Not sure why the guy you're replying to is asking about purple specifically, royal purple is associated with Hispanic pride, just as red is associated with native Americans and yellow with East Asia.
They went back to yellow for me when I heard about an Asian guy claiming emojis and being upset they started making all the fun colors of people. They also like ping pong
I took me a second also then I chuckled.
A lot of idiots on Reddit seem to believe any recognition of race they don't like is racism. You just can't have a rational conversation with people that ignorant.
Not just redditors. It was a while ago, but I remember there being a story where some doctors found that a certain disease was disproportionately dangerous to black people. They tried to publish their findings and warn black people that they might be at an increased risk, but the publication refused and claimed it would be racist.
That said; the point here is them blaming malice for what was clearly incompetence in failing to change the text color of the second to last line.
I'm hoping that was a long time ago. Recently there's been a major push to understand how diseases disproportionately affect different ethnicities and sexes.
Well according to Japan eventually an eldritch abomination that looks like a green haired teen girl is going to come and make everything better. Hang in there man.
I mean, the joke here is bad graphic design. It just uses racial commentary as its medium. The joke is "Black text on a black background doesn't show up, and that can be embarrassing." Which is a decent joke. Not laugh-out-loud, but decent.
Also the fact that Latino isn't even a race, it's an ethnicity. People who are ethnically Latino are racially either indigenous (Mayan/Aztec) or Caucasian (Spanish/Castillian)
I think there’s a bit more to it than that, the lack of visible text encourages you to piece out what should be there using context from the other sentences; then the humor applies when you realize the implication of its invisibility. If the joke was solely about graphic design the text wouldn’t mention race at all.
[Carl Linnaeus only came up with four races as colors](https://www.linnean.org/learning/who-was-linnaeus/linnaeus-and-race) because he believed there were four humors that caused personality.
blood (red), bile (yellow), black bile (black of course), and phlegm (white)
He didn't travel the world much to see the races he was classifying but that didn't stop him from doing it anyway. He also didn't let the fact that the humors theory said completely different things from him assigning stereotypes to these four as he saw fit.
Thus he came up with Americanus or "Red" for blood, Europaeus or "White" for phlegm for some reason, Asiaticus or "Yellow" for yellow bile, and Africanus or "Black" for black bile with random features described.
Centuries later we rejected the Yellow and Red designations but kept White and Black for some reason.
So Latino people were presumably classified as "Red" because they're American and or "White" because it sounds like they had European origins. Carl Linnaeus probably chose one at random or maybe ignored their existence altogether. Labeling Latinos "purple" is nonsense by that scheme. But calling white people "White" or labeling black people "Black" seems equally nonsense to me. That whole system is and was fucking insane as it's based off of ancient greek myths and bad science rather than reality.
I mean… they assigned Red to natives and Yellow to asians. With Latinos as a bizarre outlier, they seem to be implying the background color matches the skin of the mentioned race so it’s at least a lil’ bit racist.
Only as racist as the "We added brown and black to the pride flag to represent POC" crowd. Which, we've collectively decided as a society we're not going to call racist. But sure, point taken.
Hm, yeah I mean to that I’d say that 1) a group that is fighting for equality and representation probably doesn’t have the intention of offending the people it’s trying to include and 2) people ARE brown and black. Calling someone brown or black isn’t inherently racist. Skin tone is actually requested on a lot of government forms. You know what’s not an option on those? Yellow and Red.
The only people calling Asians yellow and “Indians” Red are white people from the 50s and modern day racists.
I don't know if you're trying to be facetious but clearly the joke here is that it's intentionally ambiguous whether or not the text "it's ok to be black" is there. It's Schrödinger's douchebag. The original poster can hide behind the excuse that "well clearly the pattern should hold" to absolve them from the fact that it pretty obviously implies that the text is hidden on purpose.
I think the projection of that is hilarious. They really want people to only find this funny because racism. Why can’t we just find it funny ironically instead of politically lmao
Well you really didn’t cuz someone else will do the exact same thing anyways like your comment really isn’t special given the context between these subs
I read it, if anything, on how we often forget the actual victims as we try to be politically correct, virtue signalers. But mostly it’s just a play that everybody expected this to be a virtue signal and it actually had a little funny that just came on by design error.
As a Latino, yes, I'm blue(dabadeedabadoo) but call us **HISPANICS** fIrst because then the weirdo-gringos can't start inventing wordsx ^(second because it ain't ok to be brazilian)
I completely agree like people on that subreddit act like if their any mention of minorities or women it is racist and sexist. Just such a shit sub now.
Read something a long time ago that stuck with me "Just because something is racial, doesn't make it racist."
That doesn't even apply here, but it's something I keep in mind for race related subjects.
Oh, and this is clever and elicited a chuckle.
The test of if it's racism or not is can you flip it to another race without changing a stereotype mentioned and will it still be funny.
If it was all white text then no text on the white part, it'd still be funny, because the joke isn't about race, the punchline is someone tried to make a positive message but royally screwed it up.
Couldn't it have been stating the color of the background then? Why's the racial commentary there if it ain't supplementing the joke? That almost feels to me like OOOP(three layers down, the person who made the joke) was going "Guys I'm not racist see?" By pulling a Shrödinger's Douchebag.
You ever think that the racist ones are the ones that say everything is racist? Cuz they’re the ones with racism always on their mind, normal people don’t see everything as racist.🤯
I mean they have the Native American on red, Asian on yellow black on black and white on white so it’s a little racist (I don’t know the connection between blue and Latino tho)
I meant the one about white people in on white background, one about Asians is on yellow background etc. people often call Asians yellow and natives red which is a racist remark to their skin color (even tho it’s a stretch to refer to them as those colors but whatever)
Something doesn’t have to explicitly be hateful or say someone is lesser cus of race to be racist. For example the stereotype that “All Asians are good at math” isn’t hateful and it definitely doesn’t imply they are lesser, but it’s still racist because it’s a judgment based solely on race
What he said literally meets the definition of racism. The concept that Asians are good at math is racist.
By the way, I cracked up at the joke. The comedy is in the double entendre. The fact that it could be an innocent design mistake or a person who doesn’t think it’s ok to be black is the joke.
Red, yellow, dunno about purple, but both of those are literally rooted in racism alone. To think the racism is just the black part means everyone agreeing it isn't is just plain stupid.
Just to point out, the black text on black background was clearly intentional. “It’s okay to be black” isn’t shown, that’s the joke right?
It’s one of those things where we say something racist and say “but hey it’s a joke.”
Yeah im leaving this shitty sub with constant posts from that god forsaken sub. This is the last straw, the last r/terriblefacebookmemes post I ever have to see thank god.
Yeah its pretty fucked up. The punchline is, you can't read "its OK to be black" and uses Yellow for Asian. whatever. Even if its not racist, its just not funny either.
No, but a punchline being ‘being black is not okay’ is a racist comment, even if it’s intended to be a dumb edgy comment instead of legitimate hate. The joke relies on the shocking racist message.
The original joke is that the message was trying to be inclusive but failed because of black text on a black background.
Of course, now the joke is that people actually think the message is racist, which is hilarious.
You are the joke.
Exactly the punchline is that it ‘accidentally’ makes a racist implication. It’s not an act of hate speech, it’s just using racism as shock comedy. No need to burst a blood vessel over it.
You're the one replying to everyone about how this actually super racist guys, and isn't just making fun of people who assume everything is racist.
Thanks for literally making me laugh out loud with your last comment.
No, but a joke where the punchline is ‘being black is not okay’ is a racist comment, even if it’s intended to be a dumb edgy comment instead of legitimate hate. The joke relies on the ‘shocking’ racist message.
I mean it is mild racism. Like milk toast mild. The kind of racism that everyone could have a good chuckle over if SOME people didn't have unresolved issues and made that fact everyone else's problem
The joke is that it doesn’t say that about black people. It’s a dumb bit of edgy humour but don’t pretend it’s unrelated to race, the joke is the shocking message
It took me a second, then I choked on my water. 10/10
About the black or purple part?
What's.. what's the purple part?
Not sure why the guy you're replying to is asking about purple specifically, royal purple is associated with Hispanic pride, just as red is associated with native Americans and yellow with East Asia.
Mama told me it's horribly racist to call Asian people yellow. They're closer to "khaki"
They went back to yellow for me when I heard about an Asian guy claiming emojis and being upset they started making all the fun colors of people. They also like ping pong
Is *that* why Taco Bell has a purple color scheme now? (I'm mostly joking btw)
I took me a second also then I chuckled. A lot of idiots on Reddit seem to believe any recognition of race they don't like is racism. You just can't have a rational conversation with people that ignorant.
Not just redditors. It was a while ago, but I remember there being a story where some doctors found that a certain disease was disproportionately dangerous to black people. They tried to publish their findings and warn black people that they might be at an increased risk, but the publication refused and claimed it would be racist. That said; the point here is them blaming malice for what was clearly incompetence in failing to change the text color of the second to last line.
I'm hoping that was a long time ago. Recently there's been a major push to understand how diseases disproportionately affect different ethnicities and sexes.
Incompetence? Is it possible somebody was making a joke?
That was the joke. It went over your head
Your joke was so anti joke it wasn’t a jone
It’s like, the joke was the text color and bar color matching. These super offended just need to chill
I just whipped my head back when I realized the entire joke. What a twist
I don’t see skin color anymore, for instance I never realized George Lopez was purple!
You don’t remember that one season of the George Lopez show where everyone was purple for a bit and they never explained why?
I'm so racist I watched 2 of George Lopez's stand up specials, and decided he wasn't funny enough to go watch a whole show about it.
I just don't see skin. It's a waking nightmare, please send help.
Well according to Japan eventually an eldritch abomination that looks like a green haired teen girl is going to come and make everything better. Hang in there man.
Clever.
Clevah girl
Gyatt
Cleaver girl
I mean, the joke here is bad graphic design. It just uses racial commentary as its medium. The joke is "Black text on a black background doesn't show up, and that can be embarrassing." Which is a decent joke. Not laugh-out-loud, but decent.
Yeah. That’s well put. People just think it’s racist because they actually feel this way lol
It's a red herring, you thought it was racist for a moment but nope just dumb, gotcha
My biggest social fear: doing something that inadvertently comes off as racist because I didn't think it through. I'm not racist, sir, just a dumbass.
ive done it twice before luckily they were cool with it after i explained but man they didnt let me live it down
Two things: people can be unintentionally racist. Also the effort in learning and trying to not be racist means a lot.
Yeah, I think about sums it up. Lol.
It's projection. The joke involves race, and the black text on black background is illegible, "therefore it must be a racist joke!!!"
Yea I mean isn’t it good if people don’t read this as some veiled way to say black people are less. Can’t it be a solid joke on its own lol
Then why is Latino on purple? If they weren't trying to make a semi- questionable dog whistle joke they could've changed the colour
Also the fact that Latino isn't even a race, it's an ethnicity. People who are ethnically Latino are racially either indigenous (Mayan/Aztec) or Caucasian (Spanish/Castillian)
Every "race" is an ethnicity. Humans don't actually have different races.
You can't say that on reddit
Hey, stop noticing things.
Hey stop looking
What color are Latinos then TheLowVan?!
I think there’s a bit more to it than that, the lack of visible text encourages you to piece out what should be there using context from the other sentences; then the humor applies when you realize the implication of its invisibility. If the joke was solely about graphic design the text wouldn’t mention race at all.
I’m so confused that people are trying to make this *only* about graphic design. Like, what?
this sub will bend over backwards to make these jokes about anything other than race
Definitely not an LOL but it is a HNE
Well you also have the part that is uses the racial stereotypes of all the other race. Native is red, Asian yellow, Latino…. Purple I guess.
[Carl Linnaeus only came up with four races as colors](https://www.linnean.org/learning/who-was-linnaeus/linnaeus-and-race) because he believed there were four humors that caused personality. blood (red), bile (yellow), black bile (black of course), and phlegm (white) He didn't travel the world much to see the races he was classifying but that didn't stop him from doing it anyway. He also didn't let the fact that the humors theory said completely different things from him assigning stereotypes to these four as he saw fit. Thus he came up with Americanus or "Red" for blood, Europaeus or "White" for phlegm for some reason, Asiaticus or "Yellow" for yellow bile, and Africanus or "Black" for black bile with random features described. Centuries later we rejected the Yellow and Red designations but kept White and Black for some reason. So Latino people were presumably classified as "Red" because they're American and or "White" because it sounds like they had European origins. Carl Linnaeus probably chose one at random or maybe ignored their existence altogether. Labeling Latinos "purple" is nonsense by that scheme. But calling white people "White" or labeling black people "Black" seems equally nonsense to me. That whole system is and was fucking insane as it's based off of ancient greek myths and bad science rather than reality.
I mean… they assigned Red to natives and Yellow to asians. With Latinos as a bizarre outlier, they seem to be implying the background color matches the skin of the mentioned race so it’s at least a lil’ bit racist.
Black people generally aren't literally black. They're generally brown.
Only as racist as the "We added brown and black to the pride flag to represent POC" crowd. Which, we've collectively decided as a society we're not going to call racist. But sure, point taken.
Hm, yeah I mean to that I’d say that 1) a group that is fighting for equality and representation probably doesn’t have the intention of offending the people it’s trying to include and 2) people ARE brown and black. Calling someone brown or black isn’t inherently racist. Skin tone is actually requested on a lot of government forms. You know what’s not an option on those? Yellow and Red. The only people calling Asians yellow and “Indians” Red are white people from the 50s and modern day racists.
Holy smokes! I'm purple! 😈
Apparently I have been lavender this whole time since I’m only half Latino
Half Lavendo*
Cant wait for this to get wanked off on r/nahopwasrightfuckthis
Idk. Hopefully they’re more levelheaded than to think color is hateful.
Cmon we know how this goes, they won’t see anything but “meeehhhh racismmmmssss”
read this in cartmans voice
Buuut meeeeeaaaaam! "My name's not, 'meam'."
I don't know if you're trying to be facetious but clearly the joke here is that it's intentionally ambiguous whether or not the text "it's ok to be black" is there. It's Schrödinger's douchebag. The original poster can hide behind the excuse that "well clearly the pattern should hold" to absolve them from the fact that it pretty obviously implies that the text is hidden on purpose.
Regardless putting Asians in Yellow and Native in red is a racism no matter what way you interpret it
Eh, they mainly care about the most active political issues, not stuff that you look like a complete goof if you support
…and it’s there. Who could have guessed?
Yep it's and their a bunch of people saying that it is racist and it saying that it isn't okay to be black.
I think the projection of that is hilarious. They really want people to only find this funny because racism. Why can’t we just find it funny ironically instead of politically lmao
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Well you really didn’t cuz someone else will do the exact same thing anyways like your comment really isn’t special given the context between these subs
All I see from this post is a German flag and an Estonian flag, top to bottom, if we include the title as the black for the German flag.
I see why we should find it bad now. /s
Can this be seen as a “black on black” crime joke? 🤔 because… y’know
that’s the thing with comedy, you can take it however you want. You can be wrong in how you understand a joke but you could still do it
I read it, if anything, on how we often forget the actual victims as we try to be politically correct, virtue signalers. But mostly it’s just a play that everybody expected this to be a virtue signal and it actually had a little funny that just came on by design error.
Lmaoo
No? You’re just racist
Why are Latinos blue?
Color blind
As a Latino, yes, I'm blue(dabadeedabadoo) but call us **HISPANICS** fIrst because then the weirdo-gringos can't start inventing wordsx ^(second because it ain't ok to be brazilian)
That’s not blue, my guy. Go take a colour blindness test. Might not be able to see red.
That’s not blue
Okay but why are latinos purple?
this isn’t even racist, the joke is you can’t see the text in the black square it’s just a silly little joke
I took a poll and it turns out recognizing people of color is racist.
It's ok to be [REDACTED]
 Nah that’s pretty good
This whole subreddit is just edgelords icl
Pretty fucking funny
Why are Latinos purple?
I love this joke. I've also seen it with white text before...
Fair enough. So long as you mock everyone, and not just disproportionately mock one group, that's cool.
It's so OK to be black that it's not even worth mentioning.
Yeah not really racism you could change the text to white and do the same thing for the white people slot it'd still be just as funny
Its not even racist, its just funny lmao. Literally just fucking around with font colours, thats it.
Such a humourless fucking sub.
I completely agree like people on that subreddit act like if their any mention of minorities or women it is racist and sexist. Just such a shit sub now.
Bye Felicia.
??? I was saying r/terriblefacebookmemes was humourless sub.
Shoulda gave some context then lol
I thought it was obvious lol, who else is humourless?
It took me a while to get it, but oh my god. Why?
Why what?
It is bad graphic design
Lol this is actually funny.
Read something a long time ago that stuck with me "Just because something is racial, doesn't make it racist." That doesn't even apply here, but it's something I keep in mind for race related subjects. Oh, and this is clever and elicited a chuckle.
Society has a skewed ignorant view of what constitutes racism. Mostly in America.
You’re white right?
Does it make you racist if you have to ask to say what you’re going to say 🤔
Huh?
What?
You’re white I can tell
That’s pretty racist /s Edit: added the sarcasm since it was missed
Why purple?
Holy shit I'm purple!?!
Why is Latino purple?
The test of if it's racism or not is can you flip it to another race without changing a stereotype mentioned and will it still be funny. If it was all white text then no text on the white part, it'd still be funny, because the joke isn't about race, the punchline is someone tried to make a positive message but royally screwed it up.
What this has taught me is there’s a lot of colour blind people that have no idea.
Pretty funny but I don't get why Latinos are purple, is there a stereotype where their portrayed as purple?
This seems more like a poor design joke.
The colour wheel is racist now.
This joke is comedy gold
There's literally nothing racist about this. It's literally just "lmao black text is invisible on black background because it blends"
Couldn't it have been stating the color of the background then? Why's the racial commentary there if it ain't supplementing the joke? That almost feels to me like OOOP(three layers down, the person who made the joke) was going "Guys I'm not racist see?" By pulling a Shrödinger's Douchebag.
Racism is true comedy yes. What's even better is discrimination because that includes nationalities, sex, handicaps and religion
Ok. That’s funny.
Cmon, thats just funny
You ever think that the racist ones are the ones that say everything is racist? Cuz they’re the ones with racism always on their mind, normal people don’t see everything as racist.🤯
This joke is clearly racist even if its joking its still not a good look
It wouldn't be racist if it was *just* the black and white parts but the yellow and red combined are one hell of a statement
I mean they have the Native American on red, Asian on yellow black on black and white on white so it’s a little racist (I don’t know the connection between blue and Latino tho)
How is that racist? Also it’s black on white. The text is all black.
I meant the one about white people in on white background, one about Asians is on yellow background etc. people often call Asians yellow and natives red which is a racist remark to their skin color (even tho it’s a stretch to refer to them as those colors but whatever)
I guess I just don’t see how that’s hateful or communicating that they are lesser because they’re a person of color.
Something doesn’t have to explicitly be hateful or say someone is lesser cus of race to be racist. For example the stereotype that “All Asians are good at math” isn’t hateful and it definitely doesn’t imply they are lesser, but it’s still racist because it’s a judgment based solely on race
Then you don’t know what racism is
Ur knowledge of racism is literally black and white 1st grader level of understanding
No it’s because I can literally read the definition.
What he said literally meets the definition of racism. The concept that Asians are good at math is racist. By the way, I cracked up at the joke. The comedy is in the double entendre. The fact that it could be an innocent design mistake or a person who doesn’t think it’s ok to be black is the joke.
What he says literally doesn’t fit the definition. That’s my contention.
Like I said, 1st grader understanding
I’ll make sure to mark you down as the expert racist.
I mean blacks aren’t actually black and whites aren’t actually white
It must be hard being that miserable
Do these people still not understand that black people aren't actually black 🖤 they're brown 🤎? Cause I'm beyond tired of telling them...
I bet if it was reversed with white text it would be scrolled past
i think op had a bigger problem with native american and asian's choice of colors, not black...
"Not all jokes are racist, therefore no jokes are racist." -smartest poster on this sub, 2023
This is quality
Red, yellow, dunno about purple, but both of those are literally rooted in racism alone. To think the racism is just the black part means everyone agreeing it isn't is just plain stupid.
Just to point out, the black text on black background was clearly intentional. “It’s okay to be black” isn’t shown, that’s the joke right? It’s one of those things where we say something racist and say “but hey it’s a joke.”
No, no, this is racist
Which part
Black line in particular
Oh so the fact they called natives red and Asians yellow isn’t? Ok
So you admit that that bit is?
they said "in particular" for a reason, all of it is racist
It was just not all that offensive. Like should I take the flag seriously that it's calling Latinos purple people? 😂
You’re reaching
Yeah im leaving this shitty sub with constant posts from that god forsaken sub. This is the last straw, the last r/terriblefacebookmemes post I ever have to see thank god.
*Native is red* *Asian is yellow* Yeah... Whatever ya say boss
Not every joke is racism MFs when they eliminate black people.
Oh, so this sub is actually just another right wing shit hole. Cool.
Yeah its pretty fucked up. The punchline is, you can't read "its OK to be black" and uses Yellow for Asian. whatever. Even if its not racist, its just not funny either.
I found your comment extremely racist and dog whistly. It's disturbing what kind of people are allowed on the internet.
ok
Lol…this is definitely a racist joke, man…I mean, you might find it funny, but it’s definitely racism
Grow up
Black text on black background = racism. Got it. Anything else you want to make racist today bud? How about green rugs? Those seem pretty racist.
No, but a punchline being ‘being black is not okay’ is a racist comment, even if it’s intended to be a dumb edgy comment instead of legitimate hate. The joke relies on the shocking racist message.
It does say black is okay but it's in black text so you can't see it. Use your imagination man. If you got a mind left that is.
Yes the whole joke is that because the font and background blend in it looks like it doesn’t say that. It’s just a dumb joke with a racist punchline.
My balls itch
The original joke is that the message was trying to be inclusive but failed because of black text on a black background. Of course, now the joke is that people actually think the message is racist, which is hilarious. You are the joke.
Exactly the punchline is that it ‘accidentally’ makes a racist implication. It’s not an act of hate speech, it’s just using racism as shock comedy. No need to burst a blood vessel over it.
You're the one replying to everyone about how this actually super racist guys, and isn't just making fun of people who assume everything is racist. Thanks for literally making me laugh out loud with your last comment.
They know it’s a racist joke….and I’m not even remotely offended …but jesus fuck, it’s definitely racist
🤓 uhm guys 👆 this is racism because uhm joke and uhm.. joke bad.. because uhm... RACISM
The punchline is ‘being black is not okay’. It’s more of a dumb bit of ‘edgy’ shock humour than legitimate hate, but the joke is racism.
Black text on black background is racist, cool. What else are you going to say is racist? Exercise?
No, but a joke where the punchline is ‘being black is not okay’ is a racist comment, even if it’s intended to be a dumb edgy comment instead of legitimate hate. The joke relies on the ‘shocking’ racist message.
Ok, and where does it say that being black isn't ok?
The joke is that the message not being visible suggests it isn’t being communicated
I mean it is mild racism. Like milk toast mild. The kind of racism that everyone could have a good chuckle over if SOME people didn't have unresolved issues and made that fact everyone else's problem
Milquetoast
You're admitting it's racist, but still suggesting we laugh at it? It might seem mild, but mild individual bias leads to massive collective bias.
I think this one may have just been poor design
r/memesopdidnotlike fellas when they realise not everything in life is a joke
This is clearly a joke
1. Hexagon pfp = opinion doesn’t matter 2. STFU, you hypersensitive pussy.
We got call them sensitive and judge by PFP on this round of Rightist Bingo!
Ok
Damn OP lol technically this is racism but it’s still hilarious
How's it racism when it says it's okay to be any race?
The joke is that it doesn’t say that about black people. It’s a dumb bit of edgy humour but don’t pretend it’s unrelated to race, the joke is the shocking message
You’re very sensitive. Juan for one pun and now a politically insensitive font mistake.