I’m so sick of people bringing up Leeroy Jenkins without acknowledging that it originates from a stream of racist jokes. Coming from Jason, a professional who is of that era, who does research on the story behind things, there’s just no excuse.
While I think it's important to aknowledge when larger bodies of work have racist authors, so we can engage with the work with due caution, a meme doesn't have enough meat on its bones to be insidiously racist. A meme is so obvious and limited in its meaning that no clarifying context is necessary; if it were racist it would be obviously so to most everyone. If it was originally intended to be racist, it certainly wasn't perceived or meant that way by everyone who propagated it, and it isn't racist out of context, so by reminding people of its racist origins you're merely imbuing it with the very thing you're rightly critical of. In other words, there's no value to be gained from knowing its origins, but it is harmful to imbue eponymous cultural tokens with racist connotations. It makes us liberals look silly and fussy when we make a stink about such obviously harmless and trivial things and then we're taken less seriously when things actually matter.
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I’m so sick of people bringing up Leeroy Jenkins without acknowledging that it originates from a stream of racist jokes. Coming from Jason, a professional who is of that era, who does research on the story behind things, there’s just no excuse.
While I think it's important to aknowledge when larger bodies of work have racist authors, so we can engage with the work with due caution, a meme doesn't have enough meat on its bones to be insidiously racist. A meme is so obvious and limited in its meaning that no clarifying context is necessary; if it were racist it would be obviously so to most everyone. If it was originally intended to be racist, it certainly wasn't perceived or meant that way by everyone who propagated it, and it isn't racist out of context, so by reminding people of its racist origins you're merely imbuing it with the very thing you're rightly critical of. In other words, there's no value to be gained from knowing its origins, but it is harmful to imbue eponymous cultural tokens with racist connotations. It makes us liberals look silly and fussy when we make a stink about such obviously harmless and trivial things and then we're taken less seriously when things actually matter.