Scotland could soon pardon thousands of women executed as witches

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  1. How can we be so sure they weren’t? I for one would like to see the proof!

    The one in the picture is literally on a flying broom for fucks sake.

  2. Striking off legally binding rulings that declare that a woman was *a fucking witch* should legally be the easiest fucking thing in the world.

  3. serious question – why? what does this accomplish? these women are long dead, and as fucked up as their deaths were, that was a looong time ago.

  4. > The incorrect criminalisation of these women only strengthens gendered stereotypes in the modern-day and I believe righting this wrong will make a real impact in challenging gendered and patriarchal attitudes which still exist in society

    To the question of what gender studies graduates do with their useless degrees. This, this is what they do. Waste public resources on superfluous gestures. Everyone else has to play along and pretend this is somehow positive progress for society, lest they face cancel culture (modern equivalent of witch hunts, ironic, no?)

    Go prosecute grooming gangs and human trafficking rings if you want to ‘make a real impact’.

  5. But the real question is how do we know they weren’t? We all know how thorough witch burnings were

  6. Primo- Scotland wasn’t a free country.

    Secundo – Witches might be unimpressed with timing.

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