Anonymous
7/26/2025, 5:36:09 AM No.17872790
> Florence Nightingale is considered the founder of modern nursing.
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> Her work as a nurse during the Crimean War caused her to create sanitation principles that forever changed healthcare.
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> Yet she supported genocide if it meant that the British Empire could expand their reign.
What
> Also was a raging racist writing that Indigenous people were inferior, and their culture barbaric. She said that imposing British culture and customs on people was the right thing to do, even if it cost them their lives.
Huh.
> She was steadfast in her belief of the supremacy of white Christian culture. By her own accounts, Nightingale considered Indigenous peoples to be inferior, and the British state to be a “civilizing” force.
> Believed cleanliness was a sign of superiority, and believed that Indigenous customs went against her ideas of cleanliness.
> Defended the deaths of Indigenous people at schools and hospitals, saying it was a necessary part of progress.
"“...would be simply preserving their barbarism for the sake of preserving their lives.” Florence Nightingale on imposing British culture (1863)
"Every society which has been formed has had to sacrifice large proportions of its earlier generation to the new conditions of life arising out of the mere fact of change," Florence Nightingale
Good
> Her work as a nurse during the Crimean War caused her to create sanitation principles that forever changed healthcare.
Nice
> Yet she supported genocide if it meant that the British Empire could expand their reign.
What
> Also was a raging racist writing that Indigenous people were inferior, and their culture barbaric. She said that imposing British culture and customs on people was the right thing to do, even if it cost them their lives.
Huh.
> She was steadfast in her belief of the supremacy of white Christian culture. By her own accounts, Nightingale considered Indigenous peoples to be inferior, and the British state to be a “civilizing” force.
> Believed cleanliness was a sign of superiority, and believed that Indigenous customs went against her ideas of cleanliness.
> Defended the deaths of Indigenous people at schools and hospitals, saying it was a necessary part of progress.
"“...would be simply preserving their barbarism for the sake of preserving their lives.” Florence Nightingale on imposing British culture (1863)
"Every society which has been formed has had to sacrifice large proportions of its earlier generation to the new conditions of life arising out of the mere fact of change," Florence Nightingale
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