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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (87126)11/18/2004 11:47:54 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793688
 
Exaggerating those features that match racial stereotypes, especially on a face where they are not especially prominent (Condi Rice does not have noticeably big lipped features), carries clear racist overtones.


When you do a caricature, you pick the person's most prominent features. They don't have to be outlandish features. Some people don't have outlandish features. You use what you have. What pops out at me when I see her face is the red lipstick. I would have used her mouth, her teeth, and the spikes in her flipped hair.

So you, the artist, go to draw the caricature and you begin to think to yourself that you can't use the lips because she's black. You would be racist to draw her with exaggerated lips.

Or would you be more racist to self-consciously take a pass on the most obvious feature even though you have nothing else to work with?

Same thing, as I mentioned earlier, applies to Semitic people.

Seems to me that we as a society should either declare caricature tabu or we should do them the same for everyone.
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