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I'm not with you on the memes not educating anyone. I've learned quite a bit from them. Mostly about popular culture that I'm too old for to be aware of, but sometimes actually contemporary things going on in the world of importance that I've somehow completely missed, or just interesting facts. The argument going on about Jeanne d'Arc illustrates the educational value I think. Of course not everyone will look into the backgrounds of a simple picture with some words on them, but some souls are hard to reach/educate in the first place.
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Really?
I think any joke which centres around the colour of someone’s skin is most obviously read as just plain racist.
Memes exist to entertain, not to educate or call anything out. They only people laughing at racism are racists.