"Uprisings after pandemics have happened before – just look" Topic

… at the English Peasant Revolt of 1381

"As a professor of medieval Europe, I've taught the bubonic plague, and how it contributed to the English Peasant Revolt of 1381. Now that America is experiencing widespread unrest in the midst of its own pandemic, I see some interesting similarities to the 14th-century uprising.

The death of George Floyd has sparked protests fueled by a combination of brutal policing, a pandemic that has led to the loss of millions of jobs and centuries of racial discrimination and economic inequality.

"Where people are broke, and there doesn't appear to be any assistance, there's no leadership, there's no clarity about what is going to happen, this creates the conditions for anger, rage, desperation and hopelessness," African American studies scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor told The New York Times…"
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Armand

this does not belong on the miniatures/ medieval board simply because someone used the word medieval in a sentence. Please stop with the media drama blitz.

I agree.

Drivel. 'Brutal policing'? Obviously the author has never lived outside the US, or read a book about policing in China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba, or any other totalitarian country.

"simply because someone used the word medieval in a sentence"
Maybe Tango was actually a bot along !!??

Yes… I am… of course!… (smile)

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Armand