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Idk about the other points but the blackface in Tropic Thunder was satirizing privileged, white actors taking POC roles. He's playing a white "method actor" who gets called out by a black character for it in the film. This comment is not meant to defend RDJ as a person, just to give context to what is actually a pretty funny send up of Hollywood and the movie industry.
it’s still blackface tho, and if they wanted to point out just how ridiculous it is they still could have used a black actor (with white face paint or whatever) and avoided being racist in their satire.
he also did yellowface in another film, very much unironically.
and even if he doesn’t mean it maliciously it’s still gross.