r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Light_Yagami72 • Aug 01 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah why cant math be green?

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u/tennille_24 Aug 01 '26

I’m realizing I’m in the minority with feeling that math is yellow 😬

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u/prowl_great_cain Aug 01 '26

Yellow’s the color of brightness and intellect. I got you

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u/Aworthyopponent Aug 01 '26

I was agreeing but more because I don’t like yellow or math so to me Math is Yellow.

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u/ralthea Aug 01 '26

This was also how I assigned colors. My favorite subjects got my favorite colors.

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u/Appropriate-Food1757 Aug 01 '26

What the fuck, according to what lol

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u/prowl_great_cain Aug 01 '26

My own brain, think for yourself

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u/Appropriate-Food1757 Aug 01 '26

Yeah I think they are little sleeves and the colors are nonsense.

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u/prowl_great_cain Aug 01 '26

Exactly! You get it

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u/ahoi_polloi Aug 01 '26

Your brain should be aware that colors have traditional significance in the Western world. Yellow is the color of traitors, cowards, liars and whores. It's not the color of "brightness and intellect".

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u/prowl_great_cain Aug 01 '26

We’re talking about elementary school binders and vibes they give off when you were 7. Sure, I’ll take my yellow binder to the class most like liars and whores. What the fuck are you talking about? Lol

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u/ahoi_polloi Aug 01 '26

I pretty much just assumed that's the reason why it's the color of history. I'm not sure if my first history book (which was physically yellow) had an actual section of it or just mentioned it in passing but the association stuck and that's definitely the correct color. It even works for both pessimists and optimists - "humanity was always shit" vs. "story of the underdog".

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u/chvezin Aug 01 '26

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 Aug 01 '26

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

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u/chvezin Aug 01 '26

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 Aug 01 '26

"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 Aug 01 '26

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 Aug 01 '26

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

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