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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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Everett True believes in second chances (June 28, 1919) (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Rolando@lemmy.world to c/truecomics@midwest.social

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On June 28, 1919, the day this was printed, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France ending the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers of World War I. That's the context for the "hun mine-layer" comment.

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[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Kaiser Wilhelm gave a speech encouraging his soldiers to "be huns" on campaign, which led to it being an insult applied to Germans.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

“hun” was the “orc” of the pre-Tolkien era

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

1919 was the Tolkien era. He just hadn't published yet

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

Ehhh yes, but the stereotype already existed before that speech: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hun_speech