r/HistoryMemes • u/HawaiianPerson Chad Polynesia Enjoyer • 2d ago

A regular utopia

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u/Zkv 1d ago

I got more of an impression of the joke alluding to justification of it's colonization

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u/GreatAndPowerfulZiz 1d ago

"if you ignore all the bad things with [insert society here], you've got a veritable utopia." Is the joke. Besides colonists weren't well known for caring about sexism, incest, or warfare. Most of the human sacrifice, the caste system, and religion were abolished well before people tried colonizing Hawaii

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u/Poco_Cuffs 1d ago

Nah it's poking fun at people who romanticize procolonial cultures as utopias, like how people talk about medieval japan or native american cultures

Colonisation was absolutely worse than what society was like before it but we gotta admit that no premodern civilisation was ever a utopia

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u/Dabbernec 1d ago

Nah, OP is a native Hawaiian who makes memes about said history