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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

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[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

And who could forget granny's: when you're left handed, "YOU'RE THE LITERAL SPAWN OF SATAN" ok, dear?

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m stumped old people didn’t die on their stupidity.

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

Eh, living with themselves was punishment enough. I'm just sorry for the few level-headed outcasts who had to live thinking they were weird or pretending to fit in so they wouldn't be persecuted.

[–] demlet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well the plot twist is, they were generally exceptionally smart at what they needed to know to survive. It's easy to forget how difficult life was for average people up until fairly recently. Like less than a century ago. Education and literacy really weren't a priority.

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I’m not sure if not discriminating against lefties, homosexuals, “colored”, women in general, “witches” in particular, muslims, jews, basically anone non-Christian or even non-{insert denomination} counts as “education and literacy”.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since handedness is genetic, there is a chance that that's what she was told when she learned to use the right hand (pun intended)

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/39092/how-did-sinister-the-latin-word-for-left-handed-get-its-current-meaning yea, stupid ideas are contagious and latch onto language and culture, apparently. In Italian, left is still "sinistra", so that creates other fun puns like learning to use the sinister hand.

[–] demlet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

One of my favorite theories, by no means provable, is that since the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and also language (both of those are true actually), it's literally disparaging the side of the body it doesn't control and praising the side it does, which is why so often "left" develops negative connotations and "right" positive ones.

[–] UnknownQuantity@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go hang out with some Koreans (possibly other Asian people too), they will think you must be smart because of being left handed.

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

I think this meme is a Christian thing, although Muslims do reserve their left hand for the filthier things, so there's that coincidence. But in Asia I don't know any such precedent.

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 1 year ago

@Gsus4 In my country kids were beaten with rullers on their hands at school until they were able to write right-handed IIRC. Not sure if this brought to them anything else than trauma anyway.

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[–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My grandma is left handed, yes she now can write with both hands because they tried to beat it out of her, they did not entirely succeed.

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

I'll gladly be a spawn of satan for people who discriminate over something as handedness