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Okay but like, how is this "anti-woke"? I'm not sure any "wokies" were raging against the term? Like was that a thing? I mean we still call it chicken pox? We call it bird flu? It seems like a name that was used originally/ colloquially, and even mpox isn't "really" the scientific name? Its just a colloquial handle.
idk. Much ado?
Dug a bit more thinking there would be a more technical term for it. Nope. Its specific epithet is Orthopoxvirus monkeypox. I think Monkeypox might be the more technically correct term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeypox_virus
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
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.
In the US it's racism the whole way down.