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I don’t care what anyone says! (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It’s like the Victorians who believed that Britain was founded by a Trojan named Brutus, because how could the mighty lion-race of Albion who conquered a third of the globe possibly be descended from a bunch of woad-painted savages rather than the noble civilisations of classical antiquity?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

woad-painted savages

I now have a new slur for the English. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Oh that's an old one. Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (who had Jewish ancestry) said this in Parliament in the 1830s:

While the ancestors of right honorable gentleman for Upper Ordure were walking around dressed in pelts and woad, my ancestors were signing psalms to the Lord in the temple of King Solomon.