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In feudal times, if a peasant struck a lord, or insulted him, the peasant had hell to pay. On the other hand, if a lord struck a peasant, there was no consequence for the lord. This asymmetry was a privilege of nobility. Now I ask you: who, in modern times, has such a privilege?
They tell me /I/ am privileged, because I have good food to eat, and a warm bed to sleep in, but it seems to me that I work very hard for these things, and it seems there are people who are given these things for free, the same people you arenât allowed to insult
They say that if I commit a crime, I will be treated with leniency, but there are whole categories of crimes that only I am capable of committing, and if I do, my face will be on the national news
The privilege of nobility is when the law treats you as a special protected class
They say my privilege of being able to work for my food and my bed and my phone is so unfair to the nobles that it is necessary to bind me in these ways. The success of my work is an insult to the nobles
If I ever give umbrage to a noble with my words or my deeds, they will have take away my privilege to work, serves me right for being a peasant
The money I earn is used to feed the nobles, both at home and abroad, and many of the nobles pay no taxes at all. So I am asking you, who, exactly, is privileged?
And what would you think of nobles whose favorite past time, aside from patronizing the kingdomâs finest cobblers, was to fabricate stories of peasants assaulting them, or speaking forbidden words? So much for noblesse oblige
My memory is hazy but I seem to recall not too long ago that a peasant boy was nearly immolated for daring to smile at a noble. He really learned his place
You know a grand old peasant livelihood? Haberdashery. And the gossip around the local alehouse is that some uppity peasant woman dared to compare a noble foreign land to mars. The audacity! Well, a group of nobles descended on her with a ready-made discourse of shame
What did the peasant girl do? She asked her noble friends if she was as wicked as the mob had said. When the mob found out, they were very angry! How dare this peasant try to exploit her noble friends into performing "emotional labor"!?
Emotional labor is distinct from real labor in that it doesn't actually produce anything. Emotional labor is primarily done by nobles, and it usually happens when the nefarious peasants find a way to exploit it out of them.
My dream is to live in a world where there aren't any nasty peasants, where the world is only populated by good and moral and fair and just nobles. Fortunately, we are rapidly realizing such a world.
The peasants aren't having very many children, and when they're gone, all the nobles will live in peace, harmony, and prosperity
