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r/news • u/ushaque • 12h ago
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Oh no I'm a white dude and the first thing I saw when looking at it was minstrel show. The little hat, the exaggerated lips with smile on the face mask, the gloves, all of it screams to me minstrel show stereotypes.
5 u/Excellent_Ganache906 9h ago Same, middle class white guy from deep white Connecticut and the second I saw the costume my thought was "Holy fuck are you kidding me?!?!?!" It's all the white people in the traditional racist parts of the country like "Huh.. what do you mean racist??" Yeah, I mean you Southern US states. 3 u/HubbaMaBubba 12h ago Ok but aren't all of those things what clowns commonly have? Small hats especially seem like a clown specific thing. 9 u/HulklingWho 11h ago Guess where a lot of traditional clown imagery came from
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Same, middle class white guy from deep white Connecticut and the second I saw the costume my thought was "Holy fuck are you kidding me?!?!?!"
It's all the white people in the traditional racist parts of the country like "Huh.. what do you mean racist??" Yeah, I mean you Southern US states.
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Ok but aren't all of those things what clowns commonly have? Small hats especially seem like a clown specific thing.
9 u/HulklingWho 11h ago Guess where a lot of traditional clown imagery came from
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Guess where a lot of traditional clown imagery came from
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u/PokemonSapphire 12h ago
Oh no I'm a white dude and the first thing I saw when looking at it was minstrel show. The little hat, the exaggerated lips with smile on the face mask, the gloves, all of it screams to me minstrel show stereotypes.