We do have blue banded bees in Australia

Well you're gonna be left wondering, since you'll probably throw any evidence out as "woke CRT mind virus propaganda"

Because that's where the gun violence problems are.

“But the move appears to have backfired and been abandoned after it prompted a flood of internet memes, cartoons and jokes by TV hosts about the importance of consent.”

After the government introduced ‘Hug a Cow Day’…. No shit?

Blackface isn’t really considered offensive in Asia, except by those who have learnt this from the West. It would be similar to wearing a yellow wig and powder on your face to act as a white person for comedic effect.

It happened on China’s state-owned TV and was supposed to be an African dance to celebrate Chinese ties with Africa.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lunar-newyear-china-gala-idUSKBN2AC0BK

Also many times in Japan, kind of like cos-playing black celebrities.

https://www.vox.com/platform/2015/3/17/8230783/japan-racism-blackface

For that matter, dressing up as Hitler or Nazi would also not be horribly offensive. There’s just no cultural/historical legacy there and so few of the sociological group who would be offended.

Nice! Finally the Indian men can have some experience and a girlfriend before their arranged marriage.

Laurel!

>“My bees were too dark,” Mr. Huter recalled being told. ...

>To conform with the law, Mr. Huter would have to replace his dark queens with light-gray ones.

>Oh please that’s all policy is created on anymore is people’s feelings so what are you on about?

Do you think we should be making important life changing decisions based off of claims where no supporting evidence is provided, or is it just the claims you make?

>also your other two points are snarky and useless

Snarky, yes, useless no. Consider it constructive criticism on your writing style, which uses a lot of words to say nothing in an attempt to sound bipartisan even though I really don't care what your political alignment is. I just want you to support your claims.

Blue and black... no, wait, white and gold... no, wait...

It's the immigrant's/tourist's/expat's/visitor's responsibility to observe their surroundings and learn the culture, so that they can avoid egregious mistakes. Locals tend to be understanding of small slip-ups, but they won't be so accepting if someone pisses in the plaza fountain as people tend to do in that person's home country.

The idea that a childcare worker thought blackface is a good way to celebrate black history month would be flipping hilarious if not for the fact that impressionable kids were involved.

If she's been here long enough to be able to get a job in childcare, she's been here long enough to know that blackface pisses a lot of people off.

Oh course Republicans would get upset with protecting children from sexual predators

How about you take your smug jaqing off to a different website.
No one needs a 'civil debate' in which you make poor analogies to excuse blatantly shitty behaviour.

now none of them will ever be able to enter into toddler politics

Like I said, it's Reddit, so it's an extremely common and predictable reaction to refuse to converse like an adult. So common that I knew there was a decent chance you'd do so right away, and was correct.

Have a nice day.

Nobody is making you post here buddy. If you don't want to take part in the conversation you don't have to.

But don't act high and mighty because I'm not playing along with your tedious attempts to move the goalposts.

Edit - If you block me I can't read your disingenuous replies about how nobody wants to engage in civil discourse.

> Secondly there's a big difference between accidentally using a loaded phrase with painting my fucking face black. And this is about painting other people's children's faces for black history month.

Both are examples of things you can do out of ignorance. Especially if you're a recent immigrant. And yes, they're relevant for that reason.

I'm sorry that you chose to ignore the question and refuse a civil answer, even after I predicted that you might do so. I can see that there's no point in continuing this conversation, so I won't waste my time.

First of all, I live in Australia and as such actively make an effort to learn about first nation cultures.

Secondly, there's a big difference between accidentally using a loaded phrase and painting my fucking face black. And this is about painting other people's children's faces for black history month.

Why do I have to pick from two made up examples, neither of which are relevant to this story? Get out of here with your false equivalencies.

Let's lay out a scenario here. How many Australian Aboriginal people do you know? Based on your time of posting, I'm going to guess it's probably zero.

Say you moved to Australia and worked with a coworker who was Aboriginal. And ignorant of the cultural context, you said something incredibly offensive. (I won't list examples, but suffice it to say that there are certain words you shouldn't use, the local equivalent of the N-word, which nonetheless are pretty close to other words in standard English.)

Would you appreciate being labeled as a vile racist, and agree with the assessment, resigning immediately? Or would you apologize for your action and your ignorance, and hope that you'd be forgiven if you promise it wouldn't happen again?

Because this is Reddit and people often dodge the point to try and argue on tangents or unrelated topics: Please answer the question directly before making another comment. Choose one of the two options above.

My guess is you're on the right track (ba dum tss). I refuse to believe that they bought or designed trains without knowing the dimensions of the tunnels.

I was just having this conversation and this example came up.

"oh its not racist his skin is black because of the soot from coming down the chimney"

Well why does he have an afro then? 🙃

if it sounds like corruption and it smells like corruption.

it's probably corruption or someone forgot to change trump's diapers again.

Zwarte Piet is racist as fuck though, it's not a innocent mistake. You don't accidentally dress up in blackface and paint your lips red.

I don't understand why people refer to the 'cultural context of blackface in America' as if blackface isn't offensive in the rest of the world..