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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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cmv: No, you are not the granddaughters or the witches that were burned

Edit: Don't take my words literally, I don't actually think that it's one big ass family tree. Please just debate the actual statement, I can't debate whether or not I'm soapboxing or whatever it is. I'm not perfect and I have fallacies that I didn't previously know existed. I'm doing my best, but it's not helping when I have 20+ comments telling me that they think I'm to literal. I'm just one guy, I can't reply to all of these, and I won't reply to them because I don't want to copy/paste the same statement over and over again 

Modern witches claim that they are they descendants (in terms of heritage of beliefs) of the victims of the Salem Witch Trials. That is untrue. The Witch Trials weren't bad because men killed innocent witches, they were bad because innocent people were falsely accused of being witches and then killed. The idea is that they are part of a heritage or bloodline of stifled witches. Keep in mind that many random people were on the chopping block when it came to a witchcraft accusation. Men, women, children too. It wasn't a systematic ethnic cleansing of magic, it was a panicked slaying of normal people. Therefore, I believe that it is not possible for people to be preserving the legacy of witches that did not exist (at least in that time and place). This is not a claim that witches were never real.

My title is referencing a phrase that witches use, often in relation to overthrowing patriarchy. I think this statement takes away from the tragedy of the past event. It makes it seem more fictionalized, as if the people were some characters in a Disney movie.
gpt
You seem to be taking the idea of 'witches' very literally here.

The idea of the phrase 'we are the granddaughters of the witches that were burned' is that the 'witches' who were selected for persecution back then were just any women who were inconvenient, oppositional, outsiders, strong and independent, or threats to male power.  

Whether or not the persecutors of that time actually *believed* those women had magic powers and kissed the devil or w/e is irrelevant; *in practice* the people they called witches were any women that were inconvenient to the patriarchy, and so that's what the word 'witch' actually means.

And that's what it means in this context, basically:  you may have killed the revolutionaries of the past, but the revolution continues.  More or less.