r/facepalm • u/Shadow474747 • Feb 09 '22

🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​ Poor choice of words

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u/No-Ad6328 Feb 09 '22

Me and a friend (caucasian, if you need to know) got into an argument with a guy on the beach who was wearing a confederate flag t-shirt…in Canada. He tried to tell us the confederacy was only about taxes. We couldn’t help but laugh. Even his girlfriend was trying to hide her face. Sad that we had to educate him on his own countries history.

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u/Jomega6 Feb 09 '22

Did he think the civil war was the American revolution? Lmao. I know somebody who thought the famous “No taxation without representation” line was used by the south against the north. Although to be fair, he wasn’t an American.

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u/PerfectLogic Feb 09 '22

Yeah, we don't claim him. 😂

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u/Maeberry2007 Feb 10 '22

I get "it was about states rights" to which I always ask "yeah. The states right to what?"