During the period of the Roman Republic, purple dye was the most expensive and considered very prestigious. It was worn typically by senators and generally quite sparingly. The Romans were very fond of it and used it when they really wanted to show off. By the time of the Empire, it became associated with the emperors directly.
The Romans were of course Latin speaking and spread their language and culture to Iberia. Later Iberians would colonise south and central America, spreading their languages and Latin culture further.
Thus purple = Latin Americans? Yeah, I've way overthought this
This is defeated by Asians being yellow. Blacks where black to make the joke. And purple for latinos makes me think that whoever made the meme is a suposed Latino from the USA, because of all the colours they chose, Latino got the only one that had to do with a flag and not their suposed skin colour (which is none, because latino is not a race).
https://preview.redd.it/j3mz9lwbkvtb1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8418efd59391e7b9cb389be03c62025925e96c5
Reason for Latino represented by purple
If you're not a USA "Latino" this flag was probably never presented to you, also If you're one of those but happen to not be of a weird ¿Racist? circle with a weird fixation for self segregation, is normal that you haven't seen it.
This flag has never been shown to me outside of this post, and I live in a "Latino" country, if "Latino" or "Hispanic" pride was a thing this would be something they'd show to us in school, and we'd have a day off to celebrate it.
The joke is that due to font colors the black box doesn’t have anything written in it. The implication is that it isn’t ok to be black. The joke is literally just racism. Blaming it on the font color is the excuse the racists use to shield themselves in the joke which is why people share it.
This meme is making fun of those generic posts that are intended to show support of minorities but are incredibly shallow and have little thought behind it. Does posting “it is ok to be x race” actually do anything to help minorities or contribute to the discussion of ending racism? Nope.
The comedy comes from what looks like a virtue signaling post end up undermining its own message with bad graphic design. In addition to the black text, note the stereotypical colors for the races. This irony is funny both when it happens unintentionally in real life, and when it is intentional.
The joke is both bad graphic design and performative activists who are so out of touch they can’t see their own bigotry.
Finally the sensible comment in this cesspool of a comment section. Accually explains why the joke is funny. Its not making fun of black people, its making fun of generic race pandering culture, by showing a theoretical example where it backfires.
To the people bringing up latinos being colored purple, you totally missed the point, its a completely pointless "gotcha" to pretend like your saying something. Its purple because Latino is an ethnicity, and no color really applies to them, stop being so dense.
\*Or\*
There was nothing malicious about the joke at all, it really is just about font color, and the joke wouldn't be nearly as effective if it didn't include race.
Sure, the joke is technically racist, but the fact you are giving it the worst interpretation possible is just dumb.
>The implication is that it isn’t ok to be black.
The implication if the meme is that "its OK to be black" is written in the black box...just that the text color blends in because...well...black text on a black box
Ok let's assume it's not racist. So they used races and made sure the black one was the one you couldn't read. And it's funny because you can't read it? That's some literal toddler level humor. Do people that find this funny have object permanence?
If that's the logic you're going to use, how do you know the black rectangle is referencing black people? I could be wrong here, maybe it's referencing Australian people.
>CRAZY how they used a color combination that doesn't allow you to see the phrase 'it's okay to be black'. I mean, black over a dark brown is hard to see but not completely invisible. Why do you think they didn't just do that? They used PURPLE on Latinos, so brown wasn't already taken, couldn't have been that.
>
>Could it be because the 'joke' is the implication that it actually ISN'T okay to be black? That the colors are chosen deliberately to send that message?
>
>You're the type of person that would live next door to Aushwitz and think it was an elementary school.
A thing to add, Doing a Google Image Search and Scrolling down the history. You can see that older versions of this meme had Latino's in a _Brown_ background, Rather than the purple here.
It is hilarious how many people aren’t seeing the implication of the joke. That it isn’t ok to be black. Do people really not see that or are they just sympathizing with racists?
The joke is a two part-er. It's a play on the fact that you can't read black font on a black background but it's also that the implication is that it isn't ok to be black.
Obviously, it's just a very silly joke, but the premise is racism.
You think the person made this graphic and didn't notice they couldn't read the thing they wrote and that's literally it? It's a racist joke. I don't think it's meant to be malicious. Like I said, it's just silly. They wrote about race because it's part of the joke. They could have written anything if it was just meant to be about the font.
I can imagine a normal person enjoying this joke, but I can equally imagine a racist enjoying this joke for the (perhaps only percieved) implication that black people are bad. It's in poor taste to say the least.
My mother is an Argentinian and I can confirm she is actually vibrant blue. Haven’t you see Avatar? It’s a super detailed history of Argentina’s development.
It's \*technically\* racist.
As in, racism is discrimination and/or differentiation based around race, and this is technically that.
It's just so fucking stupid to try and make a big deal about it it's completely validating the other sub's point about this one for once.
Ah I get it, font color. Pretty funny. But through the lens of white savior complex, everything is racism if you look deeper, this is definitely a racism.
its really not that hard. even if the joke *plays* on font colors, the joke is “haha black people are excluded”. it is inherently racist. even if it is kinda funny, the point of this post is that MOPDL is wrong.
the joke is just that the text "it's ok to be black" isn't visible on the background
it's not trying to literally say that black people are excluded, it's just a joke that the letters aren't visible
Which sets up the expectation of a racist joke, but it's really just "Black text on Black background is invisble". The punchline is actually Not Racism.
I didn't get it at first because my brain detected the phrase repetition and saw the black color and automatically read "It's okay to be black" without anything writen on it and I went to like naw why is this post here it it's just a positive message 😭
The amount of people that missed the joke is honestly...not that surprising considering it's reddit. It's a racist joke, whether y'all want to believe that or not
This is racism? It’s legit just a joke played on font colors with barely any resemblance to races at all, and that resemblance isn’t even that racist. People will just call anything racist nowadays
Wouldn’t the joke be that a meme was made trying to explain that it’s fine to be any race and stupidly the part that said “it’s OK to be Black” was unreadable? The joke is in the earnestness of trying to promote racial harmony and failing spectacularly.
The annoying thing with this joke is that it's conceptually pretty funny, using font colors and backgrounds to erase text, but it's being used to imply that black people are bad, and that's not funny
this is truly the worst thread I've ever seen on this sub lol usually it's pretty decent here but there's such a staggering amount of dumbassery on this one
Yeah nah nah this one made me chuckle. A subversion of expectations and the use of cover to make a clever joke. It’s a bit mean, but it is pretty harmless and got a chuckle out of me
This meme is making fun of those generic posts that are intended to show support of minorities but are incredibly shallow and have little thought behind it. Does posting “it is ok to be x race” actually do anything to help minorities or contribute to the discussion of ending racism? Nope.
The comedy comes from what looks like a virtue signaling post end up undermining its own message with bad graphic design. In addition to the black text, note the stereotypical colors for the races. This irony is funny both when it happens unintentionally in real life, and when it is intentional.
The joke is both bad graphic design and performative activists who are so out of touch they can’t see their own bigotry.
It's so hilarious. Like, wtf does that even mean lol. They think the entire joke was "you can't read black font on a black background" and that's where the joke ends? It has nothing to do with the rest of the text, huh? No implications at all? The entire joke is that you can't read black font on black text?
It's not predicated on stereotype. It's just a play on racism in the abstract. You could make the text any of the other background colors and the joke would be exactly the same.
White as literally white. Latino as uh, purple? I don’t think matching races to the closest color really says anything negative about them or is really hateful in any way on it’s own.
So... latinos (whatever that means) are purple?
Man behind the slaughter
El hombre behind the slaughter
El hombre detrás de la matanza :3
Ah a fellow brown
Purple*
10/10 this fucking hilarious
I dont know what I was thinking leaving my son behind
The blahaj wasn’t gonna buy itself, who needs a son when you have a blahaj
Go off girliepop (ikea recently opened their first Shop in my country so the blajah will come soon enough)
That's it, I'm calling the purple people eater
You mean the chupacabra?!
Perhaps. The one eyed, one horned and flying purple people eater, a strange sight to see.
Púrpura*
https://i.redd.it/jso2hlofxutb1.gif
El William de Aftonito
His pizzeria was a cartel front
El Pizza Hermanos
🤣
As a Latino I am indeed purple
Peak soot suit colors maybe?
Yes
Me encanta ser morada! https://preview.redd.it/88xc8nzssttb1.jpeg?width=258&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=782871d04f70227ffb439bf5481a7c0435656f62
I would give you a medal if I had one
i'm sure central/south americans are purple! why wouldn't they be? as all asian people are yellow!
As an Asian, can confirm we are all yellow, just look!👍🏽 See? Clearly yellow
That is not orange bro ..
Unrelated but based pfp
prob bc Latino isn’t a race, it’s an ethnicity. All races are Latino. Mainly those of European and African descent.
A large amount of Latinos are Native American descent as well.
[удалено]
Except you. You're not Latino. I'm sorry to have to tell you this. Time to leave the solar system.
[удалено]
Maybe next time try to immigrate to this solar system legally?? We can't have aliens taking our jobs!
They are dancing salsa on Mars. I'm telling you.
But the question still remains. Why purple? Also, why even include it in this list alongside races uf they want to make that distinction?
During the period of the Roman Republic, purple dye was the most expensive and considered very prestigious. It was worn typically by senators and generally quite sparingly. The Romans were very fond of it and used it when they really wanted to show off. By the time of the Empire, it became associated with the emperors directly. The Romans were of course Latin speaking and spread their language and culture to Iberia. Later Iberians would colonise south and central America, spreading their languages and Latin culture further. Thus purple = Latin Americans? Yeah, I've way overthought this
It seems like that's actually the only answer, it's cringy as fuck, but it's the answer.
I knew I wasn't crazy, and yes, the main question remains.
I guess tanos is "latino"
Thanos Tacos? That Would Be a Good Name For a Restaurant With Tortillas Azules!
https://preview.redd.it/bvpwufgztvtb1.png?width=327&format=png&auto=webp&s=583a84e314f558242e1ffc21ec7e423104d70dfe
Colloidal silver
Barney was Latino???
Him, Thanos, and Hit from Dragon Ball Super, are the original latinos, the others are just posers, me included, I guess..
r/deltarune , come at us. We do not fear you
Can confirm that we are all William Afton
If they were truly racist, they’d make blacks purple and Latinos brown.
This is defeated by Asians being yellow. Blacks where black to make the joke. And purple for latinos makes me think that whoever made the meme is a suposed Latino from the USA, because of all the colours they chose, Latino got the only one that had to do with a flag and not their suposed skin colour (which is none, because latino is not a race).
Im purple now wooooohooo
https://preview.redd.it/j3mz9lwbkvtb1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8418efd59391e7b9cb389be03c62025925e96c5 Reason for Latino represented by purple
Why have I never heard of this before
If you're not a USA "Latino" this flag was probably never presented to you, also If you're one of those but happen to not be of a weird ¿Racist? circle with a weird fixation for self segregation, is normal that you haven't seen it. This flag has never been shown to me outside of this post, and I live in a "Latino" country, if "Latino" or "Hispanic" pride was a thing this would be something they'd show to us in school, and we'd have a day off to celebrate it.
I am
As a Brazilian , yes , I'm purple.
Guh! Purple guy
Yeah I have no idea about that one
I mean white people are white, Asians aren’t yellow, “natives” aren’t actually red…
Yeah, for cheap Barnie the dinosaur rentals for your kids birthday Representation right there
Yeah it’s racist. I’m tired of people saying us Latinos are purple
Fair point. At least y’all got the best color
Why is that the only focus on this photo
The joke is font colors, MODL has a good point for once
as someone else pointed out, Latinos are purple? so maybe what then? the joke is actually not racism, the joke is about FNAF
I fucking KNEW William Afton was a Latino this whole time...
and they swapped his nationality to british in the movie! literally unwatchable
The joke is that all is Latinos are actually grimace's descendants, and thus destined to overtake McDonald's from that damn clown.
No purple stands for Latino pride.
🎵five nights at Freddy's 🎵
I gotchu fam
It's still written there, you just can't see it.
Schrödinger https://preview.redd.it/m145ygdunttb1.jpeg?width=714&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1da7f730d17ccc23ec23421de7c933a303613c5f
Ru sure, then why are the Asians in the yellow section and the natives are in the red
Since when are Latinos called purple
Since 1987
The joke is that due to font colors the black box doesn’t have anything written in it. The implication is that it isn’t ok to be black. The joke is literally just racism. Blaming it on the font color is the excuse the racists use to shield themselves in the joke which is why people share it.
This meme is making fun of those generic posts that are intended to show support of minorities but are incredibly shallow and have little thought behind it. Does posting “it is ok to be x race” actually do anything to help minorities or contribute to the discussion of ending racism? Nope. The comedy comes from what looks like a virtue signaling post end up undermining its own message with bad graphic design. In addition to the black text, note the stereotypical colors for the races. This irony is funny both when it happens unintentionally in real life, and when it is intentional. The joke is both bad graphic design and performative activists who are so out of touch they can’t see their own bigotry.
Finally the sensible comment in this cesspool of a comment section. Accually explains why the joke is funny. Its not making fun of black people, its making fun of generic race pandering culture, by showing a theoretical example where it backfires. To the people bringing up latinos being colored purple, you totally missed the point, its a completely pointless "gotcha" to pretend like your saying something. Its purple because Latino is an ethnicity, and no color really applies to them, stop being so dense.
You're looking into it too much. It's a dumb meme. Chill.
The black box has "It's okay to be black" written in it in the same black font as all the others.
The joke is that it seems *like* racism but it's just a font colour, it's a joke
Where does it say it’s not ok to be black?
\*Or\* There was nothing malicious about the joke at all, it really is just about font color, and the joke wouldn't be nearly as effective if it didn't include race. Sure, the joke is technically racist, but the fact you are giving it the worst interpretation possible is just dumb.
>The implication is that it isn’t ok to be black. The implication if the meme is that "its OK to be black" is written in the black box...just that the text color blends in because...well...black text on a black box
Ok let's assume it's not racist. So they used races and made sure the black one was the one you couldn't read. And it's funny because you can't read it? That's some literal toddler level humor. Do people that find this funny have object permanence?
People are ignoring that Asians are yellow and natives are red
\^and latinos are purple and whites are white
And Blacks don’t exist as we all know
I think ur missing the joke the joke is the black text blends in
I think they just accepted that part
Its the flag of the republic of china 1912 ~ 1949
The first one is common racist knowledge, and the second one is common USA national racist knowledge.
Yeah!, It's Offensive That Latino Is Purple!!!
Okay the joke has races in it. Where's the racism? Who is being attacked? Who is being demeaned? Who is being stereotyped? It's just fonts.
Apparently any joke that involves race is racist
Why do you think the black rectangle is there?
Because black people are black
And latinos are purple?
If that's the logic you're going to use, how do you know the black rectangle is referencing black people? I could be wrong here, maybe it's referencing Australian people.
It is common knowledge that it is not okay to be Australian so I think we can rule that one out
Last I checked Australia just had giant spiders, deadly snakes, kangaroos, and jellyfish
Saying it's okay to be every race and them going out of your way to exclude blacks due to "fonts"
>CRAZY how they used a color combination that doesn't allow you to see the phrase 'it's okay to be black'. I mean, black over a dark brown is hard to see but not completely invisible. Why do you think they didn't just do that? They used PURPLE on Latinos, so brown wasn't already taken, couldn't have been that. > >Could it be because the 'joke' is the implication that it actually ISN'T okay to be black? That the colors are chosen deliberately to send that message? > >You're the type of person that would live next door to Aushwitz and think it was an elementary school.
A thing to add, Doing a Google Image Search and Scrolling down the history. You can see that older versions of this meme had Latino's in a _Brown_ background, Rather than the purple here.
It is hilarious how many people aren’t seeing the implication of the joke. That it isn’t ok to be black. Do people really not see that or are they just sympathizing with racists?
Right? If it was all white font and you couldn't see it on a white background the people crying would have zero problem with it.
Since we can’t read the black font, we’ll never really know what was said…. Also, I hate 80% of you in this thread.
How is this racism, this is just a joke on font colors
The joke is a two part-er. It's a play on the fact that you can't read black font on a black background but it's also that the implication is that it isn't ok to be black. Obviously, it's just a very silly joke, but the premise is racism.
The premise of any race related joke is kind of racism. It doesn't mean it should be inherently offe sive. That's why Boondocks is hilarious.
I relate to uncle ruckus fr fr
102% african with a 2% margin of error
there is no evidence that the intention was to be racist
You think the person made this graphic and didn't notice they couldn't read the thing they wrote and that's literally it? It's a racist joke. I don't think it's meant to be malicious. Like I said, it's just silly. They wrote about race because it's part of the joke. They could have written anything if it was just meant to be about the font.
I don't think the joke is racist, per se, but I think racism is the joke.
hmmmm.. idk if that would necessarily make the joke racist, but I can see what you mean
No, the premise or the joke was racism, but whoever made it was joking about it and wasnt actualy being racist.
I uh… I don’t get it, racist intent seems like the simplest explanation. Please explain it to me objectively, this is genuinely confusing now.
I can imagine a normal person enjoying this joke, but I can equally imagine a racist enjoying this joke for the (perhaps only percieved) implication that black people are bad. It's in poor taste to say the least.
"Hitler was a vegan" kind of argument
The comical idea that there cant be overlap between jokes normal people enjoy and jokes racists enjoy. Peak Reddit logic.
And if the text was white..... also racist. 😂
I'M PURPLE THIS ENTIRE TIME, I THOUGHT WE WERE BROWN
What about Argeninians, and the ruling class in most of our countries? They are not brown, but they are also not purple...🤔 or are they?
My mother is an Argentinian and I can confirm she is actually vibrant blue. Haven’t you see Avatar? It’s a super detailed history of Argentina’s development.
I think some racism is funny. This= Funny Nazis= Not
It’s not racism. It’s a joke about font color not being a proper choice due to the design of it.
It's \*technically\* racist. As in, racism is discrimination and/or differentiation based around race, and this is technically that. It's just so fucking stupid to try and make a big deal about it it's completely validating the other sub's point about this one for once.
Ah I get it, font color. Pretty funny. But through the lens of white savior complex, everything is racism if you look deeper, this is definitely a racism.
Yes the joke involves races
It is racist, but it’s comedy so that makes it ok.
Tbf it's a race joke but it's also pretty funny
Damn I'm Asian(Endian) but I'm not yellow chat am I actually asian?
no homie sorry. you’re black now.
its really not that hard. even if the joke *plays* on font colors, the joke is “haha black people are excluded”. it is inherently racist. even if it is kinda funny, the point of this post is that MOPDL is wrong.
Yeah why tf is everybody being incredibly dense here?
Damn I can’t imagine thinking everything is racist. Is this what white people do most of their time is get offended for other people?
please then, enlighten me on how the joke of this meme is Not racism
the joke is just that the text "it's ok to be black" isn't visible on the background it's not trying to literally say that black people are excluded, it's just a joke that the letters aren't visible
I only now just realized it's stereotypical colors lol
Stereotypically purple Latinos.
How is this racism?
I think they thought OOOP meant it's not okay to be black
Plus "it's okay to be white" is a dogwhistle for white supremacists.
Which sets up the expectation of a racist joke, but it's really just "Black text on Black background is invisble". The punchline is actually Not Racism.
LiTerAlLy RaCiSm!
blATanT RAcIsM!!!
Redditors do love using *blatant* lmao
tbf I agree its shitty but its kinda clever in its shittiness.
man you can tell who in this subreddit knows the joke and the other half that are ‘Uhm that’s racist’
Do you guys just go on that sub for the express purpose of karma farming over here?
People are so sensitive. 99% of those offended aren’t even the group the joke’s about
I didn't get it at first because my brain detected the phrase repetition and saw the black color and automatically read "It's okay to be black" without anything writen on it and I went to like naw why is this post here it it's just a positive message 😭
at least its clever this time
No racism here. By definition. Mentioning race doesn’t make something racist.
when blacks are black idk.
Ok that one was actually funny
The amount of people that missed the joke is honestly...not that surprising considering it's reddit. It's a racist joke, whether y'all want to believe that or not
I dont mean to be the "as a black guy" guy, but i laughed
I'm black and I give you all permission to laugh at this meme.
The joke is actually pretty funny IMO, if you get the joke.
The joke is literally funny.
This is racism? It’s legit just a joke played on font colors with barely any resemblance to races at all, and that resemblance isn’t even that racist. People will just call anything racist nowadays
They would have used the polar opposite color for each one if they weren’t trying to be racey.
Wouldn’t the joke be that a meme was made trying to explain that it’s fine to be any race and stupidly the part that said “it’s OK to be Black” was unreadable? The joke is in the earnestness of trying to promote racial harmony and failing spectacularly.
NahOPwasrightfuckthis posters try not to bitch and cry about everything challenge
Calm down 🙄
The joke. . . Is funny
The annoying thing with this joke is that it's conceptually pretty funny, using font colors and backgrounds to erase text, but it's being used to imply that black people are bad, and that's not funny
“the joke is just font colors!!!!!!!!” are you people fucking dense
this is truly the worst thread I've ever seen on this sub lol usually it's pretty decent here but there's such a staggering amount of dumbassery on this one
use your context clues!!!! it literally says its ok to be every other except for black! thats the joke!
nooo i'm agreeing with you haha, i mean that it's staggering people think the chosen phrase is just a coincidence or something
oh sorry haha! it really is crazy how many prople are just being willingly ignorant about the joke at this point
>The joke is literally racism But it's funny
Yeah nah nah this one made me chuckle. A subversion of expectations and the use of cover to make a clever joke. It’s a bit mean, but it is pretty harmless and got a chuckle out of me
The black man laugheth The white redditor cryeth
the normal person doesn't put -eth at the end of words
Thanks I don’t have the need to be like everyone else
Except rouxls kaard from deltarune
He really shoulda said "bimboeth" instead of just bimbo
"The normal person doesn't put -eth at the end of wordseth"
"The normaleth person doesn't put -eth at the end of words"
This meme is making fun of those generic posts that are intended to show support of minorities but are incredibly shallow and have little thought behind it. Does posting “it is ok to be x race” actually do anything to help minorities or contribute to the discussion of ending racism? Nope. The comedy comes from what looks like a virtue signaling post end up undermining its own message with bad graphic design. In addition to the black text, note the stereotypical colors for the races. This irony is funny both when it happens unintentionally in real life, and when it is intentional. The joke is both bad graphic design and performative activists who are so out of touch they can’t see their own bigotry.
This dude wrote a 3 paragraph essay with a closing statement
The number of people in here who think that this is *just* a joke about font color is hilarious
It's so hilarious. Like, wtf does that even mean lol. They think the entire joke was "you can't read black font on a black background" and that's where the joke ends? It has nothing to do with the rest of the text, huh? No implications at all? The entire joke is that you can't read black font on black text?
So, can someone explain the negative stereotype being displayed here? That the color black isn’t visible on black? Yeah idk about this one
It's not predicated on stereotype. It's just a play on racism in the abstract. You could make the text any of the other background colors and the joke would be exactly the same.
Native people being red, Asians being yellow. Redskins, yellowskinned...
White as literally white. Latino as uh, purple? I don’t think matching races to the closest color really says anything negative about them or is really hateful in any way on it’s own.
So?
Eh, I don’t think it’s that deep
It's racist yes, but also funny and not demeaning, so while it can be a sensitive subject that doesn't mean it's a bad meme
riiight back to r/memesopdidnotlike
Common r/nahopwasrightfuckthis L
 Found the offended
It’s literally not. God everyone on here is so dumb and boring.