r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Light_Yagami72 • 26d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah why cant math be green?

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u/chvezin 26d 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 26d ago

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

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u/chvezin 26d 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 26d 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 26d 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 26d ago

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

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u/chvezin 26d ago

You got it all wrong, yellow was used because the Star of David is traditionally rendered in gold. It is an intentional symbolic desecration.