I think that they’re saying that blackface is just as malicious as drag, ie., not malicious at all. But that if they’re not allowed to pretend to be black and make racist jokes, all to celebrate white pride, then why should other people get to “pretend” and celebrate queer joy?
They’re saying “if I can’t do it from a moral standpoint, you can’t do it from a legal standpoint.”
But their actual honest reasoning, the one that they whisper to themselves before going to sleep after praying to white corporate Jesus, is, “fuck those people different than me. I’ll sleep well knowing that I have the power to make others suffer.”
I think that they’re saying that blackface is just as malicious as drag, ie., not malicious at all. But that if they’re not allowed to pretend to be black and make racist jokes, all to celebrate white pride, then why should other people get to “pretend” and celebrate queer joy?
They’re saying “if I can’t do it from a moral standpoint, you can’t do it from a legal standpoint.”
But their actual honest reasoning, the one that they whisper to themselves before going to sleep after praying to white corporate Jesus, is, “fuck those people different than me. I’ll sleep well knowing that I have the power to make others suffer.”