Zwarte Piet has got to be a top five recurring stupid argument, I still can't believe GAF is still dragging it out to argue over every three months. And you can tell certain posters get their shit ready to throw down in advance.
Blackface has connotations in
American culture that it doesn't elsewhere, but Americans are generally tone-deaf to other cultures. (As they should be, since other cultures are inferior garbage.) Zwarte Piet has connotations in
Dutch culture that it doesn't elsewhere and so they don't understand why Americans are trying to hold it to non-Dutch standards.
Nobody's going to bridge this disconnect on fucking GAF so it just becomes "Yeah, but America tho, you racist." "Yeah, but not America tho, you're the real racist."
I mean, you take a position that all blackface is racist or not all blackface is racist, you're going to never break the argument of the other because neither one is based on anything universal.
Besides, Ted Dan Son saved blackface 23 years ago, it's allowed for white people again:
