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The lords would borrow money from Jewish lenders to pay for wars since Christians couldn't loan with interest, and when the lenders wanted repayment the lords would declare a pogrom.
Graeber's "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" goes into this in a bit of detail about 2/3 of the way through.
That's a book I recommend to people, "Debt: The First 5,000 Years”. 👍 https://bookwyrm.social/book/106743/s/debt-tenth-anniversary-edition
Literally the opposite....
https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-1030,00.html
That's what I said, the Christians wouldn't loan because they couldn't charge interest.
You used a double negative dawg...
What you said was:
That might not be what you meant to type, but that's what was typed.
Or you could have said:
While that statement could be interpreted either way, I thought the context made it pretty clear what they meant
My bad. Thanks for the correction.
No worries
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