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I thought the Harambe meme was funny until I learned that it was largely an excuse to demean the black family whose "fault" it was for his death.
Yeah, not to doxx myself too much but I am close with someone who lived in Cincinnati when it happened, and he was very in tune with African American concerns there (it was huge at that time in Cincinnati, I hear) and this was the only aspect I heard about, so the meme was immediately super sour to me
The memes seemed to be spread and the name mentioned entirely by young white xbox gamer type bros in my experience, so I wasn't sure but definitely felt like it was primarily a racist thing.
Wait, the child involved in the Harambe affair was Black?
What you think they'd run a 15 year long dehumanising campaign on a white child?
They would due to a "Darwin award" angle, but the kid being Black gives extra fuel for the fire, definitely