It's likely that you are coming from a privileged background. Minorities and marginalized communities see the world differently than you do. They have been subjected to centuries of torture and abuse through various means, including drawings and art. Orientalism is still a massive problem in western societies where presumption of immigrants/immigrant culture can be seen as an academic past time and even profitable if you know your audience. Same goes for artists and writers in America talking about how black people are lazy and/or prone to violence, for literally hundreds of years. I would ask anyone here who see nothing wrong with Charli to imagine for a minute they are an average black man living on the streets of America and the terrible injustices they face every day of their lives. The institutional racism. The designed poverty. The struggle to find good jobs. From going to a store, walking in your neighborhood, to getting pulled over for no reason. And then opening TV and listening to white gammons talking about how lazy you are and how you all should just listen to cops. Why dont you just listen to the cops??? And what about the black on black violence in Chicago??? There is literally no end to the amount of crap minorities face in America. Going back to drawings, we have a sordid history of "cartoons" and drawings for centuries in the form of Jim Crow stereotypes.
Marginalized communities KNOW when they are being picked at. Listen to them. If they tell you it's hurtful, stop. Please. We can fight for the ideals of free speech in some other ways but leave the marginalized communities alone. For far too long we have barreled forward without giving a single fuck about what black/brown people want, for far too long we have trivialized their experiences, for far too long we have brushed away their concerns under disguise of free speech and patriotism. It's time we stopped the bulldozer and listened to people who say it's hurting them.
