It’s like hot pot.
Cannibal: A gun? Aw I wanted some human arms.
Brain: But guns can get you many arms.
Cannibal: Explain how.
Brain: Gunfire can be exchanged with victims for corpses.
To ensure freshness, it’s better to keep the victims alive for as long as possible and only harvest the arms when needed.
Boy, I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve harvested both arms only to get full after eating one!! Haha, silly me.
And it could have costed them an arm and a leg, too.
Depends on just how good a shot the prospective dinner guest is when returning fire.
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The joke is funny. Obama’s picture is funny. Together they’re a little problematic, suggesting old racist stereotypes.
Whoa, that’s oldschool. I think the last time black people were mocked for being savage cannibals on a mass basis was like the 1950s. The Looney Tunes cartoons about the crude African stereotype with a bone in his hair come to mind.
It always bothered me because cannibalism was more of a Papua New Guinea/Pacific islander thing.
Yeah it was always incorrect as well as wrong. For modern cannibalism we should look into the Epstein Files.
I think you actually have to be exceptionally racist if that is where your head goes.
I think I’m just old enough to recognize what I saw in the past
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.
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. https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/871828-sarim-akhtar-aka-disappointed-fan-gets-spot-in-hong-kongs-meme-museum
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.
I’ve never heard that sort of racism, that black people are cannibals, so i think that’s pretty outdated racism even by racist standards.
I had a friend’s kid try that crap on me recently, though. Made a racist joke off the back of my offhand and entirely innocent comment about monkeys, and I called his ass out for being a racist piece of shit about it. His parents were unbelieveably thankful that I did because the kid actually likes me, so maybe it helped. But thats so much to ask a sometimes-over friend to do on like a regular basis. If i have to call him out every time he sees me, he won’t like and respect me anymore, so won’t matter if I do call him out.
But really, what’s the problem? We call them as we see them, but we should never allow them to take our language from us. They dont deserve nearly that much respect or control. Obvious dog whistles, fine, we can avoid those like above monkey stuff depending how it’s presented. But we should never ever give ground without them winning it, and they aint done shit in decades worth claiming our language.
All racism is outdated. There isn’t a newer, hipper racism that’s finally caught up with modern times. It’s all the same old ignorant, insecure shit.
They weren’t suggesting that modern manifestations of racism are “hipper” than old ones, but it’s just a fact that certain words and tropes are simply not used anymore and don’t immediately spring to mind. Like this weird “black people are cannibals” thing.
You’re beyond jadded trying extra hard to be bothered by something innocuous. If they used that guy you could make the argument that Pakistan doesn’t have explicit cannibalism laws so its perpetuating the idea that Pakistanis are cannibals. Or that the meme is framing middle eastern people/muslims as violent because they are seeking out an arms dealer. Literally anything can be a dog whistle if you do enough mental gymnastics to make it one.
Woke 1 was craaaazy
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