You say it's one sliver of the story and then jump to white privilege like some kind of lunatic. Are you Native American now? Are you going to pretend to be offended about a discussion about smallpox transmission for the sake of some made up Native American audience in your mind? Ridiculous.
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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
Individual racists. FFS.
It's clearly noted that while the effectiveness of the infected blankets that they absolutely did give to natives is questionable, the massacres and starvation caused to the natives was extremely integral in the spread of smallpox.
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And that's fine to note and discuss, but that's not what you led with nor was it something that came up in conversation.