I think the dumbest thing about Yankee Doodle is that it's not a patriotic song
It's a diss track
And Americans are so far removed from the historical context that they've just decided that it's patriotic instead
@coriander what i remember learning about it is that americans at the time didn’t care that it was a diss and just reapurropriated it
Lady, EVOLVED 
@coriander @aescling but it’s specifically a diss track of americans being crude and ignorant and full of new money and maybe we leaned a little hard into that one
@coriander @aescling 
yankee doodle was a diss track
yankee doodle was reappropriated by american colonists as a source of national pride
the reappropriation of yankee doodle by american colonists as a source of national pride is actually the genesis of a lot of what’s wrong in american culture
@coriander @aescling americans need to Get Over the fact that a couple of hundred years ago some british dudes (rightly) called them ignorant fucks
@aescling yeah