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Wasn't all Blackface routines of the past meant as comedy? I don't think it was intentionally racist. It's definitely in poor taste if it had been on American TV but it wasn't. It was in Australia which had it's own racism problems and blackface wasn't one of them.
As for Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder, It's completely different in my opinion. Robert Downey was playing a white man doing blackface. Do we also criticize actors because they play Nazis or KKK members or Serial Killers? The racism in Downey Jr.'s character doesn't go unnoticed in the film and he's called on it several times by the black characters in the film.
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