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Fundraiser For "White Male" Illness Dropped
gubachwa writes "The student association at Carleton University in Canada recently voted that Cystic Fibrosis was a charity unworthy of receiving money raised during orientation week fund-raising activities. The reason behind the decision, as given in the motion on which the student association voted, is that Cystic Fibrosis 'has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men.'" I'm speechless.
everyone's gotta die *shrug*
I have the weird feeling that this is a case of a well played advertisement campaing in order to _get_ funds...
1 - Start fundraiser
2 - Stop fundraiser with a controversial topic like white rascism
3 - Start sending apolligies to the mainstream media saying that they are stopping the fundraiser
4 - Watch the cash flow after getting tons of publicity
Do i need to put a (???) and (Proffit)?
DON'T PANIC.
They weren't locking anything out, and they don't have any problem with funds being raised for CF, even if it were true that it only affected white men.
The point of the decision was simply this: they wanted their orientation week fund raising to benefit the various communities to which their students belong. If CF were, in fact, a white man's disease, and given that their students are not all white men, it follows that funds donated to CF are not benefiting the various communities to which the students belong, but rather only a subset, therefore CF is not a good candidate for this particular fund raising event.
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." -- Albert Einstein
But you can't send the progressives, the real racists (excuse me "positive" racists, sorry again "positive discriminators") to anti-racism class. It would look bad you see. People might wonder who the real racists are, and once they start thinking for themselves it is all too clear who is racist and who's not. Can't have that when these universities are filled with extreme racists, the more "progressive" the more racist, can we ? The people might demand ... you know ... change ...
I'm going to violate Godwin's law. The "progressives", the semi-lefties (communists in denial, who "hate russia") were exactly the people who put you-know-who in power, who filled his ranks, who killed Jews for him. Positive discrimination, the term was used even then. The endlosung started out as nationwide healthcare. In the beginning (that would be 1935 or-so) that was even 100% correct. Of course, the "progressives" had other plans.
I like to say that the specific progress "progressives" are after is closing the hole between (obviously involuntary) abortion and (mostly obviously involuntary) euthanasia.
OK, let's be fair. What they did was incredibly stupid, and I'm glad that the student body rightfully opposed it, but it wasn't racist. They weren't discriminating against white men, they were being extremist everything-must-be-inclusive-of-everybody PC. It wasn't they were being racist, they were trying to do the opposite. The problem of course is that we fight diseases to cure PEOPLE regardless of who they are. Trying to choose some "representative disease" that affects everyone to avoid being "discriminatory" is just ridiculous, which is why what they did was stupid.