I genuinely have no idea where the joke came from but it seems pretty big since I've heard it IRL a few times now. Where did this come from?

  • SteamedHamberder [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Yes and- Italian immigrants and earlier generations had a significant history of leftist/labor organizing. Their politics veered hard right as a reaction to the Civil rights movement. (Perhaps an oversimplification, it had to do with the growth of suburbs, white flight from the urban centers, a return to parochialism as a counterbalance to 60s hippie counterculture)