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They're a menace! (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by PugJesus to c/memes

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I should call her…

[–] TriflingToad 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

what

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

THEY SHOULD CALL HER

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

THEY SHOULD CALL HER WHAT?

[–] BeMoreCareful 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

[–] thejoker954 5 points 3 months ago

Damn thanks for the nostalgia hit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Shard 2 points 3 months ago

LISAN AL GAIB!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Someone got Marceline into pumkin Spice

[+] [email protected] -8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] PugJesus 12 points 3 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.

[–] PugJesus 12 points 3 months ago

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

[–] MissJinx 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[+] [email protected] -22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

So you are a proud racist?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Americans aren't a race?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] taipan 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

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

[–] tjsauce 4 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thats comparing apples to oranges.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

What? It's obviously pumpkins and watermelons. Smh