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Huh. I don't think I often see it with a racist context? It's usually funny/random stuff. Like "Gender" fluid and shit (I love dumb puns).
Idk why you're being downvoted tho :(
Looking it up it looks like it originally spread from a racist context. Not sure how reliable Know Your Meme is but here's one of the pages I was looking at. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/finally-synthetic-watermelon
Seen plenty of other bad ones on the Facebook and the Twitter before I quit though.
Wait, there’s a WATERMELON racist stereotype? What’s wrong with liking watermelon? Everyone likes watermelon, right?
There's also a fried chicken stereotype for African Americans. I think it had some historic context too.
Racists are weird, never mind.