re: #314 Feline Fearless Leader

I’d say that it is something where you can’t point at a single particular detail and say it made it “racist” whereas another detail did not. Sort of a collective effect where you *know* it’s racist. The whole performance went way over the line in multiple ways.

On a separate note burning or mauling a political figure in effigy as part of a protest is well established*. Doing so as part of what is supposed to be generally non-partisan entertainment is something else, and part of what makes this incident particularly repulsive.

* - And there is also some ground within political satire. Though usually there is some measure of restraint and respect shown in the established media.

I agree with most of what you typed. But if you do take it piece by piece, the only thing that makes sense in a racial context is playing on the stereotype of the masks lips. The simple fact of wearing the mask can’t be racist (unless it was blackface, this was just a halloween mask). Saying we’re gonna stomp Obama is ridiculously inappropriate and, as DecaturDeb said, “extreme seditious partisanship”.

I don’t know, I sound like I’m making excuses for it to “not” be racism.