not if I combine it with my Matrix fanfic, it isn't

I've seen this discussion pop around before, and each time there's a huge debate over exactly what "blackface" is. For what it's worth, every definition I've found online has specified that it's exaggerated caricature.

I don't know why everyone's even like "did you bother reading the book/watching the movie" when you can just as easily ask "did you google the movie". Like, for real, you can refute this article eight times with two minutes on a search engine.

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But this isn't yellowface or blackface. Yellowface is a caricature of asian appearance, which is different from making-up-a-white-person-to-appear-asian. Likewise, Billy Crystal's makeup at the Oscars wasn't blackface; it was a very specific skin tone meant to reflect the actual skintone of a black performer, and kept…

Eh. I'm an atheist and I really can't find a rational justification for theism, but I still create theistic music and music that comes from a theistic tradition precisely because it expresses a feeling that, however misinformed, is part of the human experience.

The article author isn't coming from anywhere other than total ignorance of the film. This isn't even borderline; it's a multiracial cast playing all sorts of races and types, and doing so in a way that seeks some level of passing authenticity rather than caricature. It's the precise opposite of -face.

Art isn't just about notions that can or can't be true. They're about feelings and emotional experiences. Our experiences of consciousness and self are very different from what consciousness and self actually appear to be, but the truth of brain and personality development doesn't mean that all art must now reflect…

I guess you're unaware that in the same film, Xun Zhou plays a white woman, as does Halle Berry. They're not excluding the voices of asian actors; having the same actor playing multiple characters of multiple races/appearances is crucial to the meaning and storytelling, and it's going in many directions.

I don't think it's a positive thing, but I think considering the nature of American education, demographics, and geography it's reasonable that a well-educated, curious person can reach adulthood and still not be fluent in another spoken language. It's likely that in the coming generation, this will change.

Yeah, I grew up in Southern California and Spanish is almost completely non-essential unless you're running a business that handles a lot of immigrant labor.

Well, why don't you just keep calling them stupid, then.

Because I thought I had something meaningful & pressing to say, and by the the time I realized that that urge had gone away, I'd already built up a skill set that I enjoyed using and that was capable of generating income & satisfaction, so now I do it because it is fun and/or allows me to purchase foodstuffs and rent.

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