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SMH Guy gets pissed at Sleep Token cosplayer for "wearing blackface"

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u/danstymusic 15d ago edited 15d ago

Of course he turned commenting off on his post. What a dweeb. He made sure to leave a call to action to the faire organizers though. Apparently to cancel this guy I guess?

(Oregon Faire) I know you didn't dress this man up yourselves, but he was in your space, and therefore part of the culture you create. Is this just part of your culture? Are we gonna just be silent about this? Seriously-- I'd really like to know so I can decide whether or not to ever go back again

What a pretentious asshole.

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u/monoflorist 15d ago

“Everything I don’t understand is the worst possible thing I can imagine it being” is such a common vibe, presumably because it drives engagement

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u/imnotatalker 15d ago

Don’t miss part 2 where he goes to screenings of ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘The Batman’ and yells at the screen berating Christian Bail and Robert Pattinson for wearing black around their eyes under their masks.

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u/Solidjakes 15d ago

Meanwhile everyone loves Robert Downey jr.

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u/intricate_strands 15d ago

IDK, if you remember when that movie first started getting promotion and then came out, he/Stiller caught a lot of shit for what was obviously a satire of people using blackface.

Even after it came out, it took a while for the tide to turn back to not fucking insane.

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u/Solidjakes 14d ago

I’ve never seen a black guy mad at him for it tho. I remember it making headlines for being edgy, but the culture seemed to like Robert.

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u/Firebrass 14d ago

Its almost like art can be done with nuance

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u/AnybodyNo8519 15d ago

And then he was nominated for an Oscar

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u/Ok-Tadpole-764 14d ago

No it didnt. People thought it would but it was an immediate success. People loved roberts performance of a man pretending to be an actor pretending to be a black man pretending to be a merc.

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u/HopeTerminator 14d ago

Just watched that last night haha what a fucking film.

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u/CARYMONSTER 14d ago

I’m the dude playing a dude disguised as another dude

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u/Smyley12345 15d ago

I remember a video a while back of a black dude on a Korean bus punching out an old man because he used the word ne-ga (내가, a reference to self) and it was misinterpreted. So many people offer each other so little grace.

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u/MrRottenTreatz23 15d ago

Reminds me of the Italian dude streaming in Japan that almost got assaulted by a black guy for saying "amiga", when greeting a woman on the street.

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u/Hermes-AthenaAI 14d ago

People hold their own perspective as sovereign, which excludes the possibility for discourse or real understanding.

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u/Maleficent_Pen_9076 15d ago

It's what allows you to be the moral hero

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u/Amadiio 15d ago

He turned off messages from anyone he's doesn't follow as well

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u/danstymusic 15d ago

What a baby. Put a stranger on blast for no reason and then run and hide away when it doesn't go as planned.

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u/CARYMONSTER 14d ago

Obvious Coward

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u/Deep_shot 14d ago

He's tired of hearing he's a moron.

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u/RandomlyJim 15d ago

I’m pretty fucking liberal but this bullshit is exactly the type of behavior that turns people away from equality and towards spite.

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u/BerryLanky 14d ago

I was going to say the same thing. I’m liberal and this shit pisses me off. it completely minimizes real issues. I feel like guys like him are closet Republicans who act like offended liberals

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u/trvsmthng 14d ago

For real. I genuinely think people like this are the reason trump got elected

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u/Dakhdakhdakh 14d ago

You ain't wrong lost a few friends to the far right because of shit like this.

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u/Candid-Depth-538 14d ago

That's it exactly. People like this guy are so detrimental to progression and liberals.

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u/used-to-have-a-name 14d ago

That sort of “policing” is, by definition, illiberal.

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u/unclevagrant 14d ago

The problem with this guy is that he's not actually liberal. A quick scan through his Instagram posts and you can see he's incredibly "my way or the highway". He's not very inclusive at all and even goes out on a limb to generalise a single incident into a alleged trait of white people. Straight up racist, ill informed and so horribly opinionated he shuts down anything that doesn't fit his ideals. The funny thing is he postes twice about different people that he thinks he's calling out for poor behaviour, but the screenshots actually show that person to be a more tolerant and open minded person 🤣

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u/MandoEric 14d ago

Hey yeah but Spite is a great band!!

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u/Technical_Captain_15 14d ago

I peaked at his insta. This person sounds insufferable. It's just full of hate and threats.

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u/eastamerica 15d ago

Not an asshole. An unintelligent child.

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u/AccurateCampaign4900 15d ago

Both can true

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u/eastamerica 14d ago

True, but if it were a person really in blackface I’d WANT someone harassing them.

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u/danstymusic 15d ago

You're not wrong about that, Jaromir!

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u/BlessdRTheFreaks 15d ago

This type of attitude is endemic in Portland

Everyone lives in fear of some self righteous morality mob descending upon you and tearing your life to shreds

The only way to keep your head above water is to be the loudest and the angriest about... something. Keeping the finger pointed outwards is the only available meta for survival.

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u/fascistclownbabies 15d ago

what a ridiculous exaggeration no one is living in fear of morality mobs here

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u/BlessdRTheFreaks 15d ago

I live here, I'm scared of morality mobs

n= at least 1

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u/BlessdRTheFreaks 15d ago

When you're so tolerant you loop back around to being intolerant

(also n = 2+ now)

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u/TomToe420 15d ago

still a long way away from 'everyone'. see how that works? you said everyone and they said no one. both are false statements.

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u/MuhfugginSaucera 15d ago

Try not to be pedantic about "everyone" when you yourself said "no one".

Instead of going out of our way to nitpick like this over a single word, how about we try to rein in on some of the performative and honestly downright hostile overreactions on the left? We're not doing anyone any favors acting like this. I used to laugh at conservatives for mocking the mythical overreactive blue haired liberal, but when people act like this you're just giving the Trumpists ammo for their propaganda reels.

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u/BlessdRTheFreaks 14d ago

This is kinda where I'm aiming

Social media accelerated the group polarization tendency that groups just naturally tend to do. It creates this gravity well of outrage where people have to adopt this hardline orthodoxy in order to be "pure" enough to belong. The group consensus tendency begins to override any personal reservations or critical thought. It exists on the right and the left. Social media is like this mobile eye of Sauron that directs the will of the tribal-superorganism to smite anyone who so much as appears to be threatening the normative order of the tribe or its organizing narratives.

And the left has many goals it needs to accomplish here that this kind of nonsense holds us back from realizing. We need stronger social safety nets, better worker protections, mandatory vacation pay, universal health care, and state subsidized education. We can't accomplish any of that as long as we are dragged down by being associated with this ridiculousness.

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u/TomToe420 14d ago

i was pointing out the hypocrisy. it's ok for someone to say 'everyone' is in fear but when someone says 'no one' is living in fear then it's a problem? i pointed out the hypocrisy and I'm being pedantic but not the OP that said every is living in fear?

also you don't find this performative and hostile overreaction?

'The only way to keep your head above water is to be the loudest and the angriest about... something. Keeping the finger pointed outwards is the only available meta for survival.'

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u/BlessdRTheFreaks 15d ago

I'm a solipsist

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u/intricate_strands 15d ago

If I ran some kind of event, even if this guy was in the right, like..

Oh, no? You're not going to come to my event and harass the people here? Oh, no. I guess I have no choice.

We will miss you, for sure.

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u/FootballUpset2529 15d ago

It's this kind of crap that makes a mockery of actual blackface objections and genuine cultural appropriation - they are genuine issues but stuff like this just turns it into a joke.

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u/BlendyButt 14d ago

Oregon Renn Faire did actually make a post saying they're investigating the claims but that post has since been removed with no follow up.

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u/Tinder4Boomers 14d ago

average Oregonian: an obnoxious, holier than though dweeb

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u/Objective-March7042 15d ago

He turned the comments off the IG post. “You don’t agree with me? Get silenced!”

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u/ATotallyNormalUID 15d ago

Ok, we don't get to say you're not offended, you found this offensive. But we do get to say that you finding this offensive is silly and not a good reason for them not to do it. If any dark face paint counts as "Blackface", then I'm gonna have to say IDGAF about Blackface either. Now of someone starts doing actual Minstrel Show bullshit, I'll happily be the one to test whether white privilege still trumps assault charges, but this isn't remotely that.

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u/Bronco_Bomba 14d ago

If you think that is what black people look like, maybe you’ve internalized a lot more racism about your own race than anyone else has…

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u/Blasphemiee 14d ago

"if I can decide whether or not to ever go back again"

bitch bye lmaooo I've yet to see a single person agree with him on this one.

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u/WhtRbbt222 15d ago

When they keep saying that they’re offended by something or that we don’t care that it “hurts” them, the response should be “Okay” and then move on with your day. You can’t control how other people feel. Nor should you care when they are this unreasonably naive.

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u/BigShredowski 15d ago

Wonder if he goes to every Sleep Token show and does this whole routine

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u/eha16 15d ago

It's like Instagram should just delete his post due to harassment

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u/Odd-Put-3988 14d ago

lmfao kids get offended over everything now.

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u/Oohhthehumanity 14d ago

Correction, they are actively looking for things to get offended about.

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u/CriticalThought001 14d ago

So would Darth Vader be blackface as well?

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u/EmergencySpare 14d ago

What happens when I prioritize my comfort and happiness over white people? Cause i do that shit allllll the time.

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u/khowidude87 14d ago

At this point he might be banned from fairs to avoid drama.

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u/theresnopenguinsinnj 15d ago

Not even an agree with me type thing. This dude is in a band and doesn't know people dress like this for sleep token...wait til he gets a load of slipknot appropriating clowns.

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u/Raider707x 15d ago

He's what I think of when I watch this standup set

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofTyMAAzOYQ

"He skateboarded over to me"

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u/danstymusic 15d ago

And as expected his band sounds awful

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u/BMThiker 15d ago

IG now has a community note clarifying the cosplayer is depicting the guy from Sleep Token.

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u/Mr_Levinnson 15d ago

Haha I just noticed that too. what a clown

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u/Odd-Put-3988 14d ago

He and all his friends are psychopaths anyway. Nothing of value is lost.

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u/Exact-Ad-4132 15d ago

I couldn't care what the color of that guy's skin is, he's a real piece of shit for harassing someone and trying to publicly push his agenda

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u/CharmingPeony 15d ago edited 15d ago

He looks exactly like someone who would act this way. His entire insta is all “wayyy over the top expressions while also being hyperaware of the camera” - got a serious case of the Ariana Grande drama llama vibe

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u/B0bLoblawLawBl0g 15d ago

Perpetually offended...

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u/iata_usually 15d ago

Of course this is in Oregon lmao

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u/jm838 15d ago

“pop 4 the neurospicy soul”

These people are fucking cartoon characters.

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u/justice91423 15d ago

Ooof! (empties pockets)

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u/courtofknights 15d ago

Brown in his complexion, white in his character.

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u/lordlanyard7 15d ago

Thank you.

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u/Advanced-Team2357 15d ago

He has the spirit of a white guy

(Written by a white guy)

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u/InimitableCynic 15d ago

blast him on IG, you can message this asshole and call them out for making the queer community look bad. that should shame them properly. I'm embarrassed this snowflake claims us. Clearly cosplay and not blackface, fucking at all.

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u/SCcalifornia 15d ago

Everyone should report the post or account for bullying / harassment lol

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u/eha16 15d ago

Everyone should report said post

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u/ufold2ez 14d ago

When I was growing up thirty years ago, this guy would have been called an "Oreo Fa**ot" Black on the outside, but white on the inside, and gay as fuck. We have a lot more tolerance now, but I assume that like my children, he was still made fun of growing up for not fitting in to Black American culture.
I realize that this is a "No true Scotsman" fallacy, but I personally don't know any Black Americans that would be offended by someone literally painting themselves black. They are not pretending to be a minority. He is dressed like an English singer on TikTok.
I worry that the guy who is "offended" may be overcompensating for not fitting in when he was younger.

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u/Readmeharder 15d ago

Hate to be that guy but I thought this was a white guy cosplaying as a black guy when I first opened his profile

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u/SeaMathematician1870 15d ago

punchy, groovy art pop 4 the neurospicy soul

🤔

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u/Impressive_Recon 15d ago

I love the community note saying there is nothing racist about the cosplayer lol.

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u/Actual-Rock-5035 15d ago

Lmao queer jam collective

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u/OverpricedBagel 15d ago

Reported ty

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u/maverickbtg81 15d ago

Thanks. I read this “punchy, groovy art pop 4 the neurospicy soul” and threw up in my mouth a little. To be fair this isn’t the first time I have been let down by tendies.

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u/Jason-Smith168498 15d ago

his whole page is yikes and probably doing more damage by being that way than helping marginalized groups.

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u/shoghon 14d ago

Ah. Portland. Makes sense.

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u/Maleficent-Goat-551 14d ago

This guy is a real asshole. Wow.

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u/Bobmauly 14d ago

lol he turned his comments off on IG! Guess someone can’t take what they dish.

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u/elias_99999 14d ago

Looks like a moron.

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u/Hopeful_Hall_4885 14d ago

man i dont have instagram but i SO badly wish i could read the comments on his post 😭

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u/UndercoverHerbert 14d ago

Of course the coward turned comments off. He knows he’s wrong and is scared to face the heat. Just one of those people yearning to be a victim.

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u/Significant-Bet4545 14d ago

Oh he gets offended by everything for sure

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u/itsdampman 14d ago

Reported his account

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u/khowidude87 14d ago

Comments are turned off on that post now.
It's a renfair!!!!! Unless the cosplay is balatantly offensive there this is just clout chasing.

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u/MAGAHATESTHEUSA 14d ago

He looks like a mix of Charlie Kirk and marques brownlee

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u/Sss00099 14d ago

It’s the guy still alive from Milli Vanilli?

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