How about every phone number you’ve ever had?  Every address you’ve lived at, every job, every credit card, every name you’ve ever used, anyone who ever co-signed a loan... Combine that with other publicly available information, voter records, criminal databases, etc.  There’s so much there!  Just because the info…

The problem with this plan is why would China (or any government) want millions of Americans Social Security numbers? What are they going to do with the data?

Are you kidding? The real victims here are the upper-level executives and directors! Because of all these additional costs, executive bonuses for fiscal 2019 will probably only increase about 50% instead of doubling. That 3rd vacation home is now just a pipe dream that will need to put off another year.

They should no longer exist. Period. That’s how bad this is.

So what you're saying is vaccines are fkn broken?!?

What about those of us who actually had measles as a child and are relying on the immunity we got from that?

Idiot.  Sounds like you condone such behavior.

I’m merican, ATM, and what she did s 100% absolutely fine. Nothing wrong with it whatsoeever. However, you lumping me in the mix with other so-called freedom to do whatever you pleasers is the only problem I see here.

Blackface is a clearly wrong for an American where historically blackface was used to show harmful stereotypes. But this is someone from Lithuania. I do not know how this would be seen in that culture and I am not comfortable exporting my cultural norms without understanding this aspect. 

How do you go from maybe you shouldn’t do a practice that was historically used to mock black people to nothing is allowed?

“As it stands, white people wearing dark makeup to appear black is the continuation of a practice tied to the mocking of black people, and often enslaved Africans, in the US.”

Judging a Lithuanian who wants to be a black hero by your own convoluted culture doesn’t seem just. And it’s flawed logic to say that it offended some black person somewhere and we shouldn’t offend anyone because it also offended some white supremacist or some religious wackadoo somewhere who thinks it’s disgusting to…

yeah but she’s not in the US is she? Russia? somewhere in eastern Europe?

I’m not suggesting that it’s always ok. In fact, I would argue it usually isn’t. But in this case. THIS CASE. She isn’t trying to be offensive, and going after her like she is just because people want to be pissed about blackface is wrong.

I’m starting to feel like we’re getting to a point where nothing is allowed. I mean, the context here, for example. She isn’t making fun of black people in any way. She’s trying to remain true to the character, who happens to be black. It would be one thing if she had done something deliberately offensive, but she’s…

Because not every country on earth follows the USA Morality guide on Racism?

In México there is no such thing as blackface. You could paint your skin bronze if trying to represent a native and no one would bat an eye.

Making fun of racial stereotypes is a whole other conversation.
In the end, if you are going for a…

Agree, the cosplayer here, did quite a good job on the makeup, if nobody would say, I would think she has black skin. Here, in eastern Europe, we have maybe about 1% of black people in the population, it’s not easy to try to appear as them, because there simply aren’t many occasions to interact with such persons, in…

No, she can’t do that. If she just wear clothes it will be whitewashing .

My friends who think clicking a like button is the same thing as keeping in touch. 

“Friends”?  What are those?