Let's think for a second. How often do grownups cosplay sheep? Now what percentage of people cosplay sheep while painting their face black? Now you want me to believe these people skipped a more traditional sheep cosplay for one with a black painted face & chose to do so with no thought or relation to blackface.I find that hard to believe. What's more believable is that the whole cosplay was planned around a single joke. The joke being that they'll do blackface with the plausible deniability of a normal Halloween costume. Now whether you think the joke itself is unacceptable or not is irrelevant to the fact that racism is clearly the joke. It doesn't make sense to deny that.
Here is the original. It's from a Vietnamese bar. I don't speak Vietnamese nor know the current culture someone that speaks Vietnamese hmu and lmk the context. If I was wrong I'll amend everything I said and own it.
You're choosing to view this as racist despite the fact that there is no mention of race whatsoever. Bad reasoning here. Something doesn't have to mention race for it to deal with race. That's a ridiculous thing to assert and I'm sure you don't even agree with this. My point is that the joke is blackface here. The camera to the arm showing the paint not being able to come off easy then panning to it being on their face is clearly for shock value... What is invoking the shock? White people with black paint covering their face... Which also looks like blackface which is socially a no no. It's not a hard sequence to follow.
Actually there is a chance they're correct about this situation, but I'm waiting for further information. The original TikTok is a Vietnamese bar so I'm hoping a Vietnamese person can give context (I'm not going to pretend to understand Vietnamese popular culture).
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u/LordZarbon 7d ago edited 6d ago
Let's think for a second. How often do grownups cosplay sheep? Now what percentage of people cosplay sheep while painting their face black? Now you want me to believe these people skipped a more traditional sheep cosplay for one with a black painted face & chose to do so with no thought or relation to blackface.I find that hard to believe. What's more believable is that the whole cosplay was planned around a single joke. The joke being that they'll do blackface with the plausible deniability of a normal Halloween costume. Now whether you think the joke itself is unacceptable or not is irrelevant to the fact that racism is clearly the joke. It doesn't make sense to deny that.https://www.tiktok.com/@theheobistro?_t=ZT-8vEjJPzRkQI&_r=1
Here is the original. It's from a Vietnamese bar. I don't speak Vietnamese nor know the current culture someone that speaks Vietnamese hmu and lmk the context. If I was wrong I'll amend everything I said and own it.