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The Brits SUCK and they STINK (lemmy.world)

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Anybody else read "But we wuz Brits" in a Cockney accent?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

everyone speaks in a Cockney Accent

Washington shoots a guy for it

everyone surviving immediately sounds like they're from Boston

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 months ago

George Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Washington

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

I want to read more of this.

[–] Blackout@kbin.run 9 points 4 months ago

AI is going to do this with our history one day.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

That's certainly what we're taught in England.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Guh?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago (3 children)

There are a lot of things that aren't commonly known about Washington

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The old Internet was so good

[–] flicker@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

The show China, Illinois did it for me.

Same people.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

If you haven't seen the video linked above, do it.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Came to the comments for exactly this.

[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I read that Martha Washington was really hot

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Go home, history, you're drunk. And stoned. In that order.
How many times do I have to tell you? Smoke first, THEN drink.

[+] CTDummy@lemm.ee -6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just an fyi “we wuz” has some pretty racist associations in its meme resume.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't think that racism was the intention here, but I'll keep an eye out in the future.

[–] CTDummy@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Oh no not at all, just mentioning it so you’re aware is all. Edit: I figured it worth mentioning because it was alt-right tier stuff. If it were me, I’d want to know if I were unintentionally using something like that. Hence fyi.

[–] flicker@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm from the south and some of us just talk like that. Is it supposed to be mocking a race instead of just poor folks from Appalachia?

[–] wieson@feddit.org 3 points 4 months ago

I think it is mocking a certain conspiracy theory (black Israelites??) by people who think all black people were the ancient Egyptians. "We waz kangs/ we were kings" is the phrase.

Since it involves black people, it is obviously used by alt right alt hist dudes to discredit and mock all black people.

[–] CTDummy@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

As the other guy mentioned there were/are places on the internet that frequently posted propaganda styled stormfront images of black people (exaggerated features, like lips and etc) using some variation of the phrase “we wuz kangs…” and so on. Like I said the phrase (or it usage in the op) isn’t racist, just that people should know it’s a phrase with some history.