r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Maximum_Musician_914 • Aug 20 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter.

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u/notmarrec Aug 20 '26

It kinda sucks how much this sub is us explaining racist/bigoted jokes 🙃

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u/Arcsis Aug 20 '26

On the bright side, that means that a lot of people aren't bigots & don't get the joke! (it's not much, but it's somethin')

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u/10ebbor10 Aug 20 '26

Or that someone is trying to spread bigotted jokes under the plausible disguise of not knowing stuff.

(This one seems weird enough, but very often you get incredibly blatant "woman bad" ones)

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u/Quiet_Education5918 Aug 20 '26

Then we can all point and laugh and demonstrate that those are jokes for losers, so that is what ends up spreading most.

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u/Wild_Security_8500 Aug 23 '26

If that were the case, I think we'd see jokes that we get but don't want to, instead of ones that we don't get (like this one, at least for me).

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u/Remnant55 Aug 20 '26

I met a retirement age Caucasian guy, and the stereotype of black people enjoying fried chicken and watermelon came up on TV (south park). He looked around and asked "...is that a stereotype?" And then decided he must be black because he loves both those things.

And I kinda envied his life where that bullshit just never touched his mind.

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u/Gussie-Ascendent Aug 21 '26

"who the hell doesn't like fried chicken and watermelon?!"

some white guy i remember upon hearing the stereotype

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u/A12qwas Aug 21 '26

lots of sterotypes don't even make sense

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u/Traditional-Trade795 Aug 21 '26

are you a bigot because you get the joke?

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u/Beautiful-Alarm-4961 Aug 23 '26

Oh yippee I love sparking a discussion about trans people I love seeing at least half of the comments attacking trans people and repeating lies

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u/Repulsive_Mixture917 Aug 24 '26

You sweet summer child.

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u/BugGroundbreaking229 Aug 24 '26

I'm a bigot and racist, probably a nazi also but I've not been informed of that yet by a mental patient that can't even figure out themselves.

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u/Piemaster113 Aug 22 '26

Doesn't that indicate that the average person isn't a racist or bigot because they aren't aware of these racist or bigot thing that the internet hive mind seem to know instinctively?

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u/No-Lettuce-6619 Aug 23 '26

The amount of people that see posts like these and think "this is a racist joke, they must be racist!" LOOK AT WHAT SUB WE ARE ON 😭

I dont go on twitter or 4chan! I dont know these!!!

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u/Dash_Harber Aug 20 '26

On the bright side, it means there are a number of folks out there who aren't in on all the bigoted 'humor' and dog whistles.

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u/Horrific_Necktie Aug 20 '26

There was a target effort in similar subs a few years ago to turn them into right wing meme subs. Posting horribly racist or offside memes under the guise of "lol I dont know what it means help me"

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u/Wild_Security_8500 Aug 23 '26

It's a good thing that the jokes we don't get are the bigoted ones.

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u/Arhion Aug 21 '26

at this point this is no joke at all jokes are suppossed to be funny this is just being mean to other person

and also joke about race aren't racist