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These are actual images from Iran before the revolution. 

I want to be clear to everyone -- a roomful of East Asian women in bathing suits is clearly not from this era. It was a screenshot of a crass joke satirizing how critics of the regime or of the government in Afghanistan pass around images from the past of women dressed in ways that wouldn't be tolerated by Islamist governments today. I'm surprised by how many of you took it seriously, and I'm sorry if that caused any offense; I thought it was obvious parody.

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I thought the original meme was hilarious (so much that I saved it to my meme library) and anyone who couldn’t figure out it was satirical is terminally brain dead.

You are not responsible for brain dead people misunderstanding your content.

Don’t change your casting standards or habits to cater to the lowest denominator. Let intellectual fitness and natural selection shape your followership

It's actually heartwarming that so many people *didn't* recognize it as a 4chan screenshot.

Sometimes it's easy to forget that there are people whose minds have not been melted by the Internet. Good on them.

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That’s a fair take as well. I guess I was being reductive by saying “braindead”. There are people who are just young and haven’t been exposed to all the history of how a topic has been treated on the internet, and dont yet know any better (or worse)

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ten_thousand.png

ᴡɪʀᴇᴅ ꜰᴏʀ ᴡᴏɴᴅᴇʀ, ᴛʀʏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ꜱᴇɴꜱᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ . ɪ ᴀꜱᴋ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇ ɪ ᴄᴀʀᴇ. ɪ ᴄᴀꜱᴛ ᴛᴏ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ʟᴇꜱꜱ ᴀʟᴏɴᴇ.

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