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Facebook Hate Speech Policy Now Bans This Racist Christmas Tradition

Anti-racist groups in both the Netherlands and Belgium have long criticized 'Black Pete' as a racist and dehumanizing caricature.

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In a Tuesday blog post, Facebook VP of Integrity Guy Rosen announced that the platform would be updating its hate speech policy and would be banning all images and videos of blackface, including the traditional Dutch blackface Christmas character “Zwarte Piet.”

Portrayed as a sidekick to Sinterklaas (the Benelux version of Santa Claus), Zwarte Piet—literally "Black Pete" in English—is traditionally played by adult white men who wear full blackface, earrings, curly-haired wigs, and exaggerated red lipstick.

The update comes in the context of a larger move by the platform to more actively combat racist and anti-semitic tropes.

Black Pete is no stranger to controversy, and every holiday season the annual return of Sinterklaas is met with mass protests both supporting and opposing the character. While supporters of the Black Pete describe him as a harmless tradition, anti-racist groups in both the Netherlands and Belgium have long criticized Black Pete as a racist and dehumanizing caricature which is reflective of the two nations’ violent colonial legacy.


The tradition has received international condemnation as well. In a 2015 report released by the United Nations, experts called on the Dutch government to eliminate the stereotype. Kim Kardashian described the tradition as “disgusting” and rapper Waka Flocka vowed to avoid the Netherlands unless the tradition was discontinued.

Facebook’s decision has already drawn criticism from some who see it as censorship, and it is sure to reignite what is already a heated—and at times violent—debate surrounding the tradition. Within hours of the decision the far right “Pro Zwarte Piet” Facebook page created an event where members plan to spam post all their pictures of the character and called on them to boycott the platform. According to NOS, the Dutch national broadcaster, in order for pictures of Black Pete to be removed, users must actively report them.

Anti-racist activists see the decision as a small victory, with the popular “Zwarte Piet is Racisme” page heralding the decision as “a happy day for the Netherlands.” But some activists have also questioned why a private corporation has taken the lead instead of the national government. While Prime Minister Mark Rutte—who himself has dressed up as the character—recently described the tradition as racist, he refused to go so far as to say that the tradition would be outright banned.
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It shouldn't have to be said, but no Zwarte Piet isn't racist or hateful. The attempted suppression of culture like this is sickening and too transparent to the real goals of these people.
Good video on the topic from a Flemish person:

 

[NerdShamer]

Alrighty, Black Pete is supposed to be an Moor, which is a Muslim from Morocco.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Y'know, the Puritans banned Christmas because they considered it "degenerate" and "problematic" and they even lynched people they suspected of celebrating Christmas.

Yet another thing that the Woke Left and the Traditionalist Right have in common.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Pretty bad when Ebeneezer Scrooge seems to have more holiday cheer than the average leftist.

 

[some Sketchy dude]

From the 'and at times violent' linked article:
"We were humiliated, scolded, and threatened," said Jerry Afriyie, a leading figure in KOZP, to the Parool. "Children rose up with raised middle fingers and sang racist chants, while the people around them clapped along," he continued.

Even the children hate you Grinches. KOZP is an 'activist' group called Kick Out Zwarte Piet

 

[The Pink Panther]

I've never even heard of this, lmao.

Who cares.

Edit: What I meant by who cares, I meant in the perspective of who cares enough to ban this shit.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

From the 'and at times violent' linked article:
"We were humiliated, scolded, and threatened," said Jerry Afriyie, a leading figure in KOZP, to the Parool. "Children rose up with raised middle fingers and sang racist chants, while the people around them clapped along," he continued.

And then suddenly a 3 year old trans girl of color came up to the crowd and admonished them that baby Jesus would've accepted BIPOC refugees and everyone clapped. And the girl's name? Alberta Einstein

 

[Ira the Weatherman]

From the 'and at times violent' linked article:
"We were humiliated, scolded, and threatened," said Jerry Afriyie, a leading figure in KOZP, to the Parool. "Children rose up with raised middle fingers and sang racist chants, while the people around them clapped along," he continued.

This never happened, ever.

You know why? Because kids love Black Pete and don't regard him as a racist charicature, because he isn't. He's a fairy tale persona that happens to be black. They'd never think about it in that way, because they're fucking kids. Only adults with axes to grind do

Reminder that Jerry Airfryer is Ghanaian and is more likely to have slaveholders as ancestors than 99.9% of Dutchmen. All these self-appointed representatives of Dutch blacks are privileged fuckers who haven't done a honest days work in their lives. Meanwhile, this is how people in the Dutch Carribbean (which is 90% black) celebrate this holiday:

 

[Troutsmacked]

"Children rose up with raised middle fingers and sang racist chants, while the people around them clapped along,"

Uh hello, Based Department?

Seriously though, fuck anyone, especially Silicon Valley shitheads, who have the nerve to tell people in nations on the other side of the planet they need to do away with their cultural celebratory traditions because they're current year problematic in Wokemerica.

 

[Cilleystring]

This just makes me wanna start a new tradition of celebrating christmas in blackface

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

Y'know, the Puritans banned Christmas because they considered it "degenerate" and "problematic" and they even lynched people they suspected of celebrating Christmas.

Yet another thing that the Woke Left and the Traditionalist Right have in common.

and yet they try to claim to have ascended above america's puritanical roots.

Uh hello, Based Department?

Seriously though, fuck anyone, especially Silicon Valley shitheads, who have the nerve to tell people in nations on the other side of the planet they need to do away with their cultural celebratory traditions because they're current year problematic in Wokemerica.

"lul it don't matter cus they be white so they should hate themselves as much as I do"

 

[JULAY]

I've been to both Belgium and the Netherlands more than once. Those faggots speaking my language and refusing to practice Dutch and Walloon with me because I'm not good at either of those languages is racist and deeply offensive... it makes me feel unsafe. With whom do I register my displeasure that my language is being co-opted by non-natives? MY LANGUAGE IS NOT YOUR LINGUA FRANCA!

 

[WinchesterPremium]

This never happened, ever.

You know why? Because kids love Black Pete and don't regard him as a racist charicature, because he isn't. He's a fairy tale persona that happens to be black. They'd never think about it in that way, because they're fucking kids. Only adults with axes to grind do

Reminder that Jerry Airfryer is Ghanaian and is more likely to have slaveholders as ancestors than 99.9% of Dutchmen. All these self-appointed representatives of Dutch blacks are privileged fuckers who haven't done a honest days work in their lives. Meanwhile, this is how people in the Dutch Carribbean (which is 90% black) celebrate this holiday:

He wasn't dressing up as Black Pete, he was trying to get rid of him. I can totally believe teenagers giving the middle finger to someone trying to get rid of a Santa equivalent. The video in that article shows a bunch of soccer hooligans shouting what google translate tells me are naughty foreign words. Mostly variations of "whore" with some black stuff in it that might be racist, though its all old dudes and not little children.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Why not just ban Christmas entirely since the only reason it's celebrated is because White Supremacist imperialist colonialism made BIPOCs celebrate it and is full of hateful traditional symbols like racist songs like "White Christmas" and Baby Jesus which is uninclusive and offensive to Muslims and Jews and atheists?

Oh wait, that might get in the way of consooming product for Christmas.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I've never even heard of this, lmao.

Who cares.

Edit: What I meant by who cares, I meant in the perspective of who cares enough to ban this shit.

They want to ban this, but still have yet to explain why Juneteenth is a “national” holiday.
Or why Kwanzaa shouldn’t be called a fake holiday.

 

[some Sketchy dude]

The pitch:

The response:

I fucking love it

 

[MrJokerRager]

Boomerbook should die off and Europeans better off on VK rather than Facebook at this rate. Or create their own Boomerbook since America's dirty laundry is fucking with cultures of other countries.

 

[frozenrunner]

I knew it was Black Pete before I clicked

You almost have to admire how brazenly leftists lie and contradict themselves. On the one hand, they hate "Western imperialism" because it dominates and destroys other cultures. On the other hand, the Dutch can't have Black Pete because it looks racist and offensive to American blacks.

 

[Terrorist]

You wanna talk racist holidays? Look into Purim, Guy Rosen's people's celebration of 75,000 gentile deaths. I think Guy should continue his crusade and #BanPurim...after all, a major part of anti-racist work is examining your own biases.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

This never happened, ever.

You know why? Because kids love Black Pete and don't regard him as a racist charicature, because he isn't. He's a fairy tale persona that happens to be black. They'd never think about it in that way, because they're fucking kids. Only adults with axes to grind do

Reminder that Jerry Airfryer is Ghanaian and is more likely to have slaveholders as ancestors than 99.9% of Dutchmen. All these self-appointed representatives of Dutch blacks are privileged fuckers who haven't done a honest days work in their lives. Meanwhile, this is how people in the Dutch Carribbean (which is 90% black) celebrate this holiday:

Black dude in blackface brushing his teeth and a KFC banner...this is where I'm spending Xmas this year