Appropriating superficial physical characteristics and deplorable personas to create a derogatory stereotype.
BBT is all about applying Nerd Pastiche to actors and having them behave like sociopaths.
The big difference between BBT and the Jim Crow character is that the Nerds are painted as lovably naive goofballs who just need to be "fixed" by their normie friends. BBT ends up being an eight season long My Fair Lady. Where as the default assumption in Minstrel Shows is that Jim Crow can never be redeemed no matter how hard naive white liberals try.
I'm talking only about the use of the term blackface. I don't think it's an accurate description and it's tone deaf to centuries of racism at best.
Appropriating superficial physical characteristics and deplorable personas to create a derogatory stereotype.
BBT is all about applying Nerd Pastiche to actors and having them behave like sociopaths.
The big difference between BBT and the Jim Crow character is that the Nerds are painted as lovably naive goofballs who just need to be "fixed" by their normie friends. BBT ends up being an eight season long My Fair Lady. Where as the default assumption in Minstrel Shows is that Jim Crow can never be redeemed no matter how hard naive white liberals try.
This isn't what blackface is, so I don't know if you're trying to explain how this doesn't apply or it does.
It's literally putting grease paint, fake lips, and kinky hair on your head.
Which means nothing without the context of the behavior and the culture from which it springs and what it is intended to achieve.
It's a bad term to invoke, man, just drop the parallel and your argument can stand fine on its own.
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