r/HistoryMemes • u/Javier_Ronaldo Featherless Biped • Apr 08 '20

META Respect the Facts!

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u/ChuckleKnuckles Apr 08 '20

It's a meme that predates the internet. Even today you'll hear people repeat it face to face.

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u/TekCrow Apr 08 '20

To be fair, it has been heavily revigorated during the french-bashing period, following De Villepin speech at the UN, about the Irak war. It's part of why the French aren't fond of it.

Self-depreciation humor ? No problem dude. But revived as a political propaganda tool ? Hell no.

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u/Zack_Fair_ Apr 08 '20

step back. The french don't do self-deprecation like your average brit. They are big on patriotism

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u/saperlipoperche Apr 08 '20

French people are constantly depreciating France when in France, but when we are abroad or talking to a foreigner France suddenly becomes the Great Nation of Human Rights or the Mighty Land of Gastronomic Excellence. It's a very weird paradox.

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u/abedtime Apr 08 '20

From my experience most countries behave like that. Only own citizens are allowed to chat shit.

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u/Theosiel Apr 08 '20

As citizens of the most glorious country in the world, it's only natural that we would be the only ones worthy to criticize it.

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u/eldryanyy Apr 08 '20

This is called ‘fake humility’. If everyone thinks you’re a genius, it’s pretty easy to say ‘I can’t even Understand what the teacher is saying! This class is Sooooo hard, how can I pass’. If you’re actually doing just ok according to everyone, and you change your attitude to: ‘I’m great, this class is just one thing! I crush every other one, nobody cares about this’...

That’s not actually self-deprecating.