When political correctness goes in overdrive you get this… the victim: belgian electropop act Bazart
Drama in Belgium’s Twitterland as pictures of a dressed up Daan Schepers and Simon Nuytten from the electropop act Bazart turned up on social media and caused some drama.
All started with a tweet from an anonymous tweep – especially known for her trout pictweets – called Héloïse. She decided to call out Schepers for ‘blackfacing’ during a Halloween party. Blackfacing literally means performing in blackface makeup, but it has since been recuperated by extreme leftwing activist to turn whatever they don’t like into ‘it’s-a-racism-thing’ even when nothing bad is intended to start with.
Schepers and his girlfriend Paulien Riemis turned up at a Halloween party dressed up as Kayne West and Kim Kardashian (including a cushion of course) as you can see below. Nuytten (in t-shirt saying Bazalt with an L instead of an R) and his girlfriend Olga Leyers showed up dressed as Chinese (Yellowfacing according to critics). In a panic reaction both members deleted the pictures, but once on the social media, it of course stays alive as you can see below.
Even the press jumped on it calling it racist because of click beat reasons of course… Judge for yourself. Political correctness going in overdrive is what we make of it.
Other fans see through the commotion and wonder what the problem is with the Halloween pics.
Ik snap de rel niet zenne. Halloween kanye kan je nu eenmaal niet blank doen. Nothing racist about it. Grow up people. #bazart
— deanXphotography (@deanXphoto) 30 oktober 2017
First of all, dit heeft niks temaken met Bazart. Daarnaast, sinds wanneer moeten halloween kostuums ineens accuraat zijn?
— Eef ? (@evi_adriaenssen) 28 oktober 2017
Segh euh, die ‘controverse’ rond @bazart_band en onze vriend Kanye & the Asians… dat was toch een vroege aprilgrap, niet? #2muchPC #chill
— Dave Peters (@DeefPeters) 30 oktober 2017
En dan direct kwaad worden op die van Bazart, terwijl die zich wrs van geen kwaad bewust was.. Maar "drama" komop zeg, die mogen dat
— Amber ? (@ammberboth) 30 oktober 2017
Mag er nog wel iets?
"Bazart slaat bal helemaal mis met 'racistische' Halloweenkostuums"
Is dit zo? Wat mag dan wel?https://t.co/4BTgdTYI8C— Chris10VdB (@chris10vdb) 30 oktober 2017
De twitterfight over Bazart loopt echt uit de hand, hebben mensen echt niets beters te doen ofzo ?
— PIEN (@pienmalfliet) 30 oktober 2017
Note that especially in Belgium and the Netherlands we have a lot less the habit in calling whatever racist – especially this – because we have the good old Saint-Nicolas tradition including every kid’s best friend, the blackfaced Nicodemus.
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