• Laticauda@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know about the reasoning behind that one specifically, but most leftists I know generally don’t have an issue with that scene because the butt of the joke is the guy inadvertently looking like he’s doing blackface, not black people. If I had to guess, in a lot of cases like those, it’s a corporate decision made by higher ups who don’t understand the nuance of the topic and just want to avoid controversy or try to shallowly virtue signal regardless of how offensive the scene actually was or whether the people they’re virtue signalling to actually wanted them to do it or not.

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      1 year ago

      Just some suit who works for the Mouse and has never heard of a Drow but definitely knows blackface and the controversy it causes. Ironically, probably in large part due to Walt’s prolific racism and the actual blackface scenes they’ve put out over the years.