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submitted 3 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 months ago

My best read on that phenomenon is that a few people took the discussion from Clerks a little further and started arguing as a joke that the empire were just trying to establish order as. They started r/EmpireDidNothingWrong, where irony-poisoned kids began taking the joke seriously, just like the people who legitimately believe the whole “birds aren’t real” theory.