#seriously the witch shit is especially aggravating because it derives from such an extremely narrow period of history with anglo peasants

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everyone that replied to this post is extremely annoying and are also extremely tone deaf because no, the op was not saying 'life in the 1600s rocked' - yes we know antibiotics were not around. we know childhood mortality was sky high. we know you worked back breaking labor in the fields as a peasant and your quality of life was definitively much worse than today, but that literally was not the point.

the point is that you people act like the past was a time when literally everybody was beheaded at the immediate first sign of deviancy, and that in fact nobody could have handled you being a quirky blorbo chungus or whatever, when infact, most people throughout history have acted in a pretty consistent way. your undiagnosed autism or adhd or anything is something literally nobody cares about. you being a random person who says silly things is actually not noteworthy at all and not going to make you a witch omg burn this woman / queer / whatever minority immediately. society was not some totally homogenous 100% uniform super straight hetero catholic paradise where everyone obsessively policed and tormented each other.

also to the one person saying "uhm actually we're fighting against a neo-reactionary trend of glorifying the past..." you are quite literally doing the same thing in the same vein as the reddit morons who pushed "the dark ages.... the middle ages were a time when society slid back from the roman golden ages... nothing happened for 700 years and people burned witches... muddled about in the dirt... and dogmatically worshipped the pope" as if the entire period wasn't mostly nobles having sex disputes with each other and sending guys to behead the pope because they didn't want to pay taxes for some doorframe.

i actually really hate those posts where everyone is like "ough oigh i would have died in 1600 because of [reason]" like its annoying and its actually fucking sad how so many of you seem to view the past and the people in it. Autistic people in the past had full and happy lives. Jewish people in the past had full and happy lives. You would not have been "burned as a witch" for having adhd, you have a persecution complex thats deeply annoying and ahistorical. The lives of marginalised people in the past were not just strife and suffering and dying violently and frankly its offensive that yall keep trying to reduce it down to such. Why are you so obsessed with erasing the spectrum of human existence why are you so obsessed with erasing joy why are you so obsessed with denying the capacity for marginalised people to have been happy