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RandomAccess

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19. Well, let's be clear

Reply to Squinch (Reply #3)

Sat Feb 10, 2018, 02:18 PM

Feb 2018

Her thesis is that the witch trials in Europe coincided with the fencing of the commons. It was a way to divide and confuse the underclass that was rising up against the loss of the commons, setting the male among them against the female.

It wasn't as if that hadn't been the reality for millennia already at the time.

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Thank you, Squinch! eleny Feb 2018 #16

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