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Everett True Comics

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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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Get up out of that so I can take one more punch at you!

Sadly, Everett would need to wait for the Fair Housing Act of 1968 for this landlord’s behavior to be federally illegal. It’s unclear what state Mr. True lives in (besides anger, obviously).

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[–] qooqie@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago (21 children)
[–] macarthur_park@lemmy.world 65 points 2 years ago (18 children)

Yeah, I was hoping that maybe back then the term was meant to refer more to the “human race”, so a concern about population growth.

But some quick googling indicates the eugenics-meaning version of the term was coined around 1900. Honestly not a good look for Everett.

[–] barkingspiders 1 points 2 years ago

Woof 😞 , certainly a sour note here. Good reminder of how things have (or fucking haven't) changed

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