the image is based on noticing these people’s skin color in the first place, and making a joke out of them;
the analogy with the Rubik’s Cube means that there is something to “solve” there;
the last click in the Rubik’s Cube is a “perfect” state.
So this image, due to people’s skin color, is one step away from a perfect state, where white people are with white people, black people with black people, etc… and should be “solved”?
Mostly because it’s a meme, a.k.a. dumb humor. Memes generally don’t require intricate thought. And they are frequently on the level of “haha, funny coincidence”.
Like, yeah, some people will read it the way that you did, but it’s not like anyone will get convinced of skin color segregation from this meme. And while I don’t exactly find the thought pleasant of some greasy racist feeling reassured by this shitty meme, it doesn’t take the “haha, funny coincidence” away from me.
@Ephera@JoeBidet This is very interesting: my reading contained none of those you listed, and in fact reading them seems very absurd and artificial.
- the image is based on noticing these people’s skin color in the first place, and making a joke out of them;
To me it was a joke about the skin colors, not about the people.
- the analogy with the Rubik’s Cube means that there is something to “solve” there;
I can’t even…
- the last click in the Rubik’s Cube is a “perfect” state.
Yes, matching the patterns. I can’t even see how it isn’t obvious, like looking at a two triangles, cubes and rabbits and seeing matching rabbit-to-rabbit and triangle-to-triangle as “perfect state”.
But maybe the solution is simpler: you don’t understand jokes. 😀
You seem to try to “explain” it and see “hidden content” in it, while it is, simply, a joke. With no such hidden or elusive meanings. Triangle-to-triangle, and recognising that every kind has its pair and it is “almost” “perfectly matched”. That was a joke, and this all debate feels like when I was in school and the literature teacher wanted us to tell him that the poet wanted to say with the poem what he say he wanted. And I never have accepted that, and once I told him absolutely different things, and he got very angry and wanted to give me an “F” (or number 1 here around) and I told him (quite impolitely) that if he does that I will go to the director and request that he PROVE that the poet wanted to say THAT with the poem. I got nothing, was sent back to sit down (and I wasn’t his favourite pupil anyway).
I born to be Politically Incorrect. And I still believe I’m a good person. 😉 Just really really hard to handle. :-]
Well …
So this image, due to people’s skin color, is one step away from a perfect state, where white people are with white people, black people with black people, etc… and should be “solved”?
How can this be read otherwise? (honest question)
Mostly because it’s a meme, a.k.a. dumb humor. Memes generally don’t require intricate thought. And they are frequently on the level of “haha, funny coincidence”.
Like, yeah, some people will read it the way that you did, but it’s not like anyone will get convinced of skin color segregation from this meme. And while I don’t exactly find the thought pleasant of some greasy racist feeling reassured by this shitty meme, it doesn’t take the “haha, funny coincidence” away from me.
@Ephera @JoeBidet This is very interesting: my reading contained none of those you listed, and in fact reading them seems very absurd and artificial.
To me it was a joke about the skin colors, not about the people.
I can’t even…
Yes, matching the patterns. I can’t even see how it isn’t obvious, like looking at a two triangles, cubes and rabbits and seeing matching rabbit-to-rabbit and triangle-to-triangle as “perfect state”.
But maybe the solution is simpler: you don’t understand jokes. 😀
You seem to try to “explain” it and see “hidden content” in it, while it is, simply, a joke. With no such hidden or elusive meanings. Triangle-to-triangle, and recognising that every kind has its pair and it is “almost” “perfectly matched”. That was a joke, and this all debate feels like when I was in school and the literature teacher wanted us to tell him that the poet wanted to say with the poem what he say he wanted. And I never have accepted that, and once I told him absolutely different things, and he got very angry and wanted to give me an “F” (or number 1 here around) and I told him (quite impolitely) that if he does that I will go to the director and request that he PROVE that the poet wanted to say THAT with the poem. I got nothing, was sent back to sit down (and I wasn’t his favourite pupil anyway).
I born to be Politically Incorrect. And I still believe I’m a good person. 😉 Just really really hard to handle. :-]