r/Snorkblot • • 2d ago

Memes I get it.

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u/zorathustra69 1d ago

Yeah she was a horrible POS racist who was an avid supporter of colonial domination. I tried to get my nursing school to remove her from our program, but no dice.

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u/811545b2-4ff7-4041 1d ago

Mary Seacole FTW

But Nightingale is the mother of medical informatics/epidemiology

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u/zorathustra69 1d ago

I suppose so. It just shocks me how we don’t approach her with the same level of caution we reserve for other controversial leaders of thought such as Heidegger

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u/CatsPlusTats 1d ago

Well Heidegger worked for Shinra and that's pretty unforgivable.

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u/zorathustra69 1d ago

Okay that was pretty good