# Is pretending to be stupid in film, etc kinda like Blackface? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 5, 2023, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-pretending-to-be-stupid-in-film-etc-kinda-like-blackface/979351 "2023-02-05T20:51:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 23
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-pretending-to-be-stupid-in-film-etc-kinda-like-blackface/979351/23 "2023-02-11T16:23:02Z")
Boy, I know what you mean. > [@Have any Amway encounters to share?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-amway-encounters-to-share/403706/29): > > Oh, do I have a story. I’m sure I’ve told it before but I couldn’t find it in Search. A few years back I worked for my Dad for his business consulting firm. We were doing pretty good, and had a little communication system I’d designed in the very early Internet days we were selling his customers on. Somehow, this Amway lady - I’ll call her Jane - came around and asked him to join Amway. He had zero interest in doing so because all his siblings have lots thousands and thousands of dollars in… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-pretending-to-be-stupid-in-film-etc-kinda-like-blackface/979351)._