sure, when my grandfather fought nazis and fascism he was “a hero” and “on the right side of history” but when i do it im “way too sensitive” and “no better than they are”
me in cyberpunk
- other people: but if we do all this body modification... if we let cybernetics define us... are we still...human?
- me, skating in on the permanent retractable heelys in my feet: what's up guys my arm has a lava lamp in it now
That’s because when our white grandparents fought Nazis, it was for fear of them taking power away from other white people.
White Europeans and Americans were explicitly fine with genocide and the ideologies that led to it – a great many people, including Churchill, vocally supported most of what the Nazis were doing. Their only fight with Nazis was to maintain sovereignty from takeover.
Today’s Nazi-fighters usually have a problem with white supremacy and the antisemitism and racism etc behind it – which most of our white grandparents didn’t see a problem with and neither do many white people today.
This is why so many people don’t see any reason to stop the Nazis now, or why many others think it’s purely a struggle for Democrats or other neoliberal parties in other countries who might lose political power if they gain traction. Many people don’t see Nazis as a real problem unless they threaten the political power of other white people.
White supremacist organizations and movements have been a life-threatening scourge for people of colour and Jewish people this entire time. It’s really important that we focus on that as the real threat, or we risk having the same myopic perspective as generations past.
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history is fucked up and it sucks because all the people in it who had great viable werewolf names weren’t werewolves. like what the shit. if you knew nothing about history or literature i guess or whatever you’d see names like “virginia woolf” and “oscar wilde” and be like. ah yes. these are definitely some prime secret werewolf poorly masquerading as human intellectual situations? but neither of those people were real live werewolves, factually speaking? they did not take advantage of that opportunity. and i think we are all worse off for it actually
oh dude. this is peak content
Early Irish law is very important.
You gotta love that the Brehons were even thinking of the crazy cat ladies.
question, and feel free to answer with real info or total bullshit (i like both): why was this an issue of concern for lawmakers? like, were there disputes over cat names? what problem was this seeking to solve?
I’m going off memory and this is going to sound like BS, but it’s not, I went to school for this, lol.
Cat’s were an important part of keeping a house in the medieval era. Rats, mice and roaches were known to be disease carriers and keeping a good hunting cat was believed to be a good ward against those animals and their diseases. (Of course, with the exception of plague, this is true.)
But not all cats are created equal, same as now, some were content to just sit around and mooch off the milk. (Don’t feed your cat cows milk, we know better now.)
Medieval Irish cat law, or
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Catshlechta
“
Was a means of solving the lazy cat problem.
How do you determine what a cat is worth? By it’s merit of course.
How do you know what it’s merits are? By it’s name.
So a good hunting cat would be given a name that reflected what its positive traits were regarding it’s job. (Everything was work back then, even for cats.)
In example…
“Meone” meant “Mighty roar” and it was considered to be able to scare beasts away (both pests and supernatural creatures.) It was worth 2 cows.
“Cruipne” or “Mighty paw” was a thrice proven mouser, and worth three ounces of coinage. usually assigned to protect areas of wealth like grain stores or cattle housings.
“Breone” or “Fireside cat” was good at both hunting and purring (I.E affection.) and was worth 3 whole cows.
“Baircne” a female cat (Owned by a woman usually) said to be good at protecting ships and women. It was worth whatever you could get a woman’s husband would pay for it.
Cats were usually kept in the same housing as the cows and were looked after by whomever fed said cows, hence the relation to cow costs.
Also, gender mattered. Male cats were noted to be far more lazy, and were worth about half of whatever a female cat was.
(Don’t ask me how they sexed the cats, they didn’t leave us that detail.)
There’s also a set of laws for dogs called “Conshlechta”
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Okay how are those names pronounced though
And what would a lazy, dumb cat be called because I might need to change my cat’s nickname
With the usual caveat that we don’t actually know how medieval languages were pronounced, and that this is a reconstructed pronunciation based on historical linguistics:
Meone: /’meo:ne/ meh-OH-neh, with stress on the meh.
Cruipne /’crubne/ CRUB-neh.
Breone /’breo:ne/ breh-OH-neh, stress on breh.
Baircne /’bar’gne/ BAR-ug-neh, with the ‘ug’ syllable much shorter than the other two syllables.
A friend of mine posted this to Facebook and I realised how important this sentiment is.
