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Get domesticated, you cold idiot
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I saw the blanket and "ancestors warned me" and my initial first thought was FAR DARKER than domestication xD
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Ummm.. Context?
In North America, White Settlers attempted to kill First Nations people with blankets given as gifts that were infected with smallpox
edit: "During a parley in midst of the siege on 24 June 1763, Captain Simeon Ecuyer gave representatives of the besieging Delawares two blankets and a handkerchief enclosed in small metal boxes that had been exposed to smallpox, in an attempt to spread the disease to the Natives in order to end the siege"
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Well now I'm in the "people who know" side of the meme