Topic: Official Minichan Zwarte Piet costume contest!

Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU started this discussion 10 years ago #48,742

To celebrate the holidays, and to get a better understanding of dutch culture, minichan will be hosting a Zwarte Piet costume contest. For those of you who don't know what it is, here is an article about it! I have attached a picture of an example of what it looks like. The winner of this contest will receive Minichan Gold™. What are the benefits of that, you might ask? Well, if you come in first place, you may just find out!

Rules:
1. It must be a picture taken of you holding or otherwise displaying a sign that says minichan.org with today's date.
2. If you want to have friends join in as Sinterklaas, or other seasonally appropriate character (Hannukah Harry, Kwanza Karl et al.) that will count as bonus points towards your submission.
3. Anyone who is not conducive to this festive activity risks being permabanned!

^{By submitting your photo, you foreit any copyright claim you may have to it, and authorize minichan.org and any of its subsidiaries to use these pictures for any purposes they see fit, including but not limited to marketing purposes, promotional materials, and custom toilet paper.}

(Edited 7 minutes later.)

Adam Jensen joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 8 minutes later[^] [v] #635,745

> 20 days too late

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Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU (OP) replied with this 10 years ago, 6 minutes later, 15 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #635,748

@previous (Adam Jensen)
This is more about the holiday spirit than about adhering to one particular holiday! Hannukah was also over a week ago but we accommodate that.

(Edited 22 seconds later.)

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 4 hours later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #635,793

not funny

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 1 hour later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #635,813

MAMMY!

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 1 hour later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #635,831

@635,748 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
So I can pose in costume sippin' muh grape drank?

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 17 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #636,027

@635,793 (C)
This

|βʒ| Meowth joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 18 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #636,140

@635,793 (C)

> not funny

Although I could totally see postmortem behind the makeup in @OP pic.

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #636,156

@previous (|βʒ| Meowth)
damlol

r04r joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 7 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,215

I think it's pretty funny

Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 6 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,219

Yeah, I think it's funny too.

Anonymous K joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 6 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,258

@OP
Has anybody here performed this challenge for you yet?

Anonymous L joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 18 hours later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,373

kankerracistisch oetz

Anonymous M joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 2 hours later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,418

@636,215 (r04r)
Why do you say a blackface competition is funny?

r04r replied with this 10 years ago, 2 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,419

@previous (M)
It's not blackface, it's Zwarte Piet which is not racist like your American/British blackface. Please stop forcing your American/British views upon Dutch traditions.

(Edited 11 seconds later.)

Anonymous L replied with this 10 years ago, 6 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,424

DIT IS KANKERRACISTISCH VERWIJDE DIT KANKERHOMO'S

Anonymous M replied with this 10 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,426

@previous (L)
> <r04r> hello niggers [23:32]

Anonymous N joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 36 seconds later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,427

Sinterklaas is already long time over? What kind of dweebs do you have to be to dress like Piet just to prove muh point for muh special club?

Anonymous L replied with this 10 years ago, 25 seconds later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,428

HALLO WIE /NVU/ HIER???
KANKERVLUCHTELINGEN ERUIT!!!

Anonymous L double-posted this 10 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,429

NVU NVU NVU NVU NVU NVU NVU NVU NVU NVU

Anonymous M replied with this 10 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,430

@636,428 (L)
Vile thread

Anonymous L replied with this 10 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,432

(Citing a deleted or non-existent reply.).430

Anonymous L double-posted this 10 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,433

Anonymous L triple-posted this 10 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,435

Anonymous L quadruple-posted this 10 years ago, 35 seconds later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,436

Anonymous L quintuple-posted this 10 years ago, 42 seconds later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,437

Anonymous L sextuple-posted this 10 years ago, 25 seconds later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,438

Anonymous N replied with this 10 years ago, 2 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,440

Wow, kijk al deze zeldzame pepieten

Anonymous F replied with this 10 years ago, 22 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,445

@previous (N)
I get it, chans need to be racist.

RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 10 years ago, 38 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,451

@@previous (F)
damlol

Anonymous O joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 1 hour later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,472

@636,419 (r04r)
your racist traditions don't get a free pass sorry

r04r replied with this 10 years ago, 2 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,474

@previous (O)
What is racist about it?

Anonymous P joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 7 hours later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,531

@previous (r04r)
it's a black character that's traditionally caricaturized in an obviously nasty servile and unrealistic way and the role inherently exclusive of actual black people how is that defensible

Anonymous Q joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 28 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,541

@636,474 (r04r)
It's just as racist as apartheid, which is not racist at all.

r04r replied with this 10 years ago, 4 hours later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,650

@636,531 (P)
That is not even close to reality. Please, study up on the tradition of Sinterklaas before you make any judgement. Zwarte Piet is a highly respected member of a cherished holiday tradition, and it is not racist in any way. Again, please stop forcing your British/American views on Dutch traditions. It is really unbecoming. Next you'll tell me it's racist to celebrate anyone other than the Greendale Human Being just because the character's skin happens to have a specific collor.

@previous (Q)
See the above. I realize that it's incredibly difficult for you racists to turn off the racism goggles you're viewing the world with, but I assure you there is no racism to be found here.

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RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 10 years ago, 3 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,652

@previous (r04r)
So, after Alphabeting this tradition, it's just people dressing up as a character from Dutch folklore, correct?

r04r replied with this 10 years ago, 3 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,654

@previous (RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx)
Pretty much. Once a year there's an event similar to Christmas where Sinterklaas comes from Spain in his boat, bringing gifts and presents for the children. Where Santa Claus has elves as his helper Sinterklaas has Zwarte Pieten as his helpers. The Zwarte Pieten do the actual distributing of gifts and handing out of candy, thus every child is brought up to love them and become ecstatic when they arrive due to the handing out of delicious candy.

RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 10 years ago, 5 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,656

@previous (r04r)
Ah, okay.

So yeah, I think it's pretty harmless, then. Understandably, it looks a lot like blackface to certain foreign observers, and that can be scary/offensive. But it's not really the same as blackface in intention or meaning. So I don't think it really promotes racial hatred or anything

The English Wikipedia article did claim it has become controversial in your country, though. Any truth to that?

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r04r replied with this 10 years ago, 7 minutes later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,672

@previous (RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx)
Yes, it became controversial due to foreign influences. Lots of immigrants and other foreigners respond to it like the posters in this topic, due to them not understanding the history of the event. They just see the Zwarte Pieten and go "OH NO ITS BLACKFACE THIS IS HORRIBLY RACIST OMG OMG OMG". Luckily almost everyone seems to ignore them, though. Other than it being brought up again every year. Some event hosts/TV shows have started doing "Rainbow Petes" where they make up the no-longer-Black Petes to be random colors of the rainbow. But that just looks really weird, and I think most places still use the traditional Black Pete.

I genuinely don't think there's anything racist about Black Pete. The character is not depicted in any kind of subservient way, and as a child I had nothing but positive associations with it. I was just really excited to be getting presents and candy each year, so what if some of the people handing that out happen to be depicted as black.

Anonymous F replied with this 10 years ago, 2 hours later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,715

This looks like an excuse to do blackface. You only have to be on irc for 5 minutes to hear a racist comment and that is enough to suggest this isn't about Dutch tradition.

Anonymous H replied with this 10 years ago, 1 hour later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,763

@636,531 (P)
Clowns and mimes are racist toward whites

Anonymous R joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 2 hours later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,820

@636,715 (F)
yeah Doy
I don't give a shit about Christmas tradition and I assume roar doesn't either and she's just having fun getting peoples' goats with her 'this version of blackface isn't blackface' bs

Also fuck u mark you are a dumb shit

RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 10 years ago, 26 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,830

@previous (R)
ninjj?

Anonymous M replied with this 10 years ago, 27 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,835

> <becky> [22:17:31] pakis

Anonymous S joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 24 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,838

@636,830 (RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx)
Fuck u lettuce u dumb shit

RWBY Rhubarb? !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 10 years ago, 40 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,849

@previous (S)
If you aren't him, then you are a very good tribute. Like a sequel to ninjj that legitimately captures what the original ninjj was all about.

Anonymous H replied with this 10 years ago, 2 hours later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,867

@636,838 (S)
> arg

r04r replied with this 10 years ago, 3 hours later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #636,902

@636,820 (R)

Adam Jensen replied with this 10 years ago, 6 days later, 1 week after the original post[^] [v] #638,990

I would like it to be on record that I think this is a racist holiday. Thanks.

Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU (OP) replied with this 10 years ago, 42 minutes later, 1 week after the original post[^] [v] #638,996

@previous (Adam Jensen)
Don't let r04r know you think that!

kook !!mCVqftDha joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 week after the original post[^] [v] #639,000

@638,990 (Adam Jensen)
Who are you?