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Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
TIL about the Cagots, a group of people in France and Spain who experienced systemic hatred and discrimination because... they were Cagots.
They weren't any different from the other people living near them - same skin and hair color, same language, same religion, etc. - but if you were born to a Cagot family, you were a Cagot, and the rest of the people hated and shunned you. And nobody nowadays knows why; the origins of the discrimination have been lost to time.
@aeonofdiscord
@noelle I can't get my head around this, it sounds like a heavy-handed sci-fi metaphor but it's a completely real thing that happened
@aeonofdiscord I know, right? Like if I ran across this in fiction I’d think “the author needs to learn some subtlety”.