Exactly.
So if you want to mock her uselessness in fancy dress, you have to black up or no one will have any idea who you are.

I know I sound like one of those 'lefties' or a member of the pc brigade over this and the truth is I am probably centre left over stuff like this, but it comes from a genuine place.
When I was 7 we beat Liverpool in the FA cup semi final, Ian Wright was my hero at the time so that was probably the best day of my life! As you can imagine I couldnt wait to go to school and talk about it!
When I did, I was told by a teacher that the win didnt count because a 'n@##er' scored and Liverpool technically won. That day I went home and asked my parents if it was true. It didnt sound true but if an adult said it it was probably true, luckilly my parents corrected me on it but for a whole day, I was heartbroken because a black person stopped Crystal Palace from winning properly.
What we do and say has a massive influence on people, its important that we dont normalise stuff like blacking up again. I dont believe for a second that the person doing it had racist intent and I dont believe anyone in this group is racist, but just because it was ok to say and do before, doesnt mean we should let it continue...

So basically you believe in 'protected classes' based upon someone's skin colour.

I recognise the intent means well but I completely disagree with it. A sub set of a group of people being offended is life.....There are certain people on this site who talk ill of unionists, which is half my family...I tell them what I think, I don't agree that they shouldn't be allowed to express their view.

Debate and criticise but no compulsion against non violent ideas.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

As a fancy dress idea, it was actually a funny one. It's mocking a prominent politician's apparent inability to count, suggesting she'd be celebrating a 190 score. The question is, how do you, as a white bloke, dress up as Diane Abbott? I certainly wouldn't have done it for fear of this kind of reaction, but it's actually quite a funny idea (forget the blackface, just the idea of Diane Abbott shouting "one hundred and ninety"). If only one of their number were black and could've donned the outfit, it would be a funny gag.

I'm also a bit conflicted about Morris Dancers - some of them traditionally black up, and have done for centuries (nothing to do with pretending to be black people at all as far as I understand) but they are now being forced to stop doing it, so a centuries old tradition, which has no harm to anyone at it's core will inevitably die out so as to not offend people who don't understand what it means and can't be bothered to find out.

There's a town near me called Blackboys - I'm expecting that to be targetted at some point (named after a local pub dating back to the 1300s, where workers transporting charcoal would stop en route, obviously they'd all be black from their cargo)

Edited by npn (19 Dec 2017 12.50pm)

Could well be right bud, but when people talk about the days when this country was openly racist, everyone has always said 'well at least its not like the past when you could get away with blacking up!' This is literally what we as a society wanted to avoid going back to!!!
As ive said several times though, I dont believe it was racist, I believe it was a stupid thing to do. I also believe we have the right to call him stupid for doing so. Im not one of these 'safe space' lefties. Im just someone who is annoyed that in 2017, is even in an conversation where there is a 'pro-blackface' camp!
Even if you think you have the right to do it, even if there is no bad intent at all, even if you think it will 'piss off the left' or you have a black friend who thinks its fine...its 2017, can we just agree not to black up anymore?

Out of interest, did you find the movie "White Chicks" equally offensive? And if not, why not?