Hm. Wasn’t paying a ton of attention to the apparently not-hypothetical you were posing so...Semi-Hot Take:

As an E39 owner, as well, you should probably mainly be concerned about window regulators and the cooling system.

Their actual skin color. If the people you respond to are like me, they probably think that that is implied.

It is incredibly pedantic to pretend that people were not aware that the costume itself was not literally blackface.  They knew what it was shorthand for, you knew, and you’re shoehorning this in as an example of the ‘overreach’ of cultural appropriation arguments when it’s anything but.

No.  Just... no.  There is literally no argument for ‘cosplay accuracy’ being so damn important that white people doing a particular cosplay need to darken their skin in order to cosplay as another race. 

Jeryyk’s really attached to their ‘middle of the road’ crap that seems to always defend and excuse racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, etc., etc.,… (and defending billionaires, too)

More interested now than before, I’ll give you that. It just seemed extremely odd to hear your point of view when most native American points of view I’ve come across/interacted with regarding to the subject at hand have been wildly different than yours. No culture is a monolith, but I’d rather respect the opinions of…

*I don’t think it is all that weird for this guy.

What the actual fuck? Where have you been in the last 10 years, under a rock? Were you aware at all of the hundreds of thousands of posts on Black Twitter and countless articles written about the Kartrashians (being the most visible example) darkening their skin, putting cornrows in their hair, getting big booty…

Yeah it’s telling that he came in to a conversation about appropriation of Asian culture and was like "ALSO I WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO BLACKFACE!"

“Fucking dumb isn’t it.”

As someone whose culture is close to Thai, i would love to see our traditional garment/design to be use (respectfully) by overwatch cast.

So to use a community that, from a day to day standpoint, don’t even think about America, as the litmus test for whether or not America is doing them dirty by replacing Japanese actors with White actors is kind of a false equivalence.

Cosplayers dress as asian characters whose skin tones do not match theirs all the time and I have never seen a single one of them recolor their skin for authenticity of costume. Why is it deemed necessary when they want to cosplay black characters?

Man you really wanna wear blackface.

“the design team only knows how to make costumes for slender white ladies" isn't the defense you think it is.

Can you give a specific example of “black face” being used inappropriately by Americans? I’m curious about that. I’ve not seen one yet, but that’s because so many Americans, Canadians, and Europeans love to do straight-up honest-to-god blackface that it may be obscuring more corner-case stuff.

Some people are desperate to shoehorn their “edgy” take into any conversation.

Lol your example is terrible.

Exactly. Blackface has a long racist past, and a specifically racist past.