D&D General Netflix pulls Community's Dungeons & Dragons episode over blackface concerns

[Orcslayer78]

Most people do not, and have not played D&D. So a reference to Drow based Blackface is going to go over many people’s heads. Pulling the episode from streaming viewership, likely temporarily, is not a dictatorship. It is Capitalism.

Frankly, it is less an inconvenience then holding in flatulence during a funeral service

If you really want to see the episode, buy the DVDs....it is more remunerative for the Artists involved then streaming in most circumstances.

I think every person with a functioning brain can tell the difference between a black face ( brown make up with white lipstick) and a drow costume (black make up with pointy ears and white wig)

 

[Zardnaar]

Or any cosplay at conventions, whenever those happen again, where the person is adjusting their skin color to match the character they are dressed as.

Yep people will just stop doing it so you'll end up with a erm less variety.

 

[Xenonnonex]

I think every person with a functioning brain can tell the difference between a black face ( brown make up with white lipstick) and a drow costume (black make up with pointy ears and white wig)

As common sense is not common -> You would be surprised.

 

[Zardnaar]

As common sense is not common -> You would be surprised.

Common sense rarest element in the universe.

 

[Sadras]

As common sense is not common -> You would be surprised.

So people without common sense, which are many according to you. would be offended because they wouldnt know the difference.

In summation your reply is: Stupid people will be offended.

 

[Orcslayer78]

Or any cosplay at conventions, whenever those happen again, where the person is adjusting their skin color to match the character they are dressed as.

Playing a drow at a larp is sure going to be awkward now.

Yes but playing or cosplaing other races (yes, races! to hell with ancestries) like genasi or githianky will not, why? Because all this story is just a huge pile of hypocrisy.

 

[Imaculata]

I think every person with a functioning face can tell the difference between a black face ( brown make up with white lipsstick) and a drow costume (black make up with pointy ears and white wig)

So, over here in the Netherlands we have one of the greatest themeparks in the world, called The Efteling (and I highly recommend everyone to visit it some time in your life). But one particular attraction has been a bit of a hot issue for a while now. It concerns the attraction Carnival Festival, which is a sort of Its a small world, but with stereotypes of people from around the world. People were very divided on it. On one hand the attraction is a classic, and maybe not such a big deal. But on the other, some of the puppets are a little bit offensive. I should note that minor changes were made to it recently to make it less offensive, but still.

Even among my close circle of friends, some of them got angry at the notion that it was offensive. But as I explained to them, if you take your black or asian girlfriend into that attraction, and you feel a little bit uncomfortable... maybe thats a sign that changes should be made.

I think drow costumes are not that different. If you get a tiny bit uncomfortable wearing full drow face paint in front of your black friend, maybe that is a sign.

Orcslayer, you call it hypocrisy. But could it be that the line of offensiveness is simply a bit blurry?

 

[Xenonnonex]

So people without common sense, which are many according to you. would be offended because they wouldnt know the difference.

In summation your reply is: Stupid people will be offended.

Most people do not have common sense.

 

[Todd Roybark]

If you (collective in this case) cannot eat a specific pizza, you order another pizza off the menu for yourselves.

That is the the exact point, there is no non institutionalized racialized menu to order from.

Some people don’t have the option to just order what they want or need.

The Lizard folk in the Baldur’s Gate CRPG needed to have persons willing to listen, and consider their point of view for a peaceful resolution.

 

[Sadras]

I think drow costumes are not that different. If you get a tiny bit uncomfortable wearing full drow face paint in front of your black friend, maybe that is a sign.

True, but also most people are pretty comfortable with their friends. Generally taboo stuff is accepted between friends.