Just Let The White Guys Suffer And Die
If you think the U.S. has cornered the market on hateful multi-culti think, think again. From a Canwest News Service story by Joanne Laucius, cystic fibrosis is "too white" for a bunch of Ottawa students to raise funds for.
(Of course, they're not only hateful, they're stupid, since, as a CF Foundation executive in the article notes, "CF is diagnosed just as often among girls as boys, although the health of girls deteriorates more rapidly" ..."It is commonly considered an illness that affects Caucasians, but that includes people from the Middle East, South America, North Africa and the Indian subcontinent.")
Laucius writes:
OTTAWA - The Carleton University Students' Association has voted to drop a cystic fibrosis charity as the beneficiary of its annual Shinearama fundraiser, supporting a motion that argued the disease is not "inclusive" enough.Cystic fibrosis "has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men" said the motion read Monday night to student councillors, who voted almost unanimously in favour of it. The decision caused heated reaction and left at least one member of council calling for a new vote.
Every year near the beginning of fall classes, during university orientation for new arrivals, students fan out across the city and seek donations from passersby. According to the motion, "all orientees and volunteers should feel like their fundraising efforts will serve their (sic) diverse communities."
Nick Bergamini, a third-year journalism student on the student council, said he was the only elected councillor present to vote against the motion. The decision is an example of campus political correctness gone too far, he said.
"They're not doctors. They're playing politics with this," said Bergamini. "I think they see this, in their own twisted way, as a win for diversity. I see it as a loss for people with cystic fibrosis."
The Shinearama fundraiser is carried out by students at about 65 colleges and universities across Canada. It has raised money for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for almost 50 years and Carleton has been participating for at least 25.
During orientation week this year, Carleton students, who have raised about $1 million over the years, raised about $20,000, said foundation chief executive Cathleen Morrison, who was surprised and dismayed by the student association decision.
...One of the councillors who voted in favour of switching the charity said Monday night that the information provided to the panel prior to the vote was factually incorrect, and he will be seeking support from other members to hold an emergency meeting to reconsider their decision. "After seeing all the reaction today, I definitely think it should be revisited and reconsidered," said Michael Monks, who represents Carleton's business students for the student council.
Um, even if it did benefit white guys, you can't figure out on your own that this is an evil position to take? How would it fly if you stopped supporting breast cancer research because it really only affects women?
Thanks, Jerry and Robert
Welcome to Canuckistan Amy. But at least, for once, there seems to be outrage.
Charles at November 28, 2008 5:42 AM
I guess I will put down my copy of Atlas Shrugged and start reading Moby-Dick. The more I look at this and the more I think the hunt for the "Big White One" in North-America is open.
Who is Ismael? ;)
Toubrouk at November 28, 2008 6:57 AM
Heh. I've been sick all friggin' week with the nastiest head cold I've ever had in my life *cough cough cough* *clears throat* *sneezes* ACK! I hate being sick! (#2 picked this up at school and decided to share. Wasn't that nice of her?) o.O
How would it fly if you stopped supporting breast cancer research because it really only affects women?
Funny you should say that. This past week alone, I heard of 2 guys that were diagnosed with breast cancer. One in my hometown, one in another part of the state.
I also knew a girl who lived down the street from us that had CF. She passed a few years ago.
Flynne at November 28, 2008 7:41 AM
I've started to notice how racism and sexism affects what I---a tall, white, educated male---can and can't say in polite conversation. And now their trying to kill us off, or at least shorten our time on Earth. Well, fuck them and the horse they rode in on.
Tyler at November 28, 2008 10:33 AM
Although Frederic Chopin is thought to have died from tuberculosis, some medical scientists have speculated that he really died from Cystic Fibrosis.
It's just super how these Carleton students would deny us musical genius and replace it with the appearance of racial diversity and inclusiveness.
Tyler at November 28, 2008 10:41 AM
"Cystic fibrosis 'has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men.'"
Yeah, fuck those white men! What have they ever done for me? I mean, besides paying all that income tax, sales tax, and property tax that lets me go to a public university at a fraction of the true cost. Oh, and all those white men who risked death and injury in the construction of the university's buildings. Then there's the white male engineers who forced their phallic machinery through the earth to dig the subway tunnel I take to school using my taxpayer-subsidized transit pass. And, let's not forget the evil white male farmers who exploited poor mother Gaia to grow the grain for my breakfast cereal. But, yeah, fuck those white men and their weak little fibrotic lungs. They've never done anything for me!
Tyler at November 28, 2008 10:58 AM
Sportswriter Frank Deford is white, and had a little girl who died of CF. He wrote a book about it.
Crid [cridcridatgmail] at November 28, 2008 11:20 AM
Hey look, another example of discriminating against white men in the name of "diversity".
Colour me surprised.
Factory at November 28, 2008 1:35 PM
who did they change the charity to?
farker at November 28, 2008 1:56 PM
I have Deford's book, and it's wrenching. (Especially given that little Alex might well have lived to grow up had she been born just a few years later; treatment of CF really has advanced in leaps and bounds in the last couple of decades.) Wonder what he thinks about this latest CF twist...
marion at November 28, 2008 2:16 PM
"who did they change the charity to?"
No one, as yet. The enlightened Student's Association is looking for a different, more "inclusive" disease to support next year. I hope the new charity, whatever it is, has the class to either take the money and then hand it over to the CCFF, or to reject it outright.
Martin at November 28, 2008 4:05 PM
Seriously, all I can do is laugh. Mostly at the fact that these people will be running things soon. God help us all.
momof3 at November 28, 2008 6:53 PM
They're obviously not creative thinkers. They should be raising money to ensure that CF, not to mention all diseases, afflicts everyone.
DaveG at November 28, 2008 7:03 PM
Since "diversity" is their main requirement for funding research on a disease, one wonders how they deal with requests from non-diverse diseases like sickle cell anemia.
Conan the Grammarian at November 29, 2008 4:35 PM
I note that the Student Association has now issued a "we're sorry you were offended" apologia. They still don't understand that they did something wrong. And the author of the resolution (a faculty member) has made it clear in subsequent interviews that his intent was indeed racist.
Cousin Dave at December 1, 2008 8:48 AM
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