Of all the great memes and clips on the internet, Fat Kid Falls Off Bike being, of course, the top of the list, really in the last 13 years, 13 years this week, almost nothing created on this planet has surpassed in popularity or sheer hilarity an interview that took place on

Ugandan television in December of 2012 on a show called Morning Breeze, the morning

show of Kampala, Uganda, in which a trans activist, a woman who now identifies as a man,

came on and was asked a series of questions by the host.

And if you don't know what we're talking about, here is a two-second clip that reveals the essence of the conversation.

Why are you gay?

Why are you gay?

Let's play that again.

Why are you gay?

It's still the funniest thing that's ever been on the internet.

But why is it funny?

And why does almost everyone find it funny?

Left, right, straight, gay.

Well, because it's kind of the key question. and it's kind of the question that no one in the

United States is allowed to ask, why are you gay? And of course, it's being asked by an East African

with kind of a quaint, semi-colonial accent, and conservatives can laugh at it, liberals can laugh at it.

Really, this is the kind of the only way a white liberal in the United States could ever laugh at a black person. If it's an African expressing non-PC views on homosexuality, why are you gay? And, of course, people in the West laugh because the guy's an idiot. Why are you gay? We all know why you're gay. Why are you gay? Actually, we're laughing in part because

we're not allowed to ask that question. It's settled, though no one's really explained what about

it is settled. If you were to ask the average American, why are people gay? They would probably

say, well, they're born that way. And then if you followed up with, well, how exactly does that

work, they would have no idea. no idea and tell you to shut up.

Because again, like so many myths or things that we think we know, we don't really know.

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