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    People who think the harambe meme is something racist are the true racists.

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    Stupid people got harambe killed and stupid people are spreading the meme, hmm I wonder where the problem is.

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    BigUP and appendages out for harambae - great post, I r8 8/8 m8

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thurin View Post
    Harambe was just a gorilla.
    HOLD ME BACK!!!! Hold me the fuck back!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thurin View Post
    Harambe was just a gorilla.
    If it happened in Norway, you'd be out on the streets protesting naked though

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    Quote Originally Posted by GennGreymane View Post
    HOLD ME BACK!!!! Hold me the fuck back!
    ***Holds GG BACK!!!!***

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    I'd consider calling this fake outrage.
    "In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." Paradox of tolerance

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kuthe View Post
    One of my old acquaintances wrote this on Facebook, and it's all I have to say, because I wholeheartingly agree;

    You know what really rustles my jimmies? Harambe memes.
    The death of the gorilla has been taken to excruciating lengths, but why is it so good at spreading? Because the name is easy to say, yet rooted in a non roman or germanic intonation. This is Orientalism writ large.
    Following this, artistic license builds a trend around "my nigga harambe" and #justice4harambe. These are parodies of one specific culture: Black America. In adopting racialised vernacular and hashtags relating to authoritarian death, we can channel sympathy for Harambe in the same way we would the Black Lives Matter campaign. Except here, it is always tongue in cheek. No one really cares about Harambe, right?
    And therein lies the problem. In turning Harambe into the pastiche of black death, people are granting themselves free reign to ridicule black people through not so subtle racism.
    For anyone who thinks I'm reading too much into it, we have an almost direct example in Cecil the Lion. That animal's death wasn't characterised in the same way so broadly. What is the point of difference? Is it his Anglo name? Or the fact that he's blond?
    That is why Harambe is a shit meme and the gorilla of choice should be shhh no tears.
    I disagree. And not for anything that he has written, because I think his opinion is pretty close to spot on. Granted I would say the focus on Harambe is more because of the reasons behind his death. Cecil was shot by a white guy dentist who liked to big game hunt *queue white racism and big game hunting BS*. The focus was on the shooter. Same goes for that hot white girl who also big game hunts, no one cares about the animals she shoots, just veiled racism against white people doing things like killing animals. Harambe on the other hand started to lean that way, everyone was up in arms over the gorilla, calling for the parents heads etc... Until they found out the kid was Black. Then it suddenly became Dicks out for Harambe.

    Most people moved on. The people who haven't aren't intelligent enough to realize the Harambe BS has all been subtle racism.

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    I only play Winston in Harambe honor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by derpkitteh View Post

    and bantu, who was killed in the process of being raped.
    I thought Bantu was killed when Dopinder's taxi was rearende... uh.... nvm, i get it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by McFuu View Post
    I disagree. And not for anything that he has written, because I think his opinion is pretty close to spot on. Granted I would say the focus on Harambe is more because of the reasons behind his death. Cecil was shot by a white guy dentist who liked to big game hunt *queue white racism and big game hunting BS*. The focus was on the shooter. Same goes for that hot white girl who also big game hunts, no one cares about the animals she shoots, just veiled racism against white people doing things like killing animals. Harambe on the other hand started to lean that way, everyone was up in arms over the gorilla, calling for the parents heads etc... Until they found out the kid was Black. Then it suddenly became Dicks out for Harambe.

    Most people moved on. The people who haven't aren't intelligent enough to realize the Harambe BS has all been subtle racism.
    I care about both sides and both animals. I'm sure some of it has been racist towards Harambe, but most of it hasn't.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thurin View Post
    Harambe was just a gorilla.
    I don't even remember if the little retard kid was white or black. I wouldn't have clapped the G like that. It was just a kid.
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    Meant Wetback. That's what the guy from Home Depot called it anyway.
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    Cecil the Lion wanted Harambe dead.
    With COVID-19 making its impact on our lives, I have decided that I shall hang in there for my remaining days, skip some meals, try to get children to experiment with making henna patterns on their skin, and plant some trees. You know -- live, fast, dye young, and leave a pretty copse. I feel like I may not have that quite right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thurin View Post
    Harambe was a just gorilla.
    Fixed your typo
    All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side

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    Who? Also, who cares?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darsithis View Post
    I can't believe how many people like to pretend that they really care with online outrage about something that would have appeared very different in front of them.
    Nope, would still mourn Harambe.
    Originally Posted by Zarhym (Blue Tracker)
    this thread is a waste of internet

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    This thread is basically the equivalent of a beef stew of memes.

    Closing this, since there's really not much more to discuss than memes it appears anyway.

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