The use of a tasteless
caricature of a group of people that isn't quite as racist as
blackface, but is still pretty racist,
classist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, etc.
To help raise money for the homeless
Melinda and Bill Gates spent the night sleeping in a cardboard box on the streets of downtown Seattle. Some passersby viewed this as an exercise in empathy, while others
condemned it as a blackface adjacent
publicity stunt.