Re: Is this racist or creative license? (Woody Allen debate)
If his creative vision was all white, and he included other races just because it's PC, would that make him a racist?
(I confess to liking his earlier stuff. Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask, with Gene Wilder and the sheep, and the giant boob, appealed to my adolescent sense of humor. Also, Sleeper, as I recall, was a hoot. He got pretentious and boring later...)
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I'm an artist. I grew up in Detroit. However, I have never depicted a black person, and, even when I draw on history for inspiration, I draw on Western European history.
If I drew on African art for inspiration, I'd be accused of "cultural appropriation," whatever that is.
If I were creating comedy, and I used the exaggeration necessary in creating comedy to depict the black folks I know from life and work as comic figures, I'd certainly be accused of racism.
When someone decides to "play the race card" on you, there is absolutely NO WAY to win. Yer damned if ya do, and damned if ya don't.
If his creative vision was all white, and he included other races just because it's PC, would that make him a racist?
(I confess to liking his earlier stuff. Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask, with Gene Wilder and the sheep, and the giant boob, appealed to my adolescent sense of humor. Also, Sleeper, as I recall, was a hoot. He got pretentious and boring later...)
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I'm an artist. I grew up in Detroit. However, I have never depicted a black person, and, even when I draw on history for inspiration, I draw on Western European history.
If I drew on African art for inspiration, I'd be accused of "cultural appropriation," whatever that is.
If I were creating comedy, and I used the exaggeration necessary in creating comedy to depict the black folks I know from life and work as comic figures, I'd certainly be accused of racism.
When someone decides to "play the race card" on you, there is absolutely NO WAY to win. Yer damned if ya do, and damned if ya don't.
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