I’ve never heard that sort of racism, that black people are cannibals, so i think that’s pretty outdated racism even by racist standards.

I had a friend’s kid try that crap on me recently, though. Made a racist joke off the back of my offhand and entirely innocent comment about monkeys, and I called his ass out for being a racist piece of shit about it. His parents were unbelieveably thankful that I did because the kid actually likes me, so maybe it helped. But thats so much to ask a sometimes-over friend to do on like a regular basis. If i have to call him out every time he sees me, he won’t like and respect me anymore, so won’t matter if I do call him out.

But really, what’s the problem? We call them as we see them, but we should never allow them to take our language from us. They dont deserve nearly that much respect or control. Obvious dog whistles, fine, we can avoid those like above monkey stuff depending how it’s presented. But we should never ever give ground without them winning it, and they aint done shit in decades worth claiming our language.

You're beyond jadded trying extra hard to be bothered by something innocuous. If they used that guy you could make the argument that Pakistan doesn't have explicit cannibalism laws so its perpetuating the idea that Pakistanis are cannibals. Or that the meme is framing middle eastern people/muslims as violent because they are seeking out an arms dealer. Literally anything can be a dog whistle if you do enough mental gymnastics to make it one.