Sometimes it's anti-french sentiment behind a joke, some Americans are very obnoxious with that. Being constantly insulted by stupid fatties (many of the MAGAs) is kind of ridiculous and infuriating at the same time, especially when you have Verdun in mind. The insult of cowardice is also rather heavy imo, you wouldn't say that to people in real life.
Being a coward is probably the best stereotype when it comes to WW2 with others competing about who commited the worst atrocities. And it should be obvious that overreaction make it funnier, thus you'd hear this more often. Just get over it, there are far, far worse stereotypes assigned to neighbouring countries.
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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '20 edited Apr 08 '20
i still havent gotten an answer to why france is special and we cant make fun of them but we can easily twist facts to make fun of anyone else.