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by palmetieri2000 1409 days ago
It is strange to believe that my comment must remain accurate in perpetuity.

At the time of my writing, the user had two comments in this thread, one about cleaning practices and traditional herbs (that almost no one took issue with).

>In response to someone claiming that there were (like in medieval Europe, the topic of this post) many poor people in India in the same time period:

That is not at all what was claimed by that comment.

"No. You are the peasant. No lands for you, you aren't a lord or lady, you're a peon like 99.999% of people. Almost no middle class, and you aren't upper! You're lower class." is an ignorant statement.

>No one said India was not "self-sufficient", we're talking about peasants in those times, having a low quality of life.

You don't dictate what 'we are talking about'.

What you seem to struggle to comprehend is the linearity of time. When Kumavvr made their first and second comments, the topic was about medieval bathing. Now it has changed as the conversation developed yet you think the comments made before the topic changed are expected to also cover the topic which did not exist at the time of their writing.