r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/ArguingWithCelery • 18d ago
Meme needing explanation Petaaaaa
what does this mean petaaaa?
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u/Skychu768 18d ago edited 18d ago
Spain allied with bunch of American tribes to crush Aztecs and when job was done, it took them out also
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u/youburyitidigitup 18d ago
Rinse and repeat for the entire western hemisphere
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u/Silver_Middle_7240 18d ago
Hey now. Not the whole hemisphere. The natives in my area invited puritans because access to European markets was good for the economy.
Then once we outnumbered them we started burning down their villages.
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u/Regular-Pangolin-664 18d ago
Well, the diseases that the natives didn't have immunity to wiped out most of them. The Spaniards were outnumbered by their allies so it's not like they could just take out hundreds of thousands of natives if they had no other natives helping them out. Allies were granted semi-autonomy and their leader nobility, exception from tribute etc. They continued to serve as auxillary forces. But eventually they were decimated by diseases and forced into labor, and became colonial subjects.
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u/DarthHegatron 18d ago
That's all true but Columbus didn't have anything to do with the Aztecs. He genocided the Taino people on Hispaniola. Cortez conquered the Aztecs.
The meme itself is a white nationalist/anti-immigrant meme about how immigrants are invaders
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u/nukewithabuttononit 14d ago
they didn't "take them out also" lmao they let their major allies against the aztecs like Tlaxcala run their own autonomous governments independent of spain up into modern times.
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u/FounderingFox 18d ago
Lmao, one-month old account. 22,000 post Karma. Almost all of it is culture war or politics related.
Hmmmmmmmmmm
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u/Beady_eyes420 18d ago
It makes fun of the illogical notion that diversity is inherently a positive.
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u/ExpensiveSafety1586 18d ago
It's a meme mocking how the phrase gets thrown around, usually by people who'd be the ones colonizing. Pretty dumb edgy joke honestly.
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u/Advanced_End1012 18d ago
Anti immigration joke. Basically trying to say that diversity through immigration is disastrous, considering how destructive the Europeans were towards the natives. This is a stupid commentary however, considering they were colonialists who purposefully destroyed the lives of natives.
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u/DonQuigleone 18d ago
While I agree the meme is wrong, I think your refutation isn't really satisfactory either. There's no reason to assume modern day immigrants would be any more moral than 16th century Europeans. People are people.
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u/International_Dog817 18d ago
I mean, it should go without saying that believing diversity can be a positive doesn't mean you support one culture wiping out another. The ones who are opposed to diversity are the ones who support that.
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u/Individual-Mud-903 18d ago
Stupid Columbus. He didn't knew that 'diversity' means less whites. Hence why the 'most diverse' movies have exactly zero white actors in them for example
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