#Twitter meme identifies things that feel racist, but technically aren’t
“#Twitter meme identifies things that feel racist, but technically aren’t”
A new Twitter meme has users listing things that feel suss to them, despite being fairly innocuous on the face of it. Subtler than microaggressions, these objects and actions don’t hold any particular connotations at first glance, but are so frequently accompanied by certain behaviour that they’re now guilty by association.
It’s the doctrine of joint criminal enterprise, but with bigotry.
The meme was kicked off on Tuesday by Twitter user abcdrih, who asked, “What’s something that ISN’T racist but still FEELS racist to you?”
Her own examples included white men in flip flops, jorts, “those small white karen ass dogs,” and people who don’t wear face masks.
i’ll go first, white men in flip flops. ???
— rebecca (@abcdrih) November 10, 2020
This question prompted a plethora of deeply relatable answers, with mainly people of colour listing the seemingly innocuous things that set off their alarm bells.
Whether everything mentioned isn’t actually racist is debatable, but there’s no denying the xenophobic vibes they radiate.
A white girl wearing hoop earrings driving a pickup truck with a bull bar isn’t bad on the surface. Some people may consider decorative cotton and live laugh love-style cursive font to be charming home decor. But to others, they scream Get Out.
when the Black family loses on Family Feud https://t.co/2T93JSHA3y
— love yo self. (@MichellCClark) November 10, 2020
1. ???????, 2. ?? or 3. ?? in a Twitter name https://t.co/UBWy5aS6YF
— diastema kween (@_abzx) November 10, 2020
Pics of people holding fish https://t.co/614QW4EsmT
— Bria Celest (@55mmbae) November 10, 2020
posting a story of an asian nail tech giving u a pedicure https://t.co/iVTA5cAr0Z
— aamer (@aamersnow) November 10, 2020
white people speaking in tongues https://t.co/93qSFDkYid
— Moses Sumney (@MosesSumney) November 11, 2020
When white girls say sis https://t.co/s3uOlKe1Xx
— killaky (@koko4ky) November 11, 2020
when the only black chef gets sent home on Chopped https://t.co/n5EcbuCLDU
— vehemently, lauren b. brown (@RAGGEDYROYAL) November 11, 2020
Non-black people using the word ghetto. https://t.co/teCtfmAxIu
— Jordan Sumbu (@JordanSumbu) November 11, 2020
wearing shoes in the house https://t.co/VjF3YfeAiC
— jonny sun wrote a new book! (@jonnysun) November 11, 2020
Dress codes at bars & restaurants https://t.co/1E9MoF9wl2
— Onyx? (@Allanah_Morales) November 11, 2020
American flags in front of homes. https://t.co/EcxciClfYj
— Frederick Joseph (@FredTJoseph) November 11, 2020
When white women wear gold nameplate jewelry and/or long, heavily designed, acrylic nails. https://t.co/tyDUFvNIS4
— Shelby Ivey Christie (@bronze_bombSHEL) November 11, 2020
owning a golden retriever https://t.co/OckCxMAAcM
— taylor garron (@taylorgarron) November 11, 2020
The meme format has since spawned a number of spinoffs, with Twitter users asking what other things evoke a quality they don’t actually possess.
Again, whether all of these aren’t what they appear to be is contentious. Some things that feel homophobic are, in fact, homophobic. But by and large, this meme speaks more to the instinctive identification skills that people in marginalised communities often develop out of sheer self-preservation.
straight women covering take me to church but changing the pronouns to he/him https://t.co/ZyeTZr5NlV
— Sarah Z (@marysuewriter) November 11, 2020
straight people saying the word homosexual https://t.co/q4n1OrkhpX
— mitski (@mitskiIeaks) November 11, 2020
cis people going “why arent your pronouns in your bio? ?” https://t.co/VOeCmaRK2u
— misa misa 2 (@MuriahCarey) November 11, 2020
Number one, obviously pic.twitter.com/ntlD1PM823
— Nathan McDermott (@natemcdermott) November 11, 2020
Scarlett Johansson
— nidhi (@nerdyreddy) November 11, 2020
failing to signal when merging on the highway https://t.co/oehHEi6EQl
— sarah schauer ? (@sarahschauer) November 11, 2020
— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) November 11, 2020
I was going to do a joke answer but I realized I feel very strongly about my real answer: overemphasizing Chanukah https://t.co/vRqVU90zC2
— Jess Zimmerman (@j_zimms) November 11, 2020
what’s something that ISN’T human eyeballs but still FEELS like human eyeballs to you?
— Paul F. Tompkins (@PFTompkins) November 11, 2020
they feel racist
— Marcella Arguello (@marcellacomedy) November 11, 2020
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