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Re:No More Movies by dbt00 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:15PM (#27751480)
I mean, this already happened. Ted Danson was semi-cancelled in the early 90s for wearing blackface to a Friar's Club roast of his then-girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg.

Blackface being problematic isn't something we just figured out in the last 12 years, and people trying to do something funny with it anyway isn't new either.

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Re:No More Movies by psychomugs on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:59PM (#27752066)
I don't disagree with the fact that blackface is an old phenomenon, I think RDJ's prodigal-son-returns factor and headlining a tentpole summer blockbuster helped brace the impact a bit.
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