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		hammock 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lording it, over: A new history of the modern Brit... > In terms of them not being swayed by ‘movements of the moment’, you are quite right. They are stuck in the past. 6% aren’t white. 26% are female You think this is an argument against the lords but for the people on the other side they think you are supporting them with these points. Britain was white country for the last 12,000 years and had primogeniture for the last 1,000+. The UK today is a proverbial pale blue dot on the timeline

CommenterPerson 10 days ago | [–]

Let's go even further back. Why not to when we were wearing skins and foraging for food. Or even further, when we were plain slime.

wredcoll 11 days ago | [–]

And if skin color and political decisions of people 1000 years ago controlled us today, this might be a reasonable point.

But they don't so it's not.

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