Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t understand how jokes about life-threatening diseases can be funny. Yes, there are entire YouTube videos of people using the Uganda Knuckles meme while making Ebola jokes. So, let’s combine the shitty, minstrel-level, Jim Crow-era humor with the Ebola jokes that are also being throw around carelessly. And according to Denny, the original poster, this wasn’t the only Uganda Knuckles with this skin.
I hope I don’t need to explain why that is extremely racist. The tweet that is linked shows a screenshot of one Uganda Knuckles with pitch black skin, huge red lips and a watermelon across the front of its chest. Even if they were aware, that doesn’t mean that people couldn’t have possibly used this meme for racist motives. Second, let’s also consider the strong possibility that most people that hopped on this bandwagon were completely unaware of the meme’s origin. Having attention brought to your accent (or if you don’t speak English at all) can be nerve-wracking depending on the environment. Anybody that is not white in America and doesn’t speak perfect English knows the humiliation all too well. Let’s also take into account that mocking the way someone speaks can have racial undertones. It’s degrading at the most and immature humor at the very least. So, let’s start from the top.įirst, take into account that some don’t find it amusing when people try to mock foreign accents.
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Ugandan Knuckles is derived from an Ugandan comedy called “Who Killed Captain Alex?” The movie creator has shown plenty of love to this new meme, even retweeting various defenses of the meme totally not being racist. The latter even went as far as to claim that you’d only find it racist if you already thought less of Ugandans, which is quite the reach. Now, there’s been plenty of defense for this new beloved meme. This has gotten so big that even the creator of The Fairly Odd Parents show has posted a drawing of it and has turned the VRchat into a complete cesspool of trolls. I can name plenty, but we’ll stick with the most recent one: the new viral meme, Ugandan Knuckles.
That’s only one example of the gaming community showing why safe spaces within that community are necessary. I have that same question every time gaming edgelords scream “TRIGGERED” at anybody that displays basic humanity. To who? That still remains to be answered. Safe spaces have come to mean something that pose a threat. When it comes to the term “safe spaces,” it’s not something that has a positive meaning in gaming culture.
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