Comments by "Ray Purchase" (@raypurchase801) on "Psychological Rehabilitation Won't Work On Batman’s Villains" video.

FUN FACT: The word "villain" literally means a person who lives in a village. William the Bastard's Norman aristocracy regarded ALL the native English as criminal scum, hence "villain" came to mean "criminal". In modern French, "villain" translates as "naughty". (Regard this comment as cross-contamination from the Lotus Eaters recent podcasts about the Normans.)
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@nicolopez2181 Thankyou for explaining the word's origin in French. I was explaining the word's origin in English.
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@andrewelliott4436 (In mock-German accent) - "Sorry, I haff ein frog in mein throat".
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@chad_bro_chill Here's what isn't wrong. William the Bastard confiscated all lands from persons who supported Harold Godwinson. He gave those lands to his own knights and supporters. Nearly a thousand years later, most land in the UK is still owned by the descendants of those robber-barons.
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@matthiuskoenig3378 The word "slave" is derived from "Slav", because many of the slaves in the Roman Empire were taken from those parts of Europe where the Slavs lived. I've had persons of Slavic origin write angry comments, claiming I'm a liar. There is no better place to receive angry abuse than YouTube.
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@thevoid6818 Strictly speaking, our enslavers were Normans who occupied that part of France. William the Bastard died whilst campaigning against the king of France, burning villages and murdering as he went.
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@nicolopez2181 In Norman English, persons who lived in villages were called villains. Simple, end of. No dispute. The word "villain" later took on a different meaning.
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@nicolopez2181 THIS is the kind of discussion which Carl and his cronies should undertake! In Anglo-Saxon times, a house carl/karl was a professional full-time soldier and hard-ass, as opposed to the part-time soldiers who spent most of their year ploughing with oxen but owed a debt of military service to their lord.
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