• @Shard
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      LISAN AL GAIB!

      LISAN AL GAIB!

      LISAN AL GAIB!

    • @[email protected]
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      If all racism was as harmless as “white girls like pumpkin spice” the world would be a utopia.

      • @PugJesusOP
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        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.

        • @original2
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          from a place of mocking criticism rather than deep societal disdain

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

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

          • Possibly linux
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            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

            • @[email protected]
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              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

            • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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              Americans technically are a race (native american)

              Native Americans aren’t a homogeneous people, they’re comprised of over 600 unique nations.

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

    • Juniper (she/her) 🫐
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      Good thing this isn’t about a marginalized race and isn’t a negative stereotype, so it is hardly racist.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah, imagine if it was watermelons and the sign mentioned black people instead. Harmless, but no one would write that.

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

        • @tjsauce
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          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]
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        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.