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They're a menace! (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 21 points 4 months ago
[-] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago
[-] machinaeZER0@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago
[-] SayJess 2 points 4 months ago

THEY SHOULD CALL HER WHAT?

[-] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 21 points 4 months ago
[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 57 points 4 months ago

If all racism was as harmless as "white girls like pumpkin spice" the world would be a utopia.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Like, I'm fairly sensitive to anti-white prejudice. Not because white people are some oppressed minority, but because it absolutely gets tiring having to justify your own existence for being born. But this? Man, this is the equivalent of "Americans like hamburgers" or "German humor is no laughing matter". It's okay to embrace a little absurdity, as long as it's not taken seriously by you or by your society.

[-] 10_0@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

This meme is more stereotyping white american girls.

[-] original2@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

from a place of mocking criticism rather than deep societal disdain

[-] MissJinx@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

are you american? coz this is a comment only americans would make

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

So you are a proud racist?

[-] ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol 5 points 4 months ago
[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

Americans technically are a race (native american) but that's not what I am talking about.

Your comment sounds like you are saying racism good

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 4 points 4 months ago

At risk of dipping my toes into an internet argument

Americans aren't a race?

Your comment sounds like you are saying racism good

This is a bad faith argument. The question of whether the USA constitutes it's own race,

has no bearing on the morality of racist beliefs

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

As someone who is partly white, I have pumpkin spice privileges.

[-] carotte 10 points 4 months ago

if you think that’s bad, wait till you find out about police brutality, chattel slavery and genocide!

[-] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

People don’t think racism sucks. Too sad!

[-] carotte 2 points 4 months ago

anti-white racism can’t suck, because it doesn’t exist 🤷‍♀️

[-] june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 months ago

Good thing this isn't about a marginalized race and isn't a negative stereotype, so it is hardly racist.

[-] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 months ago

Yeah, imagine if it was watermelons and the sign mentioned black people instead. Harmless, but no one would write that.

[-] taipan@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The historical context is not the same. The watermelon stereotype is an anti-black racist trope from the 1800s that arose from resentment against newly emancipated former slaves. It accused black people of being "happy to do nothing but eat watermelon". In comparison, the stereotype of white girls enjoying pumpkin spice doesn't have the same negative connotation.

[-] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 13 points 4 months ago

TIL. I concur that makes my comparison not so fair. Making stereotypes based on any skin color is still icky though.

[-] tjsauce@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

It's even crueler when you remember that newly freed slaves grew the watermelon themselves because they couldn't afford much. Pumpkin spice is a choice of novelty, not survival.

[-] Catoblepas 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Do you actually think the watermelon racist trope is because black people just happened to like watermelon a lot? Because if you do you need to go read up on it, and if you don’t then you need to stop trivializing the history of racist oppression by equating it with a joke about a snack purchase.

[-] thejoker954@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Thats comparing apples to oranges.

[-] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 months ago

What? It's obviously pumpkins and watermelons. Smh

[-] 10_0@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

Was about to comment that but you beat me to it, stereotypes are just so toxic on the internet and ppl don't see the double standard.

[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago
[-] thejoker954@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Damn thanks for the nostalgia hit.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

The spice must flow, in a cursed sort of way it protect the Halloween from Christmas.

[-] Shard@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

LISAN AL GAIB!

LISAN AL GAIB!

LISAN AL GAIB!

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago

Someone got Marceline into pumkin Spice

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