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I don't understand this trending meme but it sounds very racist. Perhaps (Original Post) Maraya1969 Jan 2022 OP
It isn't. mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2022 #1
Do you happen to know what it means??? Maraya1969 Jan 2022 #2
Yes. mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2022 #4
If you look at the tweet in Twitter, it gives you an option to translate it, using Google muriel_volestrangler Jan 2022 #6
yes EX500rider Jan 2022 #8
Dark humor...the Addams Family is considered dark humor. LeftInTX Jan 2022 #17
If you don't understand it, why do your think it's racist? n/t leftstreet Jan 2022 #3
I'm guessing the hashtag ? MichMan Jan 2022 #5
I don't speak Portuguese, or know that culture well at all. I'd double check for clarification irisblue Jan 2022 #10
It's Spanish LeftInTX Jan 2022 #18
Thx. My google translate gave me Portuguese. irisblue Jan 2022 #22
Rough translation: I wish you as much happiness as you claim you have, on social media Siwsan Jan 2022 #7
Google translation EYESORE 9001 Jan 2022 #9
In addition to translating the tweet and hastag, perhaps try understanding the image used... RockRaven Jan 2022 #11
What about this tweet makes you think there is anything racist going on? PTWB Jan 2022 #12
Probably the #HumorNegro hashtag Rstrstx Jan 2022 #13
I agree. In Spanish or Portugese "negro" means the color black. Of course it depends abqtommy Jan 2022 #14
Good thing it wasn't in Latin... Klaralven Jan 2022 #15
Oh gosh, there was once a tropical wave that was forming off that country LeftInTX Jan 2022 #21
Can ethnic slurs Busterscruggs Jan 2022 #16
Every language is a repository of slurs. I know a website that presents many of these abqtommy Jan 2022 #19
Yes, but "negro" in Spanish isn't a slur. It's a color. LeftInTX Jan 2022 #20

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,439 posts)
1. It isn't.
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 08:24 PM
Jan 2022
Black comedy



"Hopscotch to oblivion", Barcelona, Spain

Black comedy, also known as black humor, dark humor, dark comedy, morbid humor, or gallows humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss. Writers and comedians often use it as a tool for exploring vulgar issues by provoking discomfort, serious thought, and amusement for their audience. Thus, in fiction, for example, the term black comedy can also refer to a genre in which dark humor is a core component. Popular themes of the genre include death, crime, poverty, suicide, war, violence, terrorism, discrimination, disease, racism, sexism, and human sexuality.

Black comedy differs from both blue comedy—which focuses more on crude topics such as nudity, sex, and bodily fluids—and from straightforward obscenity. Whereas the term black comedy is a relatively broad term covering humor relating to many serious subjects, gallows humor tends to be used more specifically in relation to death, or situations that are reminiscent of dying. Black humor can occasionally be related to the grotesque genre. Literary critics have associated black comedy and black humor with authors as early as the ancient Greeks with Aristophanes.

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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,439 posts)
4. Yes.
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 08:27 PM
Jan 2022

I edited my first post on the fly.

This should help:

https://www.google.com/search?q=black+humor

Did you happen to notice that the hashtags were bilingual, Spanish and English?

{edited} Oh, you mean, what does the tweet mean? A few other people have already supplied that answer.

Happy New Year.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,315 posts)
6. If you look at the tweet in Twitter, it gives you an option to translate it, using Google
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 08:29 PM
Jan 2022

This yields "For this Year 2022 I wish you all the happiness that you say you have on your Social Networks ... Cheers!"

EX500rider

(10,847 posts)
8. yes
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 08:30 PM
Jan 2022
For this Year 2022 I wish you all the happiness that you say you have on your Social Networks ... Cheers!

Siwsan

(26,262 posts)
7. Rough translation: I wish you as much happiness as you claim you have, on social media
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 08:30 PM
Jan 2022

More snark humor than dark humor, IMHO.

EYESORE 9001

(25,938 posts)
9. Google translation
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 08:30 PM
Jan 2022
For this Year 2022 I wish you all the happiness you say you have in your Social Networks... Health!


The hashtag means ‘dark humor.’

RockRaven

(14,966 posts)
11. In addition to translating the tweet and hastag, perhaps try understanding the image used...
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 08:38 PM
Jan 2022

Which is Wednesday Addams, specifically as played by Christina Ricci. Consider the character/personality and how that relates to the text of the tweet.

 

PTWB

(4,131 posts)
12. What about this tweet makes you think there is anything racist going on?
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 08:39 PM
Jan 2022

I can’t see anything in any word of the tweet that gives me that impression. What are you seeing that I’m not?

Rstrstx

(1,399 posts)
13. Probably the #HumorNegro hashtag
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 08:44 PM
Jan 2022

In English that would be an inappropriate hashtag, in Spanish it’s entirely innocent

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
14. I agree. In Spanish or Portugese "negro" means the color black. Of course it depends
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 08:54 PM
Jan 2022

on context and who's using it but I don't think it's used in the hashtag here as a racist or
ethnic slur at all.

LeftInTX

(25,316 posts)
21. Oh gosh, there was once a tropical wave that was forming off that country
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 11:54 PM
Jan 2022

I was posting about it on Weather Underground...stupid thing wouldn't let me...it thought it was the N word...

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
19. Every language is a repository of slurs. I know a website that presents many of these
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 11:49 PM
Jan 2022

but I won't provide a link. There's a lotta hate in the world and languages to match.

LeftInTX

(25,316 posts)
20. Yes, but "negro" in Spanish isn't a slur. It's a color.
Sat Jan 1, 2022, 11:51 PM
Jan 2022

negro - black.
marrón / café - brown.
gris - gray / grey.
blanco - white.
amarillo - yellow.
anaranjado / naranjo - orange.
rojo - red.
rosado - pink.

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