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[DoomRulz]

http://uproxx.com/webculture/2014/10/a-cosplayer-is-being-called-racist-for-her-blackface-michonne-from-the-walking-dead-costume/

Cosplay enthusiast Kira Markeljc is facing the wrath of the Internet, truly the loudest of wraths, for going "blackface" in order to look like Michonne from The Walking Dead. The online ruckus began when, according to BuzzFeed, "Tumblr user narulein...posted her friend's makeup test on Tumblr last weekend." The German artist, who goes by Purple Candy Cosplay on Facebook, has been working on the get-up for awhile, and when the test picture went viral, she deleted it and posted this message.

Butthurt people are butthurt.

[Cal427eb]

hahahahahahahaha

[Vickers]

Was she making fun of black people or was she doing anything that could be deemed racist? If not, people are overreacting.

[Cal427eb]

Obviously she wasn't doing anything wrong. Just more Tumblr bullshit.

[tavianini19]

Was she making fun of black people or was she doing anything that could be deemed racist? If not, people are overreacting.

That's what people DO.

[DoomRulz]

Was she making fun of black people or was she doing anything that could be deemed racist? If not, people are overreacting.

According to the article, no. She was just wearing skin paint.

[ShadowPred]

Origins of blackface are pretty clear, just cus you ignorant don't mean you get a free pass.

[BANE]

Oh grow up Shadow.

[DoomRulz]

Origins of blackface are pretty clear, just cus you ignorant don't mean you get a free pass.

Back in the day, it was considered racist. The only reason people still see it that way is because they insist on clinging to that outdated idea.

[tavianini19]

Yeah. I'm in blackface for work, and nobody thinks it's racist.

[DoomRulz]

Wait, what?

[ShadowPred]

Zlol

[tavianini19]

I work at a haunted theme park right now, so they black out my super white boy face so I blend in better for jump scares.

[ShadowPred]

I work at a haunted theme park right now, so they black out my super white boy face so I blend in better for jump scares.

Oh god, that video you posted earlier last week makes sense now.

[tavianini19]

Which one? Where my face was weirder looking than normal?