Racist history always does stuff like this - A) it casts acknowledgement of non-White people& #39;s humanity as undignified. B) It casts the aggrieved white people as a part of the ruling class.
Your ancestors were serfs and cos playing as a knight would& #39;ve been illegal, but go off.
Your peasant ancestors were just kneeling everywhere about the shop, actually. You& #39;ve just been taught bad history that is only inhabited by "great men" so you think everyone in the past was a great man and that you& #39;d be too. No. You would be a peasant, which is good actually.
Sandra still wouldn& #39;t respect you in the medieval period, mate.
Racist history also does this - just making stuff up and trying to explain it to an actual medieval historian. "Serfs were free! Hot is cold! I& #39;m not a racist!"
Just in case any other dangers are reading this - serfs *by definition* are not free. That is what makes them a serf as opposed to just a peasant.
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