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Seen in discworld: Neil Gaiman interviews Terry Pratchett.

drag, blackface part 2

In response to the charge by NYTRO that a drag performance by three Westchester County legislators (which i wrote about yesterday) was comparable to a "KKK blackface show," Monica Roberts reminds readers she's been writing for some time about a genuine drag blackface show centered around the character Shirley Q. Liquor.

I've seen it pointed out that satire works when the person who's doing it directs it towards people or figures with more social privilege. When one is 'satirizing' people with relatively less social privilege, one isn't being satirical, one is acting like a bully.