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2026-06-25 16:10 UTC

When I asked people why they were angry, I was surprised by the ones who were willing to explain. Apparently their problem was with the core concept of deworming people. "You don't deworm a human, you deworm a dog." Except... you do deworm humans. The largest charity that treats parasitic worms in humans worldwide is called "Deworm the World". These people only associated the term with animals because they lived privileged enough lives not to have to worry about people being dewormed.

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@BathysphereHat@mastodon.online 2026-06-25 16:14

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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