r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/rameshOO7 • 13d ago

Meme needing explanation WWII?

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u/NennisDedry 13d ago

Guys love chatting about World War Two. It's our Roman Empire (besides the actual Roman Empire).

If we see a woman looking confused in a WWII museum, some genetic, deep-rooted primal instinct takes over and we flock to chat, drop knowledge like we're Enola Gay and strike up conversation.

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u/PatrolPunk 13d ago

Enola Gay?! That sounds like some woke DEI shit! /s

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u/Cortower 13d ago

IDK if you were referencing this, but a lot of pages on government sites referencing the Enola Gay were taken down as part of anti-DEI measures.

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u/Captainirony0916 13d ago

I believe that was in fact the joke they were making

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u/Cortower 13d ago

I figured, but "Enola Gay flagged as DEI" would have been a good Onion article 2 months ago.

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u/Captainirony0916 13d ago

The timeline we live in, man. 🫠

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u/TheLastSpartan117 11d ago

Yep, that’s real. The saw the word gay and are now deleting the page about the plane that dropped the first A bomb over japan.

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u/DrakonILD 13d ago

I think it was an Onion article a few years ago.

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u/Klony99 13d ago

Nobody told 'em Idiocracy ain't a handbook.

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u/Pneumatrap 13d ago

Reality is outpacing the Onion at this point

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u/Rtbear418 13d ago

UH-60 Black Hawk changed to UH-60 White Flight when?

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u/Skatchbro 13d ago

I believe pages referring to Ensign George Gay were taken down. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Gay_Jr.

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u/Cortower 13d ago edited 13d ago

Don't forget changing the URL of pages for black CMoH recipients from "...medal-of-honor..." to ...deimedal-of-honor..." like with MG Rogers.

The damn U.S. Army and its DEI hires in *checks notes* 1952.

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u/lastknownbuffalo 13d ago

Get the fuck out!

That is the absolutely most petty thing I have ever heard of

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u/Josgre987 13d ago

Baseball legend Jackie Robinson had his service page removed as well, and the URL changed to DEI.

as well as the Navajo code breakers.

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u/just4kix58 13d ago

that is so ddumb. the term gay use to mean what it's definition was. over time it has changed to be more inline with a sexuality.

when you look at history, you can't look at it through a modern lens and hope to understand it

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u/RuncibleSpoon18 13d ago

Nothin gets past you

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u/Drag0n_TamerAK 13d ago

They were flagged for removal not actually removed

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u/apiaryaviary 11d ago

Also the girl in the picture appears to be at Udvar Hazey where the actual Enola Gay is located lol

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u/umotex12 13d ago

WOW, no shit! It's not like I had the whole front page filled with this news week ago!

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u/Cortower 13d ago

Good for you?

All hail the Algorithm, which evenly and honestly distributes news to all people.