Thursday, October 31, 2019

"Woke me up and tell me why!"

In Spiked, Julie Burchill asks,
So how come Trudeau got away with it?
She is referring to his innumerable experiences wearing "Blackface." She answers her own question.
It’s part of a broader dodge – what the commentator Daniel Norris calls the Wokescreen.

...if the Black and White Minstrels are insulting and reactionary, why aren’t drag queens? If someone can explain to me why race-based parody is bad and sex-based parody ‘a bit of fun’, I’d love to know. Woke me up and tell me why!
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