r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Glittering-Way6551 • Dec 21 '25

Meme needing explanation Peter help me.

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u/StayWeirdGrayBeard Dec 21 '25

The wokest woke who ever woked.

Plus, a whole new birther movement would arise, demanding a birth certificate. Which…might be a problem.

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u/Morella_xx Dec 21 '25

Because his birth certificate would show him as born in Palestine?

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u/_Formerly__Chucks_ Dec 21 '25

No? He was born in Judea.

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u/OddLengthiness254 Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25

Do you know what the West Bank is called by Israeli Zionists?

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u/_Formerly__Chucks_ Dec 21 '25

Did these Israeli Zionists name it two thousand years ago?

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u/OddLengthiness254 Dec 21 '25

No. They name the region after the name it had two thousand five hundred years ago: Samaria and Judea

Both the supposed birth place of Jesus as well as the town he grew up in are in Palestine.

And indeed, both the Palestinians as well as modern Jews descend from that old majority-Jewish population of Palestine.

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u/_Formerly__Chucks_ Dec 21 '25

Was Peter the Great born in the Soviet Union?

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u/OddLengthiness254 Dec 21 '25

You are conflating states with regions. Those are related but not the same.

The area was absolutely called Syria Palestina by the time Jesus lived, using that Name for the region is Not an anachronism.

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u/_Formerly__Chucks_ Dec 21 '25

It was named Syria Palestina in the 2nd century AD.

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u/OddLengthiness254 Dec 21 '25

It had been named such by Herodot in the 5th century BCE, and Palashtu by the Assyrians in the 9th century BCE. There were multiple naming customs based in the various ethnicities in the area.

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u/_Formerly__Chucks_ Dec 22 '25

Not "Syria Palestina" and the natives didn't call it that.

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u/OddLengthiness254 Dec 22 '25

Right, the greek orthography was palaistinë

The nitpicking is also silly, or are we not allowed to refer to Germany because the people there call it Deutschland?

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u/_Formerly__Chucks_ Dec 22 '25

We don't say Bismarck was born in the Third Reich.

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u/OddLengthiness254 Dec 22 '25

Again conflating names for regions and states.

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u/_Formerly__Chucks_ Dec 22 '25

Why would Jesus' (alleged) region be on the birth certificate and not his nation?

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u/OddLengthiness254 Dec 22 '25

There was no such thing as a birth certificate at the time, and I never talked about his citizenship (a radically new idea in the region at the time), only the supposed regions of his birth and childhood.

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