So if I post a GIF or meme of any person to express a strong emotion other than one of my own race, gender, ethnicity, and age, am I guilty of racism, sexism, ageism, etc.?
What if the image is an animated character? What if the animated character isn't human? Is that a digital offense, too?
The alleged rules are ridiculous.
What is digital blackface?
From CNN:
In trying to define digital blackface, it depends on who you talk to. The standard for some is comparable to what one Supreme Court Justice once said when asked his test for pornography: “I know it when I see it.”
This guidance might help: If a White person shares an image online that perpetuates stereotypes of Black people as loud, dumb, hyperviolent or hypersexual, they’ve entered digital blackface territory.
What if a black person shares an image that perpetuates stereotypes of white people?
What if a man shares an image that perpetuates stereotypes of women? Is that offensive? It certainly must be something akin to "digital blackface territory."
I'm sick of everything being labeled as racist. It's impossible to function with the "I know it when I see it” standard.
The standards are such that everyone can be charged as racist or sexist or ageist at any moment.
Why threaten people this way? Why promote this sort of social paralysis?
It has to stop.
People need to man up.
Oops.
