LGBTQ+ Activist's Unexpected Hope

Text on the meme

LGBTQ+ activist speaks at a vigil in Berlin a day after the Islamist car-ramming attack against the Berlin Gay Pride Parade: “I had hoped that the attacker was not a foreigner, but a white Christian person”

What it means

A woman speaks into a microphone at an outdoor vigil in Berlin, with another person beside her. The joke highlights the apparent contradiction in hoping the attacker would be a white Christian person rather than a foreigner, mocking an ironic form of identity-based bias and hypocrisy. It is used as a reaction to statements that reveal unexpected or self-defeating prejudice.

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woman speaker / женщина-оратор microphone / микрофон outdoor stage / открытая сцена black crop top / чёрный топ light jeans / светлые джинсы belt / ремень keys / ключи bracelets / браслеты person beside speaker / человек рядом с оратором vigil crowd / толпа на бдении building column / колонна здания white tent / белый шатёр phone screenshot / скриншот телефона social media post / публикация в соцсети