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>'Ugandan Knuckles is also the product of centuries’ worth of colonial and white supremacist knowledge'
>'Regardless of users’ intent or whether they identify as ‘apolitical’, participants have entered a reciprocal relationship with an objectively political collective avatar'
>'Playful and/or ignorant embodiment of the Ugandan Knuckles became part of a formative process of self-hood that is unavoidably politicized and racially harmful'
Blah blah, everything is racist but what is their intent this time?
>'The collective avatar thus allows us to call out intent-ambiguous meme practice as part of a politicizing, racism-producing process that moves from mobilization towards recruitment'
Ah there it is. The creation of a new boogyman. The Ugandan Knuckles to White supremacist pipeline. Justification to stamp down on similar behaviour.