Comment on They deported my Chihuahua
cyborganism@piefed.ca 2 days ago
That's a bit offensive, no?
No… Do you think Mexicans are ashamed of Chihuahuas? Or sombreros? Putting the two together? They love that, it’s their culture and they love to share it. That’s not even a generalization, it’s part of their culture
Or do you think they’d be offended by a joke about ICE doing nonsensical deportations?
Did you just call Mexican culture offensive?
Yeah, a pretty racist meme imo.
Honest question, Is it racist to train a GSD to take commands in German, or to put a musher hat on an Alaskan Malamute? They are dogs that come from an nation/state. Or are you trying to say that a sombrero is offensive to the people of Mexico?
The fact that people are being deported based off how they look or where they come from is racist, I can’t see how honoring a heritage or bringing cultural differences into your culture is racist.
When your anti-ICE meme is indistinguishable from anything a white supremacist group would make celebrating ICE there are some problems.
Is it racist to train a GSD to take commands in German,
Unless you’re German, it’s at least weird and notable, because why? The dog doesn’t speak German, any more than the average USian who calls themself German-American because of that one ancestor who immigrated from Germany 300 years ago.
That’s exactly the point, dog trainers do quite often use commands in other languages so that the dog doesn’t hear the command words in everyday life and gets desensitized to it.
Hard to be racist if being mexican is not a race. May xenophobic?!
Okay, but when we have to nitpick the semantics of the bigotry at play there’s a problem here.
Oh because the Sombrero didn't make it obvious enough?
That joke is not funny. Making fun of people getting kidnapped by a fascist government organisation is not funny.
I’m not saying you’re wrong but I think it is interesting that your interpretation of the meme is that it is a joke against the people being targeted by ICE while I immediately thought the meme was about how brain dead ICE officers are that they would target a dog simply because it had a sombrero on. I have no idea what the OP’s intention was when making the meme. Maybe I just made my assumption based on the fact that this was shared on Lemmy which is overwhelmingly against ICE. If I saw this shared by a conservative person I would more than likely share you sentiment though.
Ah I see your point. That makes sense then.
dude calm down I’m not american not even close to it thank god.
Why? And to whom?
CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 days ago
I’m very offended by racists and fascists