The Saddest Rhino posted:

https://twitter.com/anderjak/status/1255618387008344065

Winklebottom posted:

Heath posted:

Isn't the buck-toothed Japanese stereotype supposed to be the author's self-insert? Like what the gently caress breaks a person's mind like that?

Or is the stupider answer that he's actually a racist white guy?

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Reminds me a bit of hoteps, which are another can of worms.

Randaconda posted:

dare i ask

Randaconda posted:

dare i ask

quote:

Hotep logic takes this the-straight-male-is-the-center-of-the-universe way of thinking and adds a dollop of Afrocentricity to it. Ultimately, they don’t want true equality. They want to replace white male patriarchy with black male patriarchy.

Randaconda posted:

dare i ask

dumb. posted:

More here:
https://imgur.com/gallery/aiyzl

Heath posted:

The sheer number of comics this could be referencing is astronomical

PancakeTransmission posted:

I read a lot of webcomics 1998-200? and I don't think I can think of one that this image reminds me of.

Guess that shows how many webcomics there have been over the years.

The Saddest Rhino posted:

https://twitter.com/anderjak/status/1255618387008344065

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

Have a little Lyle, if you want half-white half-asian dealing out stereotypes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vmQOO4WLI4

LifeSunDeath posted:

This is impossible to watch

oscarthewilde posted:

it really really is. when i hear the word 'content creator', i release the safety on my browning

Josef bugman posted:

Older than Boomer, that is a good old fashioned Greatest Generation meme.

Like Kilroy.

Heath posted:

My (limited) understanding of Hoteps is that it refers to black men who adopt a patriarchal sort of half-baked mystical pan-Africanism that mostly involves complaining about women, particularly black women, on Twitter

One More Fat Nerd posted:

Theres also a fair amount of completely fictional history (white people are an artificial species that were made in a lab by an ancient evil black scientist, who was so smart he literally had a giant head). There are also lady hoteps, which leads to wonderful arguments on twitter like "black women only menstruate because they are eating food meant for white people".

Arthur C. Clarke posted:

People of Earth, do not be afraid...

...We come in peace--and why not? For we are your cousins; we have been here before.

You will recognise us when we meet, a few hours from now. We are approaching the solar system almost as swiftly as this radio message. Already, your sun dominates the sky ahead of us. It is the sun our ancestors and yours shared ten million years ago. We are men, as you are; but you have forgotten your history, while we have remembered ours

We colonised Earth, in the reign of the great reptiles, who were dying when we came and whom we could not save. Your world was a tropical planet then, and we felt that it would make a fair home for our people. We were wrong. Though we were masters of space, we knew so little about climate, about evolution, about genetics...

For millions of summers--there were no winters in those ancient days--the colony flourished. Isolated though it had to be, in a universe where the journey from one star to the next takes years, it kept in touch with its parent civilisation. Three or four times in every century, starships would call and bring news of the galaxy.

But two million years ago, Earth began to change. For ages it had been a tropical paradise; then the temperature fell, and the ice began to creep down from the poles. As the climate altered, so did the colonists. We realise now that it was a natural adaptation to the end of the long summer, but those who had made Earth their home for so many generations believed that they had been attacked by a strange and repulsive disease. A disease that did not kill, that did no physical harm--but merely disfigured.

Yet some were immune; the change spared them and their children. And so, within a few thousand years, the colony had split into two separate groups--almost two separate species--suspicious and jealous of each other.

The division brought envy, discord, and, ultimately, conflict. As the colony disintegrated and the climate steadily worsened, those who could do so withdrew from Earth. The rest sank into barbarism.

We could have kept in touch, but there is so much to do in a universe of a hundred trillion stars. Until a few years ago, we did not know that any of you had survived. Then we picked up your first radio signals, learned your simple languages, and discovered that you had made the long climb back from savagery. We come to greet you, our long-lost relatives--and to help you.

We have discovered much in the eons since we abandoned Earth. If you wish us to bring back the eternal summer that ruled before the Ice Ages, we can do so. Above all, we have a simple remedy for the offensive yet harmless genetic plague that afflicted so many of the colonists.

Perhaps it has run its course--but if not, we have good news for you. People of Earth, you can rejoin the society of the universe without shame, without embarrassment.

If any of you are still white, we can cure you.

Beachcomber posted:

One More Fat Nerd posted:

Theres also a fair amount of completely fictional history (white people are an artificial species that were made in a lab by an ancient evil black scientist, who was so smart he literally had a giant head). There are also lady hoteps, which leads to wonderful arguments on twitter like "black women only menstruate because they are eating food meant for white people".

Samovar posted:

Unfortunately, it was popularized by one of the worst of that generation.

The Moon Monster posted:

Arthur C Clarke is right up there with the Penny Arcade guys as one of the webcomic greats.

My Spirit Otter posted:

i normally skip the words in this thread, but this jumped out at me and what??????

quote:

If you wish us to bring back the eternal summer that ruled before the Ice Ages, we can do so.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I'm p sure you're specifically looking at Nation of Islam (basically the black franchise of Scientology) mythology there, though there's probably overlap.

Phlegmish posted:

That's...not bad.

And I like his little toy howitzer that actually fires live ammunition, the PC police wouldn't allow that these days