It’s called humor, look into it.
Via Campus Reform:
A joke about pollen allergies is racist if it plays off the Black Lives Matter mantra, “I can’t breathe.”
At least, that’s what University of Pennsylvania sophomore Noah Baron learned on May 2 when he pulled up the Penn meme page on Facebook and decided to post a meme featuring Black Lives Matter protesters.
The response “was super rapid, I just got bombarded,” Baron told The Statesman. Commenters described the meme variably as “racist,” “bullshit,” “in poor taste,” or “normalizing police brutality.” The barrage continued after Baron edited his post to reflect that he is an avid BLM supporter. The edit, Baron said, “Backfired and made people [angrier].”
The slew of comments came so fast that Baron’s post took the Facebook equivalent of getting ratioed, receiving more comments than likes, within minutes.
“I’d say it was a lot of people tagging their friends and almost laughing out loud, like how could this guy be so insensitive,” Baron wrote in a statement to The Statesman.
Baron defended his post with a reference to Larry David’s SNL monologue last year; David took heat for joking about picking up women at concentration camps. Commenters gave Baron permission to defend David’s joke since Baron is Jewish, but drew the line at race: “As far as I can tell, you’re not black.”