• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        12·
        2 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.

          • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            2 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·
              2 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

    • Chloé 🥕
      10·
      2 months ago

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

      • taipan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        2 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.

        • tjsauce@lemmy.world
          5·
          2 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·
        2 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.

      • 10_0@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 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.