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-PC Follies
Don't post Oprah memes if you are not black
2021-03-14
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The Slow Factory Foundation recently issued a waning about digital blackface following Princess Meghan Markle
    ...unlikable American former starlet married to the formerly likable Prince Harry. Chock full of lefty political opinions, Markle's most important characteristic is that she is Black, even though she doesn't look it. Her mother, y'see, is half black and her father is white, which would make her a quarter Black. Her half brother described her (to her husband, before their marriage) as a jaded, shallow, conceited woman that will make a joke of you and the royal family heritage. Once married, she was too good for the Royals and she and Harry decamped to Beverly Hills, kind of like the Clampetts did, thus making a joke of Harry and the royal family heritage...
     and Prince Harry's
     interview with Oprah Winfrey

  • Non-profit defined digital blackface as an online phenomenon where white and non-black people share GIFs and photos of black people to express emotion

  • The organization stated that these memes perpetuate 'negative stereotypes' about black people and are reminiscent of minstrel shows

  • Idea of digital blackface has been around for years, but the term was popularized by writer Lauren Michele Jackson in her 2017 Teen Vogue essay

  • The Slow Factory Foundation said people shouldn't be sharing Oprah reaction memes just because they are popular, prompting mixed reactions

  • Some praised the organization for educating others about digital blackface, while others felt it was going too far and is stupid actually a form of black erasure
Posted by:Fred

#10  When Cameras ["And white folks!"] Attack:
"You stole Oprah's soul! Oh, alack!
Though the likeness be true
Of the stuff that we do,
Still, we'll take back from you --
And the negatives, too! --
All those pictures of Dorian Black."

With sincerest apologies to black Burgers (the both of youse!), not that you'd need'em.
Posted by: Tiny the Rasher of Bacon1474   2021-03-14 23:59  

#9  And now, for something completely different ...
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Grereck3952   2021-03-14 22:26  

#8  Breaking news: Oprah caught with 200 lbs. of crack on her person!
Evidence?
They looked up her skirt.
b'dm-keesh
Posted by: Big Omineth7279   2021-03-14 16:15  

#7  So how bad was the unmarried and childless billionaire's interview with former British royalty and current Disney royalty actress, a career which attracts loose headed people, about her inability to make it one year through holiday dinners with the in-laws?

So bad, the only relatable part is we've all known that serviceman who had his life ruined by marrying a stripper.

The only reason to have Oprah perform this interview, considering her total lack of background, is star power and emotion face, emotion face which earned her first real money as daytime talk show host, so she has established marquee faces, just like the thousand meme of Dr. Phil face. Oprah looks good for her age, she does, but her make-up crew went totally overboard especially with the lipstick.

That is, it was her make-up crew which gave her clown face.

But the first rule about the age of absurdity, is you can't talk about the absurdity.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-03-14 15:47  

#6  You forgot: Only blacks can say the N-word.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-03-14 10:51  

#5  digital blackface
black erasure
white fragility
white privilege

WTF do these word salads mean? Who talks like this?
Do they just sit around, thinking up ridiculous phrases that join abstract words with "black" or "white"?
Or is there an app that generates BS phrases like these?

Maybe two can play the game... how bout:
black extortion
white capitulation
digital blackmania
white Penance
Posted by: Uninese Bonaparte7618   2021-03-14 09:40  

#4  Slippery slope:
next:
-only the obese can mention fat
-only the rich can mention money
-only the smarmy can mention the big O
Posted by: CrankyOldYankee   2021-03-14 07:12  

#3  The Slow Factory Foundation ought to get off of culturally appropriated technology.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-03-14 07:11  

#2  Wouldn't it be great if she only showed up on black people's TVs?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-03-14 05:16  

#1  
Posted by: Black Splat9970   2021-03-14 01:32  

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