• ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    Krackers explaining why it’s not their century long looting and forced austherity that made African countries poor

  • Whenever someone tells me that “Mosquitos are evil for killing kids in Africa” I always have to remind them that these same mosquitos exist all over the world, what the rest of the world doesn’t have is the extreme level of European parasitism that fucked the continent so hard, a tiny bug can kill so many people.

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      9 months ago

      You are right about the economic side, but there are different species of parasitic insects in different places and what diseases they are capable of carrying varies, which accounts for some of how we have seen the damage of European parasitism manifest.

      • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        9 months ago

        europe used to have malaria, but it was eradicated. i wonder why similar efforts have not been as successful in africa… hmm