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Don’t You Know Who I Am?@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

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What’s wrong with the name Amherst?
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  Jeffery Amherst used biological warfare in the form of smallpox blankets on natives.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffery_Amherst,_1st_Baron_Amherst
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  Probably because it’s named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffery_Amherst,_1st_Baron_Amherst who wanted to exterminate indigenous people and used smallpox blankets to try to wipe them out.
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    He’s small pox blanket guy?! Yeah they need a name change.

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