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We kind of deserve it (startrek.website)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Stamets@startrek.website to c/funny@lemmy.world
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Edit: Meme has been slightly altered to be more accurate. Credit to @ininewcrow for the updated and better image.

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[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 110 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It should say "Whiteskins" instead

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

"Paleface" .... and show a picture of a buck toothed yokel

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)

This meme always bugged me because it's not an equivalent portrayal of what the actual real life team mascot displays (or had displayed for several decades .... but continues to display in many other leagues and communities and schools)

As an Indigenous person ... this is what Native mascot logos look like to me.

[–] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I want that tshirt so much!

I'm as white as the driven snow and English by the way.

"Some folk'll never lose a toe, but then again some folk'll. Like Cleetus, the pale faced yokel.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

white as the driven snow

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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

This guy seems a little more considerate than those he is mocking lol

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[–] schwim@reddthat.com 40 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I don't know, that's awfully PC. Shouldn't it say "Whiteys" or similar?

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Its pointing out that "redskins" is offensive, but not being offensive to do it.

You could say being formal is itself another joke on top of the contrast, as "indigenous" or "first peoples" would be an equally stupid football team name as "Caucasians."

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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

He wants to parody the thing, not get murdered by a random hillbilly...

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[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Caucasians football is sponsored by mayonnaise and friendly interactions with law enforcement.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

lol ... I'm Ojibway-Cree from northern Ontario in Canada ... born and bred Indigenous and speak my own language

My family friends and I had a hell of laugh a few years ago when Heinz announced it's new mayonnaise sauce - Mayochup ... some weird combination of mayonnaise and ketchup

In English it sounds like nothing ... but in Cree, Ojibway and Ojibway-Cree ... it translates as 'shit face' ...

  • May-yeh -- translates as 'shit' or 'feces'
  • the ending 'chup' ... is a descriptive ending you tack onto the end of a word to denote that it refers to a individuals face

Mayo-chup ... literally means 'shit face' in my language

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[–] Haphazard9479@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I'm a whiteskin and I'd wear it.

[–] youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

It would hit a little different if you wore it

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure if a white person wears it, it might be taken as a more white power thing than a mocking thing. I think it would be hilarious to wear, but I don't want to send the wrong message.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

This one is more clear about being a spoof:

EDIT: Some alternative takes:

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[–] omega_x3@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I insist on being referred to as whitey mcwhitey face

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[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The edit is significantly worse. Now it's tied to the Simpsons and feels forced. Paleskins would be better than Paleface and the aggressively generic looking white guy of the previous logo was better.

[–] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Plus, that character is obviously yellow.

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[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Not my first choice of a shirt, but I wouldn't mind wearing it.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think the team ought to keep the redskins name, but switch their mascot and logos to a bag of potatoes.

Also, love the shirt, although I think "white devils" or "invaders" would be a better insulting team name.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Every third or fourth catholic school has a team named "crusaders" and I find that baffling.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

"Colonizers"

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[–] rooster_butt@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why did this image get edited to a Simpsons character paleface instead of the original Caucasian?

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[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (49 children)

I don't feel insulted at all. Sorry.

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (18 children)

That is what we call Privilege.

[–] R2DPru@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

With a capital P? It’s a proper noun?

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[–] Candybar121@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

"kind of"

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shouldn't that be white skins?

Either way, fine with me. I think we shouldn't make small things big issues, we got much MUCH bigger fish to fry

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[–] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When did caucasian become synonym of white? The caucasus is a small area between russia and the middle east, I'm not caucasian

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[–] GTG3000@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The funniest part is that people from the caucasus are actually darker-skinned.

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[–] BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who is 'we'?

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