Lol most people who wash meat are not going online to snarky-ass, uppity forums like this to get their cooking info. They're just doing it because that's how it was taught to them and they've never really run across information that tells them otherwise. Subsequently, these practices stem from decades of sociopolitical factors that breed an attitude that isn't going to go away just because someone put it in a Vox article. The read here, if Era could stop being Era for a second, would be to go "Oh, I understand why certain populations might do that" and then take the conversation from there.
Instead we have to suffer through pages of the indignation of a bunch of crackas who can't be bothered to wash their feet.