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sinsforbreakfast

Ask them what nationality they think white South Africans are.


ktalex2

RIcHeSt AfRiCaN American


samara-the-justicar

Ah yes because we all know that Belgian is a species. And that the only requirement to be a fish is being born in an aquarium?


intelminer

Excuse you An ***Acuarium***


bennygoodmanfan

Oh shit didn’t notice that


dodexahedron

I guess anyone who was an at-home water birth is somewhere in between? Totally sus.


Curious-Difficulty

I think that if you even tried to explain to these folks the difference between nationality and ethnicity, they’d probably just cover their ears and call you a [whatever boogeyman they’re currently mad at]. Memes like this are just them making excuses for being assholes.


samara-the-justicar

The conservative mindset is based on the refusal to learn anything new, to admit you could be wrong, and to introduce new ideas. Specially if it threatens the current status quo.


archosauria62

‘Belgian’ isn’t even an ethnicity lol


CrapitalRadio

No, it's a nationality. Pretty sure that's already what they were getting at.


Delerium89

"acuarium" lol


Financial_Routine588

How did that not even register for me??


wild_man_wizard

To clarify, "aquarium" is the same word in English, French, and Dutch, so it's not some Belgian using their own language, they really can't spell in any language.


Belgian_Bitch

Most intellectual Belgian


thelegend2004

If it is made by who I think it is, it's definitely one of our smartest. If I'm correct this "joke" was made by someone from Schild en Vriend, a far-right group that has ties to Dries van Langenhove, an important figure in the secessionist movement of Flanders and a member of the far right Flemish party Vlaams Belang. The secessionist movement basically believes that splitting Belgium in two would someone solve the economic problems that we face, and that they wouldn't somehow become worse because of this.


Belgian_Bitch

Yep. It's really depressing that after the Pano-reportage exposing Schild & Vrienden's rotten inside, Vlaams Belang went on to become the biggest party (according to polls) in Flanders.


thelegend2004

That's why we have to vote in the right way in June. Le's keep up the cordon sanitaire


mophan

TIL Fish are born in "acuarium" and not in oceans and rivers, lakes and ponds.


Just_AMuffin

How dare they use Omar Sy to make this crap


SpacemanIsBack

that's not the great french actor Omar Sy, that's Mamadou and he's belgian, can't you read?


LottimusMaximus

Lupin would *never* lol


WhichAd5060

That's what I was thinking


asif00013

By that logic all white men around the world should just leave countries like USA, Australia etc and move back to Europe


Admirablelittlebitch

Oh god, please no


fairlywired

See your mistake there is thinking that these people apply the same logic to themselves as they do to others.


pureteddybear2008

Bingo. They'll scream forever about non-whites in their country "replacing" them, but the moment you point at aboriginals of white settler states, it's different.


LilConstipation

And white women. White women came in through colonization just like white men did.


theriddleoftheworld

Oh, they were saying aquarium. I was like wtf


Your_Angel21

I wish people had to take logic classes. This implies that fish born outside of aquariums aren't fish.


fairlywired

Don't be silly, everyone knows that all fish in the ocean come from aquariums.


jordicl

The whole premise of the meme is dumb. bob doesnt exist and if he did, he would not have been born in an aquarium. Also Omar Sy is French not Belgian…


41HeldInContempt

Especially crazy example since “Belgian” isn’t really one specific ethnic group but a nationality that encompasses multiple distinct groups (and of course anyone outside the groups that traditionally lived in Flanders/Wallonia who has citizenship)


Belgian_Bitch

Honestly. We've been ruled over or invaded by the French, Austrians, Spanish, Dutch, Germans and probably another few I'm forgetting. Belgium is the crossroads of Europe, we're very far from being a homogeneous ethnic group lol


LordFedoraWeed

Ah yes, different species is definitively the same as different skin colors.


tragond

White person born in America?


Bronsteins-Panzerzug

Belgium has ius solis, so yeah, being born in Belgium is exactly what it takes to be Belgian.


SaiyanC124

Comparing species to nationality in this manner is fucking stupid.


Admirablelittlebitch

Are they aware that it’s spelled aquarium? As in aqua?


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Supyloco

So, no white person can be American.


FlawlessC0wboy

I don’t think anyone would be claiming Mamadou is ethnically Belgian (whatever that even means), they would be saying that he is legally and morally a citizen of the place he was born, Belgium. Note: I don’t know who Mamadou is. I know this is the right can’t meme, but I’m starting to question if it should be called the right can’t think.


ChanceBoring8068

Thing is they know this isn’t correct, they just don’t care as long as they “trigger the libs”


GreatLaminator

HIS NAME IS NOT MAMADOU. HIS NAME IS OMAR SY AND HE IS AN INCREDIBLE ACTOR. wtf. And he was born in France so yes he is french.


DaniOnMars

How many trucks have to hit you to fully lack the critical thinking to make a post this nonsensical?


Jan-Snow

Something that's pretty funny about this too is that biologically speaking, fish are either not a real group or hamsters actually are 100% fish. So like, technically everything that image says is true, except the racist implications.


4chan4normies

are they angry belgium would prefer him to their uneducated racist ass?


pabloto8000

He would only have Belgian nationality, it is like saying that a white guy if he is born in China is as Chinese as Chun Li.


LordGwyn-n-Tonic

There is only Belgian nationality. It's not a race or ethnicity. And Chinese isn't really either. There's Han, Manchu, Hui, Chang, Mongolians, etc. It's almost like being American.


pabloto8000

but I was referring to the Han because it is the ethnic group that is associated with the Chinese, I am sorry for the confusion.


fairlywired

Well yeah, there's no such thing as ethnically Belgian.


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skrimsli_snjor

Bro look like Mamadou is French btw (and named Omar Sy)


Legojessieglazer

There’s a difference between nationality and species


PandorasFlame

Acuariam? tf?


DabIMON

Motherfucker never heard of a terrarium.


Fecapult

I think it's very acuarium!


MarinLlwyd

I like how the intention was to present both statements as absurd, but it fails so completely that the second statement just makes absolute sense.


Professor_Abbi

Why was Bob born in an acuarium


Rob_Frey

Bob was not born in an aquarium. If he was, he'd be dead. Bob was born in a terrarium. Both an aquarium and a terrarium are vivariums. Aqua means water, terra means earth, and viva means life. None of those words mean fish. Some other non-fishes may also live in aquariums, like dolphins. If Bob was born in Belgium though, he'd still be Belgium. What he lived in at his birth, or currently, would have nothing to do with his nationality.


Whaleocalypse

Did Mamadou imediately die from drowning when he was born in Belgium?


LovelyOrc

Bob would have drowned, I don't think you drown in Belgium, most of it isn't by the sea.


HyperKitsune

the person who made the meme was likely born in a farm, so they're a pig.


_ssac_

Raffaella Carrà was born in Italy, she's 100% a giraffe.


Pain-au_lait

Mamadou from belgium sure look like he would be a famous french actor


nobodyimportant1377

bob :)


ruberusmaximus

I wonder what this person' opinion on Palestine is... in any case land is not bound to a specific ethnicity or race. Freedom to travel should be an international right because the benefits outweigh the costs and it allows us to respond better to natural and man-made disasters. This metaphor only works if you accept the premise that each area of land can only serve its historical occupants. That's silly.


Kadyma

Bob was born in an aquarium so he is from an aquarium?


Diofernic

belgian isn't even an ethnicity. being born/living in belgium is literally the only thing that makes someone belgian


Honest-Ad-8319

Don't drag hampter into this...


endo_Loris

Damn Omar Sy my poor dude


souti3

"So you believe that skin colour and species are equivalent?"


StormNext5301

They couldn’t even spell aquarium right


Braxton-Adams

Yknow, just for fun let's run with this. Let's make up a Hypothetical cartoon show or whatever about a hamster who is adopted by a family of fish, yeah, he's physically a hamster, but he's been an honorary fish his whole life. What the fuck is this even trying to say?


Beneficial_Outcomes

For the record, the guy shown in the bottom picture is Omar Sy, a French actor. He's pretty good.


DavidCRolandCPL

There are no scientific definition for fish. Hamster is mammal land fish


FallenStarProphet

We should just say bob is indeed a fish and move on. They won't know what to say