2026-09-23 12:25 UTC
@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social it gets more interesting when you consider that the very word "villain" is " ... from Old French vilein (modern French vilain), in turn from Late Latin vīllānus, meaning serf or peasant, someone who is bound to the soil of a Latin vīlla, which is to say, worked on the equivalent of a plantation ... "
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/villain#Etymology
the classism runs deep.
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@claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social 2026-09-29 05:51
@llewelly@sauropods.win @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social Ah yes, old Snidely Whiplash, fresh from the world of the Fractured Fairy Tales of Rocky & Bullwinkle.