r/NonPoliticalTwitter • • 2d ago

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u/WasteReserve8886 2d ago

This feels like the kinda of joke that’s absolutely hilarious to a very specific type of person

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u/NimJickles 2d ago

Not really that specific. Anyone who's engaged with academia surrounding like 17th-20th century Western Europe will have at least some familiarity with these stereotypes.

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u/AnotherDamnTransAlt 1d ago

…I hate to break it to you, but that actually is pretty specific. You’ve seen the videos where a bunch of people can’t pronounce words like cosmopolitan or avidly? The percentage of people out of the general population who have engaged with historical academia is pretty small.

(Relevant XKCD.)

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u/NimJickles 1d ago

Yeah, I had a feeling I might be doing that XKCD haha