• the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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    18 days ago

    Would it help if we rebranded smallpox as “the Eurasian disease”?

    Anyway, it wasn’t my intention to blame anyone. I called it the American disease because it came from the Americas. I made sure to point out that it was rapists who brought it to Europe, so I don’t really care for the way I was characterized. I don’t think there was nearly enough there to accuse me of victim blaming.