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2026-06-25 16:14 UTC

I think some of the people who were angry were people who were poor by the standards of their own countries (which is still a significant hardship), but not by global standards, who assumed that the statement that many impoverished people worldwide have worms was an insult. Some of them were people who weren't poor, but who made the same assumption. They seemed to think that acknowledging parasitic worms in humans meant that I was calling poor people dirty.

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@BathysphereHat@mastodon.online 2026-06-25 16:19

In this case, I didn't even do anything wrong. People were looking to get mad, so they mocked me for talking about how to help with an ongoing global humanitarian crisis, because they read what I said in bad faith and ignorance. But it was hard to have that perspective on it when so many people were treating me like I'd done something horrible.

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