Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : Hi, I am using a throwaway account because I am active on a few subreddits that I know I'd get huge backlash from this opinion. Some background, I have a friend that I went to school with, who is black and is extremely politically active with social justice. We became friends by happenstance because I was playing a game on my Nintendo DS and she saw it over my shoulder and we talked about the game and played it together quite a lot. 

Fast forward to high school and she changes quite a bit, she gets more outspoken on politics, and Ferguson happens and she becomes an entirely new person. Despite all of this, I tried not to take any of her posts on social media personally, figuring that she was just venting her frustrations and we were still friends so I didn't engage any posts on social justice topics. Eventually getting exposure to the subject I started to see where she was coming from and I am very sympathetic to the idea that black people are systematically disenfranchised in our society. 

A few days ago she was talking about something called digital blackface, which is when someone portrays themselves as black online, when they are not, specifically for the purposes of trolling and wasting the emotional labor of black activists. I was thinking wow, that's crazy that people do that, I didn't know that was a thing. A few hours later into our conversation she said something funny and I reacted with a reaction gif of Charlie Murphy from the Chappelle show laughing realy hard. My choice of this gif was because I was a big fan of the Chappelle show when it was on and a huge fan of Charlie Murphy in general. 

She responded to this gif by saying, "That's a perfect example of digital blackface". I was sort of gobsmacked, I wasn't trolling, I wasn't trying to portray myself as black, and I said that doesn't match up at all with the definition of blackface she gave me. So she explained that white people using black people's exaggerated reactions to things as a way to portray their feelings is wrong because black people are not here for white people's entertainment. To which I replied that Charlie Murphy is quite literally an entertainer, and is definitely IS here for everyone's entertainment. I told her I was getting ready for bed and had to go, but this is really bothering me. I feel like I was just accused of trivializing and participating in racism, and that if I never use one of these gifs (which I do heavily in conversation) I'd just be validating her opinion. What do you all think? Should I play along when I don't agree? I've seen in the past how she treats people who don't agree with her opinions of social justice, they are immediately considered racists. I'm not sure how to react here in balancing my own opinions with wanting to maintain a friendship. 
