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History • 3 years ago

Freedom fries-type dumbassery goes back further than I thought

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Freedom fries-type dumbassery goes back further than I thought

NoGodsNoMasters [they/them, she/her] to

History • 3 years ago

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pumpchilienthusiast [comrade/them, any]
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3 years ago
American anti-Germanism during WWI was a helluva thing .

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- commiecapybara [he/him, e/em/eir]
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  3 years ago
  
  Some words of German origin were changed, at least temporarily. [...] German measles became "liberty measles"
  
  :data-laughing:
  
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- trabpukcip [he/him]
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  3 years ago
  My favorite example of WW1 nativist hysteria: a Norwegian-American couple was arrested for praying in not-english at their dead veteran son's funeral
  
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- SadStruggle92 [none/use name]
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  3 years ago
  deleted by creator
  
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  - pumpchilienthusiast [comrade/them, any]
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    3 years ago
    couldnt have said it better myself
    
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