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> regular citizen Almost, but not quite. She had royal blood on both sides of her father's family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan https://en.w
by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
> regular citizen
Almost, but not quite. She had royal blood on both sides of her father's family:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan
Not that this takes away anything from what you wrote, I just happened to be in one of my pedantic moods :)
- priprimer 2y agoroyal blood is one of them ideas even worse than the notion of race
- mangamadaiyan 2y agoI used "royal blood" to mean that she was in some sense privileged -- nothing more. Bad turn of phrase, I guess.
- belter 2y agoYeah...Declare one person special by birth, and suddenly everyone remotely related claims they're elite too, spreading hierarchy through society...:-) I recognize only one sovereign:...The Burger King
- snapcaster 2y agoLong may he reign
- readthenotes1 2y agoMy heart aches for you. As does, no doubt, your stomach.
- belter 2y agoWe all serve someone...I just prefer mine flame-grilled...
- pwillia7 2y agoIs classism not more real than race?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y agoI mean, classism is about as real as racism but I don't know why one would ask about classism vs race. Class is about as not real as race; they're both things that people made up to justify their disrespectful behavior towards others.
- octopoc 2y agoIn what way is race not real? Race is determined by DNA.
- Log_out_ 2y agorace as an idea is a societywide royalty of blood, which is why its so widespread in failed democracies with despots."We are all zhar/oligarch/king" and those not from here are the serfs.its the very same idea just bastardized.
- fmajid 2y agoSome of it being the blood of Tippu Sultan, who died fighting against the British to protect the independence of Mysore (and whose rocket technology the British stole and led to the verse in "The Star-Spangled Banner" about "the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air"). If anyone had any reason not to assist the British Empire, it was her.