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    2 days ago

    Alright Im gonna walk you through the mental leaps ive overhead my righty coworkers say, these are coming from their rational NOT mine:

    1.) Black people dont like being called monkeys 2.) I like pissing of black people 3.) There are scientists saying you shouldnt call it monkeypox, this is wokenonsense to protect black people that dont like being called monkeys 4.) Im gonna say moneky pox EVEN MORE, because i like pissing off black people

    Granted this is just like 3 especially awful guys at my place of work, but still

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      1 day ago

      I assumed it was also to place blame on other, lesser, dirtier countries since there’s no native primates north of Mexico in the Americas. But I guess we could go straight to racism.

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      Yup, this is what I’ve heard too.

      The crazy thing is that the real reason is pretty woke too (mpox is language neutral, while monkeypox is explicitly English) but learning the real reason behind something is antithetical to their belief system so instead they make up shit they think a lefty would say instead.