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This was a hard poll.

I am a qualified no.

Here are my thoughts.

A classic example would be Mickey Rooney's yellowface role as Mr. Yunioshi in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._Y._Yunioshi

It might be technically possible to excise the Yunioshi scenes from the film and still have something that holds together narratively. It's been a while since I've seen the movie and I can't remember if he's got any crucial plot role.

Another is the minstrel show scene from "White Christmas" (1954).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(film)

But there's some real moral hazard to doing this.

First, it's letting ourselves have the nice parts of the film without confronting the very bad parts.

Second, the edited films would have no people of colour whatsoever. There's something dark about that; dealing with racism in media by eliminating everyone except white people.

@chrisjrn@social.coop @evan@prodromou.pub
no, it certainly is not > declaring racism of the past commonplace is just not true but a lame excuse to sell a product made by racists in the 21st century