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JimDandy

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1. And the working class are still

Reply to mgc1961 (Original post)

Sat Apr 13, 2013, 02:51 PM

Apr 2013

being defined by the rich. Just look at what happened to Occupy.

"To add insult to injury, the nobility regarded all commoners with supercilious contempt. The word “villain” derives from the Latin “villanus,” or “farmhand,” and was used to denote any bumpkin or hick, people who were also assumed to be untrustworthy scoundrels."

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