I’m so out of the loop on the coconut thing. What’s even implied by that? squints eyes Is that a fucking brown on the outside white on the inside thing??? That’s fucking gross if that’s what it is.
I, too, have been atomically dissecting that meme to find the racism, and you know I won’t rule out that when the GOP makes a joke about that actually is what they mean, but it appears to be a thing fans of Harris also meme about.
She was telling a folksy story of growing up and she recounted how her mother had asked if the kids had just fallen out of a coconut tree. It’s a cute alternative to “were you born yesterday” or something like that.
I dunno, it has big “what doesn’t everyone say ‘porch monkeys?’” energy.
I just spent 10 minutes reading up on it. It’s SO convoluted that I could not follow what has happened and why. I still do not understand, and I want those 10 minutes back.
Basically, it comes from a speech she gave in May 2023 at a White House event about Hispanic excellence. In her speech, she also touched on how the democratic party can better support young leaders by understanding the context they grew up in.
This led into her personal anecdote from her mother, saying:
“My mother, she would give us a hard time sometimes, and she would say to us ‘I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?! (Laughs) You in exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.’”
This basically took off and got mixed up with the whole “pill meme” terminology. Those that wanted Biden to pass the torch to Kamala started saying they were “coconut-pilled” and the rest is history.
I’m so out of the loop on the coconut thing. What’s even implied by that? squints eyes Is that a fucking brown on the outside white on the inside thing??? That’s fucking gross if that’s what it is.
This is a stupid link to it but here you go: https://youtu.be/ZiRSLYV1X4A?si=kwAusX_Q-6cZig6d
I, too, have been atomically dissecting that meme to find the racism, and you know I won’t rule out that when the GOP makes a joke about that actually is what they mean, but it appears to be a thing fans of Harris also meme about.
She was telling a folksy story of growing up and she recounted how her mother had asked if the kids had just fallen out of a coconut tree. It’s a cute alternative to “were you born yesterday” or something like that.
I dunno, it has big “what doesn’t everyone say ‘porch monkeys?’” energy.
That’s an adorable anecdote. They are attacking her with that?
Imagine being the guy maintaining all of those ChatGPT/Twitter bots, waiting on instructions and desperately trying to get some kind of attack going.
It’s adorable and the whole quote is about society as well. Heaven forbid we have a president who understands some philosophy.
I was apparently born in a barn, according to my mother. Now that I’m old I can be heard yelling “Close the door!”
I looked it up this morning and I still don’t get it. She said something kind of weird about coconuts in a speech once and… that’s it?
Honestly of all the offensive things I could think of, I’m surprised it’s something so innocuous.
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I just spent 10 minutes reading up on it. It’s SO convoluted that I could not follow what has happened and why. I still do not understand, and I want those 10 minutes back.
This short video explains the coconut reference.
Basically, it comes from a speech she gave in May 2023 at a White House event about Hispanic excellence. In her speech, she also touched on how the democratic party can better support young leaders by understanding the context they grew up in.
This led into her personal anecdote from her mother, saying:
This basically took off and got mixed up with the whole “pill meme” terminology. Those that wanted Biden to pass the torch to Kamala started saying they were “coconut-pilled” and the rest is history.
A Sri Lankan origin comedian explains the slang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DhmqxJgJFo