"left wing bigots" is a wild take. In fact, it's beyond the pale.

Just so you know however, it is well established that we had a very large native population before European settlers arrived, and it's well established that smallpox killed a lot of people. The research here demonstrates that the numbers may be even higher than previously thought.

You may be right about the wild take, but I'm an ex-academic, so I am not completely ignorant of what I'm talking about.