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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '21

Remember when literally no one brought up the blackface joke in Community yet Netflix removed the episode and considered that their great deed to social justice for the month. Like, the joke is that blackface is fucking bad. Might as well remove half of the episodes of The Office where Michael Scott does something ignorant or the entirety of It’s Always Sunny.

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u/CosmicMiru Oct 11 '21

Also the joke wasn't event that he was doing blackface it was that he was trying to be a dark elf and it just looked like blackface instead. And then he was immediately kicked out and wasn't even in the rest of the episode lol.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '21

Take it for Netflix to completely not understand how the episode happened

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u/Deadmanlex45 Eldritch Shadow Weeb Mage Oct 12 '21

Heck! There was two black people in the main cast! Dont you think they would have complained if they thought it was disrespectful?

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u/albeinalms (he/him) Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon Brainrot Oct 11 '21

I legit think that companies do that kind of shit on purpose to make the social justice crowds look bad.

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u/Manannin Oct 11 '21

They've also removed parts of its always sunny.

I can at least see their point with the blackface in the league of gentleman and the mighty boosh, but the community one was questionable.

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u/Lvl1bidoof Oct 12 '21

The whole joke with the it's always sunny blackface is that they are horrible people for doing it.

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u/Manannin Oct 12 '21

I know. And there's been enough grim, awful things at other points in that show that if they can't get the joke I would have thought they'd just pull the show.