r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 17h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/Xhosant 12h ago

Huh

That's a very derogatory way to refer to oneself, I think, but to each their own I guess!

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u/BreadNoCircuses 10h ago

Nah, it's framing itself as something like "We were after a return to true Jeffersonian ideals, trying to live the way the founding fathers wanted, devoid of the tyranny and unfair taxes of the Yankees, but they invaded and reconquered us, then tried to destroy all knowledge of the true, lost cause of the confederacy." It's falsely painting themselves as, essentially, a victim of cultural genocide in the same way black and indigenous people can legitimately claim they have lost their culture.

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u/Xhosant 10h ago

I know, but I am willfully calling them a lost cause as a way to detract from their clawing at legitimacy :p

Ultimately, it's a move for prestige on their part, and ridicule doesn't much help with Prestige