“A strong candidate for biggest lie in American history.”

"I refuse to imagine medieval English peasants as anything other than Monty Python mud farmers."

"Not to mention, linen undergarments would absorb both sweat and dirt and skin particles, and they got washed often. They stayed pretty clean just from that alone, and then adding washing up with a washcloth or taking a dip on the regular. They did not really have any issues with hygiene."

"Ireland was raising lots of farm animals and growing expensive crops that went to Britain. The peasants basically ate lots of potatoes because they grew well on poorer lands/soils, and when that crop failed, the poor starved. But the land was still producing lots of food, it's just that the controlling powers were still taking their food while the main population were left to starve."

"For my final in a history course, I did a paper on the Cherokee, how they sided with the Confederacy in the Civil War (albeit deeply divided), and how the US forced the Cherokee to abolish slavery."

"Or that living like people in hunter-gatherer societies did equals living healthily and naturally. Those cultures existed for thousands of years. There was clearly development and primeval technology there. And they did not have a large life expectancy, so saying that whatever they did means it was healthy is a bit nonsensical."

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