# The "George Floyd Challenge"-is this supposed to be FUNNY?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 4, 2020, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-george-floyd-challenge-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/855027 "2020-06-04T05:53:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-george-floyd-challenge-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/855027/1 "2020-06-04T05:53:20Z")

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Just when you think fun-lovin’ white boys can’t sink any lower, I give you [The “George Floyd Challenge”.](https://heavy.com/news/2020/06/george-floyd-challenge/?fbclid=IwAR1fPoFTWJ59mbDb93dsnwKvbzt2Z18hbYPErur5fUVgQ41nGF8URo6vTrQ) Mocking what happened to that poor man is the last thing our country needs. ☹

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**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-george-floyd-challenge-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/855027/2 "2020-06-04T05:59:05Z")

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Looks like it was a short-lived ‘thing’ with quick and severe ramifications for the numpties who thought it’d be cool, or edgy, or whatever the fuck the current buzzword is.

Good.

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-george-floyd-challenge-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/855027/3 "2020-06-04T06:00:59Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Just when you think fun-lovin’ white boys can’t sink any lower, I give you [The “George Floyd Challenge”.](https://heavy.com/news/2020/06/george-floyd-challenge/?fbclid=IwAR1fPoFTWJ59mbDb93dsnwKvbzt2Z18hbYPErur5fUVgQ41nGF8URo6vTrQ) Mocking what happened to that poor man is the last thing our country needs. ☹

The right wing tends to have a sense of humor almost entirely focused on laughing at the suffering of others. [The cruelty is the point](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/).

The Right exists to cause suffering, it takes joy in little else other than making people miserable or dead.

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**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-george-floyd-challenge-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/855027/4 "2020-06-06T15:25:22Z")

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It’s supposed to be shocking. Real life trolls with nothing better to do but try to get “likes” on social Media. It’s exhausting but not surprising.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-george-floyd-challenge-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/855027/5 "2020-06-06T21:44:30Z")

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It makes you miss the good old days when people like this would eat Tide pods.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-george-floyd-challenge-is-this-supposed-to-be-funny/855027/6 "2020-06-10T08:47:30Z")

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[And the insanity spreads.](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-counterprotesters-in-franklinville-n-j-mock-george-floyd-s-killing/ar-BB15gsSz?ocid=msedgntp) White counter-protesters with “All Lives Matter” and pro-Trump signs, some of them doing their version of “The George Floyd Challenge”.