But What If You Were Gay in Gaza

Text on the meme

But what if you were gay in Gaza?

What it means

A smug-looking white cartoon face appears over a photograph of heavily destroyed buildings in Gaza, asking, “But what if you were gay in Gaza?” The joke uses provocative dark humor and a smug rhetorical question to comment on LGBTQ+ safety in a war zone and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. EN: A smug-looking white cartoon face appears over a photograph of heavily destroyed buildings in Gaza, asking, “But what if you were gay in Gaza?” The joke uses provocative dark humor and a smug rhetorical question to comment on LGBTQ+ safety in a war zone and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Who

Wojak

Objects

smug cartoon face / самодовольное мультяшное лицо destroyed buildings / разрушенные здания war-torn city / разрушенный войной город rubble / обломки smoke / дым high-rise apartment blocks / многоэтажные жилые дома speech bubble / речевой пузырь black-and-white drawing / чёрно-белый рисунок