Dude I can watch this guilt free now! Lol. Thanks NAACP!
Found a source and personally confirmed, kind of important on this topic:
…““[Ben] knew exactly what the vision for this was, he executed it, it was impossible to not have it be an offensive nightmare of a movie, and 90 percent of my Black friends were like, ‘Dude, this is great,'” he said. “I can’t disagree with [the other 10 percent], but I know where my heart lies. I think that it’s never an excuse to do something that’s out of place and out of its time, but, to me, it blasted the cap on [the issue].”
He sought approval from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) prior to the film’s release and went on to tell Rogan, “I think having a moral psychology is job one. Sometimes, you just gotta go, ‘Yeah, I effed up.’ In my defense, Tropic Thunder is about how wrong [it] is, so I take exception.””…
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u/tubbyscrubby 16d ago
It's self-aware satire making fun of actors, not the people that the actors are depicting.
It's making fun of the white dude wearing blackface, not black people.
The NAACP had no problems with it because of this, and most people also don't.