>making light of a particularly painful era in Slavic history.
This seems like it was written to shoehorn it into a racist thing instead of just a run-of-the-mill dismissive insult towards a group of people.
This seems like it was written to shoehorn it into a racist thing instead of just a run-of-the-mill dismissive insult towards a group of people.
(If you don't believe this, pay attention to pro-Palestine protests on college campuses.)
Why is it worse for a light skinned woman to play a darker-skinned woman than for a white man to play a black man?
Tropic Thunder got away with blackface for the same reason Saturday Night Live gets away with offensive jokes. It's satire, and they're mocking the offensive acts.
And it's worse because of the history of black face and why it was used