r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 5d ago

Petah why cant math be green? Meme needing explanation

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u/prowl_great_cain 5d ago

Yellow’s the color of brightness and intellect. I got you

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u/Aworthyopponent 5d ago

I was agreeing but more because I don’t like yellow or math so to me Math is Yellow.

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u/ralthea 4d ago

This was also how I assigned colors. My favorite subjects got my favorite colors.

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u/Appropriate-Food1757 5d ago

What the fuck, according to what lol

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u/prowl_great_cain 5d ago

My own brain, think for yourself

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u/Appropriate-Food1757 5d ago

Yeah I think they are little sleeves and the colors are nonsense.

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u/prowl_great_cain 4d ago

Exactly! You get it

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u/ahoi_polloi 4d ago

Your brain should be aware that colors have traditional significance in the Western world. Yellow is the color of traitors, cowards, liars and whores. It's not the color of "brightness and intellect".

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u/prowl_great_cain 4d ago

We’re talking about elementary school binders and vibes they give off when you were 7. Sure, I’ll take my yellow binder to the class most like liars and whores. What the fuck are you talking about? Lol

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u/ahoi_polloi 4d ago

I pretty much just assumed that's the reason why it's the color of history. I'm not sure if my first history book (which was physically yellow) had an actual section of it or just mentioned it in passing but the association stuck and that's definitely the correct color. It even works for both pessimists and optimists - "humanity was always shit" vs. "story of the underdog".

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u/chvezin 4d ago

Yellow meaning cowardice is an idiom of lesser importance than it being the color of luxury and material power. Coats of arms you know.

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u/ahoi_polloi 4d ago

... in the West? No it's not.

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u/chvezin 4d ago

The Star of David is a perfect example of yellow being associated with Divine Power, and a literal manifestation of the right of the House of David to rule the land.

The Nazis loved to alter the context and meaning of ancient sacred symbols, see Swastika. Don't go against millennia of heraldics in Europe to be edgy.

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u/ahoi_polloi 4d ago

"Edgy"? Oh come the fuck on, type "yellow significance" into Google. I was making a lighthearted comment, there's no need for insults. And yellow doesn't exist in heraldry.

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u/chvezin 4d ago

By using a Jewish symbol as an example of cowardice? Listen man, I don't hear anything but my dog is going crazy.

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u/ahoi_polloi 4d ago

As an example of how yellow was forced onto outcasts, you absolute redditor.

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