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Trump posts video meme showing Barack, Michelle Obama as apes (www.usatoday.com)

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 19 hours ago

The origin of the word meme, as well as the concepts before the coining of the term, are all neutral to the subject or purpose. A meme can easily be hate speech if it's spread as any meme is. It's true that its use in popular culture now mainly means something that has spread on the internet (not just an image), but that's only because the internet is the fastest way for anything to travel through large populations.