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I went to go see Cloud Atlas last weekend and I loved it. However, a friend of mine criticized me for it because of the yellowfacing in one of the time eras: the act of using white actors to portray asian character. I told her that it wasn't racist in this case, that I thought it did well for the consistency of the story to keep the audience on track. It was a little confusing to begin with, and I felt that the yellowfacing was simply a means to help people stay engaged with the movie without being too confused.

Her response was: "Girl, yellowface is always racist- always. There's really no middle ground here. Any "-face" with the exception of whiteface is racist, point blank."

Why is whitefacing not racist? Is it because it's toward white people? I feel like that's the case in a lot of things, like when certain racial slurs are used. People of that ethnicity, hell, as long as you aren't white, can use those racial slurs. The moment a white person says it, it's racist.

Is that what's going on here? What do you think Reddit? Is it racist? Is it racist for all cases except whitefacing, or should whitefacing be included in being called racist?
<bot>: Is yellowfacing and/or all Hollywood acts of -facing racist? Is whitefacing the exclusion? Why or why not?