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What a load of downvotes posts like this are getting in this community 😃
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Joe Bidet doesn't like this.

well maybe people don't like racist crap?

go figure...

don't like this

well it's just people on lemmy.ml who can't tolerate it.

Arthur Besse doesn't like this.

I am glad to be part of such a cool anti-racist bunch! 😀

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@Joe Bidet
I am happy for you then 😃
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thanks 😀

can I just ask this: do you see or not a racist undertone to this image? (i am not trying to entrap or judge your or anything, it's just curiosity)

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@Joe Bidet

No I don't see it and neither is it my intention to make anything racist out of it. I don't have any problems with people who are another race than I am - rather the opposite, I think other cultures are very interesting.

I just see it as a funny coincidence that there are 3 different races and if you rotate once to the right, it will be the same race/color together. It's just coincidence and that's what makes it funny. Not some evil intention behind it 😀 and then it's funny that someone sees it and makes a meme out of it. I'm not laughing at the color but of the coincidence, hence it is not racism.
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@Joe Bidet

I can understand your point of view, that you feel it can escalate to something worse. I'm not gonna argue with your point of view. None of us will change our opinions so it'll be wasted energy anyways 😀

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I find it always stimulating to exchange views in between actors of good faith. I am not trying to change your opinion here, rather sharing my own, and feelings and experience.

My opinion here is not that "it can escalate to something worse", but rather that it is parf of something already bad, very present and casually ingrained in many people's head, that needs careful attention to not casually reproduce...

somehow it is already "worse". ie. everybody born in a racist society, who is not born as an object of this racism is bound to be at least partly racist themselves, and/or part of that problem by being complacent and/or pretending that there is no problem at all... it should not be shameful to acknowledge that, as long as people are in good faith and open to introspection.

Also it takes anyone a while to see such things when they are very much used to it.. To look back and say "oops, yeah maybe that was a mistake" in retrospect is part of it.. I am not saying you should, it's just how it happened to me.

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If there are no races then there cannot be - by definition - racist jokes.

A lot of Social Justice Fighters actually create a non-existent problem and then fight against it. In my opinion it is not racism to show people, with red hair, black skin, large eyes, short hand, small nose or whatever. If someone looks at these people and see only racism then it may be well possible that the racism is not on the picture but in the head of the said observer.

In my opinion racism is when someone suggest bad things about a group of people (preferably minority group, according to the internet warriors). I do not see racism when there is no negative feelings involved, just by showing, pointing out or joking about any differences.

Some people became way oversensitive, and often for "some imagined others", not even for themselves. It is sad and disturbing, since it became just another opportunity to raise the stress level claiming preceived problems with others.

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discrimination doesnt start with "suggesting bad things about a group of people", it starts by creating such a group of people, and enforcing it, culturally, politically, socially and at every level (including by jokes, memes, etc.). then at some point in history when society will be tense enough and on the verge of collapse, there will always be someone to suggest that this virtual "group of people" is the cause of... you know... everything bad.

but discrimination starts way way earlier. when making "groups of people" based on things they didn't chose, and that actually shouldn't matter so much...

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> discrimination doesnt start with "suggesting bad things about a group of people", it starts by creating such a group of people,

You already said you're aware that the human mind (and in fact every mind on Earth) works by grouping and comparing, so your expectations are unrealistic.

For example you seem to be in the group of US people, also in the group of social justice warriors, also in men group, also in the group who uses alternative means for communication, also in various other groups (including the one containing persons who actually able to think and formulate good arguments). So am I a racist just because I form groups and collected you into them? I have various prejudices about these groups but I do not have hate, nor (significant 😉) superiority feeling.

You can't have no groups. We call that what you're doing "pissing against the wind", and you know the result: you will change nothing but wetting yourself.
For one I don't.

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But why do you see this post as racist? As I see it, it's just acknowledging people's skin color and pointing out a funny coincidence in regards to it.

Is your interpretation that it implies white should be with white, black with black, asian with asian?

Arthur Besse doesn't like this.

Well ...
- the image is based on noticing these people's skin color in the first place, and making a joke out of them;
- the analogy with the Rubik's Cube means that there is something to "solve" there;
- the last click in the Rubik's Cube is a "perfect" state.

So this image, due to people's skin color, is one step away from a perfect state, where white people are with white people, black people with black people, etc... and should be "solved"?

How can this be read otherwise? (honest question)
Mostly because it's a meme, a.k.a. dumb humor. Memes generally don't require intricate thought. And they are frequently on the level of "haha, funny coincidence".

Like, yeah, some people will read it the way that you did, but it's not like anyone will get convinced of skin color segregation from this meme. And while I don't exactly find the thought pleasant of some greasy racist feeling reassured by this shitty meme, it doesn't take the "haha, funny coincidence" away from me.
@JoeBidet the meme would still be a little funny if you looked just at the color of the clothes. But if you do want to say the meme needs the skin colors as well to be funny, it would be racial, since it doesn't make any races feel superior or inferior, but the joke does include different races.

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