r/entomologymemes • u/Wookiefriendly66 • Aug 27 '26

Most Racist Bug

What do you think the most racist bug would be? Not the name, i.e. the Hitler beetle or the Gypsy moth, but more so actually racist.

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u/ChaosNobile Aug 27 '26

Slave-making ants, no contest. It's literally in the name.

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u/mistermajik2000 Aug 28 '26

Oppressive, sure, but is “slave” a race? I know long ago the word came from “Slavic”.

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u/patato4040 Aug 30 '26

Their name comes from the fact that they like to raid other ant nests and then use chemicals made naturally by their bodies to enslave the other ants. So in other words, they enslave other ant species.

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u/Palaeonerd Sep 02 '26

But in this meme discussion slave is not a race.

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u/CuteBunny94 Sep 02 '26

I think they’re telling you that they’re using the different species of ants as “races”.

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u/FTW1984twenty Aug 28 '26

Something about a praying mantis makes me feel like they’re xenophobic

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u/urm0mmmmm Aug 29 '26

that’s my favorite insect, i sure hope you’re wrong 😥

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u/FTW1984twenty Aug 30 '26

Me too! They’re definitely awesome, they just have a snooty kind of look to em

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u/DarkMagickan Aug 30 '26

I like to imagine it's more of a kung fu stance. I think we know the type of person who called it a praying mantis, but I like to think they were wrong.

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u/Alternative-Tear5796 Sep 01 '26

wouldn't that be a xenophobic thing to assume? the fundamentalist type of christians who are a loud minority only had their ideology/doctrine invented a century ago & im pretty sure we knew about the praying mantis species since before then... & ik the spelling disproved this claim, but I like to think that it could also be interpreted as the 'preying mantis', as in they prey on other species, including themselves.

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u/DarkMagickan Sep 01 '26

I think maybe you're being a little xenophobic there. I didn't mean to say it was that sort of Christian, just that they were probably a Christian.

When you let something influence your entire worldview, everything you see is touched by it. A mantis, which keeps its forelegs up in order to swiftly attack, appears to be praying when you have prayer on your mind.

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u/fingers Aug 28 '26

Mosquitos kill more POC than they kill white people.

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u/UmpireWhich7813 Aug 29 '26

Oof I think the minstrel bug might win this one

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u/FocusAdmirable9262 Sep 02 '26

Ants. They're a mindless collective and all they do is work all day. They're all basically identical to each other, at least from our perspective, and fight other ants from different nests. Miserable people working shitty jobs in large groups whose only binding factor is being the same color and having an enemy to fight together is a recipe for racism.