White people who post a gif of a black person doing a caricature-like double take or over-the-top reaction?

None of the above, grow up snowflake.

1. Generally, GIF sharers aren't sharing the images to be made fun of, they're sharing the images because that is how [bold]they[/bold] feel.

2. This is a race baiting thread that you're trying to start about "digital blackface." Yes, that is the term. If you genuinely cared about that particular issue you wouldn't start this kind of thread "HERE."

OK, R2, where should I have started it? This is the only message board I post on. I just wondered if it is as off-putting to other people as it is to me. And I wonder what people of color think about it.

Yawn.

Whitney says...

Gifs convey my feelings about someone or something. The actors in said gif don’t need to match my pale skin - that’s the beauty of feelings; they‘re universal.

WTF is wrong with OP?

Gurl Please!

Can the blacks use a Sure Jan gif OP?

R2, Reddit, Twitter or run a google search for "Digital Blackface."

If this is the only place you post on then you already know what's going to happen with this discussion.

*sigh*

OP take the hint

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I suppose there wouldn't be such gifs if there wasn't scenes of black actors doing said caricature-like double take or over-the-top reactions.

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I agree OP. There's something off-putting about it because of the history of the way whites have treated blacks.

Thanks for reminding me OP. You got to admit, with 66 million views, it's a catchy tune.

Yes they is.

[quote] It seems like a form of patronization or cultural appropriation or something equally inappropriate

Sigh. Those of you so worried about cultural appropriation, could you please stop “celebrating” St Patrick’s Day with green wigs, binge drinking and claiming a cultural identity because your great-great-great grandmother may have come from Ireland.

In spite of the Orange Shit Ass, it is time to stop the tribalism. We are not black, white, red, yellow, green. We are all just humans!

OK, snowflake.

Grow up, people use gifs to show how they are feeling. The race of the people on the gif is totally irrelevant

Can this site ever get back to Naked Men! (of every color)

(sniff, sniff!)

Gaaah. That's the odor of shit being stirred, isn't it, OP?

To the people dismissing OP's VERY VALID argument I ask you this question: How many of you are actually minorities? I'm one, and I agree with OP.

^^^ Uh, huh. And I'm the Queen of Belarus . . .

Gay Men are a minority.

Gay Men are a minority.

OP, i agree with you. Unfortunately most people ares not intelligent enough to come up with a good reply or response so they go to the cheap and easy gif.

Hm. I really think there's an important point to be made here about how flippant white people are at slipping into "Ebonics" or the "sassy black woman/gay" trope when they want to be funny or make a point.

It is especially suspect when people use GIFs of a black person and you comment on the individual/content from which the GIF is sourced and they don't know who they are. At least pretend you're using the GIF because you're a fan of the individual/content of its source!

These images make me cringe in the same way that I cringe when some elderly person trots out old racial or ethnic stereotypes as "funny.". Funny how they are aware enough to know that it will offend, and aware enough to know that a lot of people will give them a pass because they have two feet and one hand already in their grave. And yet that stuff hasn't been accepted as "funny" in decades.

Gifs of Antoine Dodson and Rodney King and neck-rolling by Atlanta housewives really isn't colorblind at all - and everyone knows it.

R33: and those with common sense and an understanding of intersectionality are an even larger minority!

Way to derail the conversation. As if nonwhite gays don't exist. Did you forget they built most of the culture?

My BF is black, and isn't the least bit offended by them. If he were, I'd shift my response accordingly.

R38: lol, praying for your boyfriend to realize how trashy you are.

OP, Kenya Moore has a message for you:

[quote]I'm white

Then it's not your hill to die on, is it?

I suspect that OP started this thread to collect all the resulting gifs.

R37 built most of what culture??

OP SUuuuuure you're white.

Who is R32 and R33?

This thread smells of righteous indignation and “wokeness.”

Here you go, OP.

Like all things, one needs to go back to the source, I blame Gary Coleman.

Every once in a while I see one that's been edited to make black people look like old racist stereotypes but that's pretty rare. Otherwise it's just people typing in "lol" on the Twitter gif search and posting what they like.

As you've already been told, posting this kind of question on Datalounge is basically trolling.