Post by @Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world

2026-10-18 02:28 UTC

I mean if you’re looking for it, you’re gonna convince yourself you’ve found it. I’m 32 and at no point when looking at this meme did I think, damn this is promoting the idea that black people are cannibals. I think you might just be more jadded than you’d like to admit.

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@Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-18 04:41

This is how dog-whistles work. They reinforce racist ideas, but with a veneer of humor. If someone calls it out, you can say, “You’re the racist!” “Black people are primitive” is the Big Lie that “justified” slavery and the thousand wrongs that continue today, like substandard medical care. Let me just remind you about all the racist shit that was being said about Obama when he was President, and all the way to about 8 months ago Trump posting a video of himself as the Lion King with animations of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. This meme doesn’t just equate Black people with cannibals, it targets the one Black person so uppity as to become President. (And a damn sight better President than Trump or Bush.) If this meme is colorblind this guy would work as well. …com.pk/…/871828-sarim-akhtar-aka-disappointed-fa… Or there’s several others, even the how about no girl could stretch to it. And it would be funnier if it didn’t include the racism. But no. Using Obama was a deliberate choice.

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