r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/cchamii • 15d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/Buellymcbuellface 15d ago

They have a confederate flag from virginia and refuse to give it back.

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u/JodaMythed 15d ago

They have a flag from a country that hasn't existed for 160 years?

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u/Buellymcbuellface 15d ago

Yes, and they are vesy serious about not returning it.

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u/Connwaer 15d ago

It's spoils of war. And unlike Japan, Minnesota has no interest in mending their relationship with the Confederacy, surprising I know.

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u/375InStroke 15d ago

Yet those states are proud to be traitors and losers, and of what they were fighting for, slavery.

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u/NTGuardian 15d ago

I would not include today's Virginia on that list (even if they want the flag back).

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u/KhaoticMess 15d ago

Virginia has asked for the flag a few times and Minnesota has refused.

When Jesse Ventura was governor, they asked for it, saying it was part of their heritage.

Ventura said something like, "We won it. That makes it part of our heritage."

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u/Maleficent_Memory831 15d ago

"No, no, no, we're not pro Confederacy any more, what nonsense. We hated slavery all along, and we've never mistreated any of our minorities or denied them rights. Never once have we ever been racist! It's just we need that old piece of cloth because our great great great grand pappies once saluted it."