{"id":354118,"date":"2018-03-27T19:29:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T18:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sjw-gets-owned-after-demanding-white-people-stop-using-digital-blackface\/"},"modified":"2018-03-27T19:29:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T18:29:50","slug":"sjw-gets-owned-after-demanding-white-people-stop-using-digital-blackface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sjw-gets-owned-after-demanding-white-people-stop-using-digital-blackface\/","title":{"rendered":"SJW Gets Owned After Demanding White People Stop Using \u2018Digital Blackface\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cYou should stop using GIFs\/videos of black women for your own personal self-expression\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>March 26, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blue check social justice warrior Andy Baio was roasted by the internet after he tweeted out a demand that white people stop using \u2018digital blackface\u2019 \u2013 meaning gif images of black people\u2019s reactions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Presumably working out of his mother\u2019s basement, Baio tweeted out a link to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenvogue.com\/story\/digital-blackface-reaction-gifs\">Teen Vogue article<\/a> from last year which made the ridiculous argument that it is racist for white people to post images of black people to emphasize their own feelings.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And if you&#8217;re white, please read up on digital blackface and why you should stop using GIFs\/videos of black women for your own personal self-expression. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cxWPKp4bn2\">https:\/\/t.co\/cxWPKp4bn2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Baio (@waxpancake) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/waxpancake\/status\/978335300144386048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The article attempts to link black reaction gifs on the internet to Blackface minstrelsy\u00a0dating back to the early 19th century, where white people would \u2018black up\u2019 and dance around for the entertainment of a white audience.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC even got in on the act, with writer Victoria Princewill claiming that white people employ black gifs on social media to \u201cblacken up,\u201d a form of cultural appropriation that is actually coded racism.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cyq6fTYxztc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinstrel shows depicted black people in all sorts of negative ways. They were mocking, demeaning stereotypes and they exaggerated black people\u2019s facial features and their expressions,\u201d Princewill states in the video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd digital blackface is the 21st century version of that,\u201d Princewill claimed, also adding that it is a problem for white people to use dark-skinned emojis.<\/p>\n<p>The reactions at the time were predictable, with many calling out Princewill and the Vogue writer Lauren Michele Jackson as the \u2018real racists\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The implication these people are making is that white people\u00a0should only use gifs of white people to express themselves, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/lol-sjw-gets-owned-after-demanding-white-people-stop-using-digital-blackface.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou should stop using GIFs\/videos of black women for your own personal self-expression\u201d Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comMarch 26, 2018 Blue check social justice warrior Andy Baio was roasted by the internet after he tweeted out a demand that white people stop using \u2018digital blackface\u2019 \u2013 meaning gif images of black people\u2019s reactions. 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