The trouble is in viewing/evaluating instances like these as though they exist in a historical vacuum. Taken that way, these images aren’t nec. racist in and of themselves. When you consider the wider context, the degrading ways non-white people have been depicted through history, these filters become very not OK.

Certain people are afforded the convenience of being able to judge whether something is racist or not on a case-by-case basis, as though every case were an isolated incident, independent of all others.

Then you have certain people that don’t have that luxury — who have to live with all of it.

That’s something to take into consideration. It’s the same thing Snapchat has obviously failed to.