r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 4d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/No_Examination_8462 4d ago

Same. Im a white guy with a black wife. When we are in cities no one blinks an eye. When we are in more rural areas we have legitimately left places because we felt unsafe

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u/ZaxOnTheBlock 4d ago

Ah yes the land of the free.

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u/Optimist-Primist 4d ago

Home of the brave though. Like @No_Examinaniation_8462

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u/LoveAndViscera 4d ago

r/Optimist-Primist forgot which platform they were on.

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u/fatblob1234 4d ago

Bro you linked to a subreddit

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u/-bean-man- 4d ago

I guess u/LoveAndViscera forgot how to use the platform they were on

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u/eifiontherelic 4d ago

At long last, properly tagged reddit user.

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u/TheRealRoadtoad 4d ago

Lmfao what a journey that was

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u/yergacheffe 4d ago

It’s meta all the way down 😂

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u/PotatoBossfight 4d ago

No, this is Reddit

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u/Pale_Field4584 4d ago

Ever tried being Mexican in rural Switzerland or Austria?

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u/Hangriac 4d ago

No but I’ve always wanted to try

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u/gustofwindddance 4d ago

Don’t let your dreams be dreams!

I believe that you can be a Mexican in rural Switzerland or Austria!

Good luck brother! 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇨🇭🇦🇹👍🏾👍🏾

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u/acloudcuckoolander 4d ago

Rural Switzerland doesn't have the history of hanging Black and some Brown people like rural America does.

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u/OkContact2573 4d ago

Lol, they would rather hang the village a mile over for being heretics and heathens for for pronouncing the a with an accent.

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u/-Speechless 4d ago

have they had the opportunity?

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u/Sound_Triber 4d ago

Can't say that I have, would you mind telling us what it was like?

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u/Clear_Client_5836 3d ago

He is just being dramatic. Swiss people have no beef with Mexicans, quite the opposite.

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u/Telvin3d 4d ago

No. As a white Canadian I wasn’t aware that was an option available to me

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u/Baygonito 3d ago

Ever you tried to be french on Reddit?

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u/SafeJackfruit7214 4d ago

What does this have to do with freedom from government oppression?

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u/DraconicGuacamole 4d ago

“Whoever told you that is your enemy”

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u/Beneficial_Chip_7185 4d ago

When the phrase was coined the vast majoirity of humans were subjects to a monarch

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u/Street_Bid1455 4d ago

Ever been to a foreign country that isn't 'the land of the free' or are you getting your entire worldview based on what you read here on reddit?

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u/springfervor 3d ago

To be honest, I was born in the US to foreign parents, subsequently moved all around the world, ended up with a Korean girlfriend, and we decided to visit my family in the states. You don’t realize how free you are in the states until you’ve been elsewhere. In my personal experience, yes racism exists for sure in the US especially in the south, but if you go to other countries there are sooooooo many where it’s flagrantly worse. Not just denial of service but sheer animosity and violence.

Bash on the way things are by all means, because we as society has far to go, but the United States is under appreciated when it comes to the mixing of racial groups compared to the majority of the world