Episode of The Office also taken offline Entertainment

entertainment">In The Office it is a scene from the 2012 episode Dwight Christmas. In that episode, the character Dwight, played by Rain Wilson, painted himself dark. The clip is no longer seen on Netflix and will also be removed when the series moves to Peacock, the streaming service of the TV channel. NBC. “I regret all the pain it has caused,” says creator Greg Daniels.

entertainment">Netflix decided to take an episode of Community offline. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, in which Ken Jeong’s character is painted black and plays a ‘black elf’ is no longer visible. Earlier, the streaming service also decided to completely remove Little Britain for the same reason.

entertainment">In recent weeks, episodes of multiple series of streaming services, including Scrubs and 30 Rock, have been removed because of blackface. The blackface tradition emerged in the late 1800s, when white stage actors painted black to play caricatures of the African American population. The phenomenon is very sensitive, but since the death of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, criticism has further flared up.

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