What they’re saying is calling it “the American Disease” because Europeans raped the natives of the Americas, sounds like you’re blaming the natives for the disease
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.
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What they’re saying is calling it “the American Disease” because Europeans raped the natives of the Americas, sounds like you’re blaming the natives for the disease
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.