Privilege and Principles
The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
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What Are the Sumptuary Laws?
A, my problem is that there are just all sorts of other kinds of privilege in this society, and in any society. You know, one of the hings fascinated by our sumptuary laws. They were regulated, not just in europe, but in ancient rome an n you know, for centuries in china, and japan. A, i think the aztecs all, look it up, only the aristocratic classes, or certain segments of the elite could drink chocolate,. Even though you dontthike chocolate was kind of the currency of the aztec civilization. Only caesar could wear purple. I a think christians had to wear gray and couldn't ride
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