There's some really weird stuff in history, like the cagots in France, a group everyone discriminated against, but nobody knows why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cagot
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The best part, to me, is that cagots as a group functionally no longer exist because they burned the list of cagots and no one knew how to figure out who was a cagot.
Always interesting to read about a group of people who you never heard of. That article is huge. Wtf is wrong with people.
If Europe doesn't have a minority to repress they'll invent one
woah that's wild
Man that’s crazy, I notice it mentions speculation that they could be related to the Cathars, the religious branch in France that the Vatican launched a whole ass crusade against.
From the 1200- 1800s there was a persistent belief that Jewish men had menstrual periods.
