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“Shouldn't this be about the pandemic?”: blurred subject boundaries at the edges of history (COVID-19 blog no. 20)

“Shouldn't this be about the pandemic?”: blurred subject boundaries at the edges of history (COVID-19 blog no. 20)

The death of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the iconic scene of Edward Colston toppling into the river in a satisfying parallel to the slaves thrown overboard from his ships to drown in the Atlantic are pressing. They have their own force, which compels us to talk about them.