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French show criticized for putting rape victim in blackface to protect her identity
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Oh geez I wanna see this "research".
Japan hogging it to themselves.
No fake mustache? This is stupid as hell. Going to hide my identity, but still have my face out there. Ok.
I've heard there's software to undo it, but I don't know if that's real or an urban legend. This is a pretty ridiculous alternative though. Just put her in the dark like they do on Dateline.
They couldn't use her silhouette and alter her voice?
I'm not going to criticize her decision to engage in an interview, as someone who has interviewed victims of sexual assault, they either fall into one of two camps: they don't want to be involved in a sometimes very shitty legal process, or they want to confront their attacker openly.
I will say that none of the victims I knew ever wanted to put on a wig or costume, let alone blackface.
I'm not going to criticize her decision to engage in an interview, as someone who has interviewed victims of sexual assault, they either fall into one of two camps: they don't want to be involved in a sometimes very shitty legal process, or they want to confront their attacker openly.
I will say that none of the victims I knew ever wanted to put on a wig or costume, let alone blackface.
Blurring the face or using a silhouette is much too hard, best go for blackface.... Fucking ridiculous.
There is indeed software that can undo it mosic and other blur effects. However, this is just weird, why not just put on a mask?
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Like, I can totally imagine the scenario where an incredibly convincing and charismatic (obviously white) make-up artist convincing the host and everyone involved that this is a great idea lol
I wouldn't be surprised if sept à huit probably thinks silhouette means blackface
To be fair, it appears very likely that the show would've put her in a mask sporting the face of a black woman.
My thoughts exactly. I even laughed at the absurdity of it just like Brass Eye.
I feel like this does a worse job than the usual outline + voice distortion effect to hide her face. Like you can still see prominent facial features.
Also racist.
Also racist.
There's the yearly "blackface during Black History Month" news I've not been looking forward to.
My research indicates that we'll get a hell of a lot more views on this episode if we do something abhorrently racist.
Anyone else find some shit so blatantly and absurdly racist that your first reaction isn't even anger, but just to laugh at how fucked up it is? Like what in the actual fuck
Like, what they were doing before was perfectly fine. I really don't understand why they spent actual money for this and how exactly nobody said that this would be a non starter. But with the way TF1 is 99% white, I can see how that happened.
i wonder ifHarry Roselmack (the TV host who's black) tried to fight it.
i wonder ifHarry Roselmack (the TV host who's black) tried to fight it.
What the fuck. Not only is that offensive but it also is the worst disguise ever.....
She looks like she has a tan and a perm, who is that going to trick!?!
Jesus.
She looks like she has a tan and a perm, who is that going to trick!?!
Jesus.
Sheer idiocy aside, if we knew who she was, we could probably see through the disguise, so I don't see how this would even enter someone's mind as an effective disguise.
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The shows host is black and defends the choice because it's in a context that is devoid of satire or mockery, and they only wanted to protect her anonymity.
Obv a dumb take regardless.
So, obviously this was a really stupid way to do this, but if I had to guess, the idea was maybe to avoid blur and distort to keep a more human element to the person telling their story? That's pretty much the only reason I could imagine, but i mean the clear solution is have a stand in surely?
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