Thread: MSNBC:Amid swine flu outbreak, racism goes viral

Amid swine flu outbreak, racism goes viral
Anti-immigrant hatred spreads on talk radio, Web sites



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Malkin scapegoats immigrants for flu spread
April 28: Michelle Malkin claims that the spread of contagious disease is a result of “uncontrolled immigration.â€

The illegal aliens really can not be blamed for the swine flu epidemic but screening and quarantining entrants makes sense. Of course the illegal alien border jumpers are not being processed. The mainstream media does not blame the illegal aliens for anything.

Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, called such comments “racist and ignorant beyond the pale...

That is a racists remark.

Notice the reporter censored her by cutting her statement off. We all know that is in reference to skin color. "pale skin"


Freedom of speech is not designed to protect the person that might get their feelings hurt or get upset. The Constitution does not grant any citizen protected feelings.

If you get angry or upset, that is your personal responsibility to control, not the speakers.

And for all of those people out there trying to use the words of someone else to defend their weak and outrageous position, if you don't like what you are hearing, then turn it off.

The truth of the matter is that someone can be a cold hearted racist and they can tell you what they think about illegal aliens and legally speaking it does not matter. The hater's feelings have nothing to do with illegal aliens disobeying our laws and encroaching on our rights to have those laws upheld.

In fact, there are no laws against being a racist. None. If people want to be racists, they have every right to do so. Being ugly to someone or calling them names is not against the law.

In essence, the person that wrote this is justifying lawlessness by attacking a lawful act.

Grow up, get real and quit listening, if you don't like what is being said.

Dixie

[b]“What we have seen is that the anti-immigrant groups are using this to shamelessly to promote their agenda,â€

Another similar story from the Boston Globe:

Panic and hate can be viral, too
May 2, 2009



ANOTHER DANGEROUS contagion is accompanying swine flu as it makes its way through the country: the spread of ugly invective aimed at Mexicans, and xenophobia more generally about the outside world. Calls to close the border with Mexico, kill massive herds of pigs, halt international trade, or quarantine people with dark skin are not supported by science and should be called out for what they are: paranoia.

On Thursday, talk-show host Jay Severin was suspended by WTKK Radio for referring to Mexicans as "the world's lowest of primitives" and other, more juvenile slurs. He is hardly unique in this strain of bluster. Nationally syndicated talk-show host Michael Savage speculated that Mexicans could be human weapons of germ warfare, set loose into America by our terrorist enemies. A Houston city councilor blasted a local hospital for even admitting the little boy who died from the virus - the only confirmed death so far in the United States - because he was visiting from Mexico.

In Egypt, the government ordered the slaughter of some 300,000 pigs, inflaming tensions between the Muslim government and the Christian minority that includes almost all the pig farmers in that volatile country. (Muslims do not eat pork.) This even though the World Health Organization is adamant that the virus is not foodborne and that no one has been infected through contact with pigs.

Closing international borders won't help contain the virus and could hurt, because it can slow down trade in vaccines and goods needed to treat a pandemic. And there's a generalized misunderstanding about scale that inflates the threat of the new strain. In an ordinary year, flu causes about 36,000 deaths in the United States. So far, out of 140 confirmed cases in the United States as of yesterday, the swine flu has caused one.

Naturally, cautions should be taken. In Lowell, the two boys who contracted the flu after visiting Mexico on a family vacation were right to stay home from school, and the Harvard dental school was wise to shut down its clinic and classrooms there while several suspected cases are confirmed.

But there are so many more important things to be concerned about that this new flu scare has brought into relief: the fact that 43 million Americans still don't have a healthcare provider to advise or treat them if symptoms occur, for just one example. Pointing fingers and stoking passions about "others" may satisfy a need for scapegoats. But Americans can do more to stay safe by simply washing their hands.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/edito ... viral_too/

Ya know....MAYBE if the MEDIA didn't hype this up and whip people into a frenzy over this swine flu, then a LOT of this so called paranoia would not be happening!!!!!!!
I swear the media is not only an enemy of the people they are supposed to be informing, they are also thier OWN worst enemy!!!!

They try to scare the hell out of everyone, then rebuke us for reacting to it!

is it any wonder the papers are going under?????

Originally Posted by Richard

The illegal aliens really can not be blamed for the swine flu epidemic but screening and quarantining entrants makes sense. Of course the illegal alien border jumpers are not being processed. The mainstream media does not blame the illegal aliens for anything.

actually they can be blamed. Look at that handidandy map of the number of cases in each location. Now if you take that data, compile it and run it against the data for estimated number of illegal aliens from latino nations you are going to find a statistically significant linear relationship, the relationship between travel to mexico and the spread of the disease is linear but comes out as non significant for U.S. infections.

that means that there is a large chance (say around 97%) that illegal border crossers are the cause of the spread. while this doesnt mean we need to be "xenophobic" or "racist" it does mean we need to control our borders better.

furthermore when a person LEGALLY enters the nation we know from whence they came and where they are going. In the event of a pandemic outbreak this would allow us to find these people and test them to see if they are sick with the disease that originated in their home area and stem the infection.

Otherwise we just do what we are doing now, watch it spread across the USA from hot spots like Houston, LA, Austin, San Francisco, Dallas and New York.

Also please note: states that recently passed harsh laws pertaining to illegal aliens (arizona and georgia) show very few signs of the disease compared to most other states.

SickNTiredInSoCal wrote

They try to scare the hell out of everyone, then rebuke us for reacting to it!

Yep, all part of the 'Divide and Conquor' agenda to end the USA as we know it. I believe this flu was fabricated in Mexico and exported to the USA as a means of creating divisiveness. There is nothing that any one of us should be putting past these criminal globalists. They will use any means necessary to bring down the Constitution. Once the USA falls to globalism, the rest of the world will go without a hitch. The real problem isn't the illegals or the flu,

IT IS OUR CURRENT ADMINISTRATION IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE POWERS THAT BE WHO NOT ONLY OWN THE MSM, BUT ALSO DICTATE TO THAT ADMINISTRATION!! ENFORCE OUR EXISTING IMMIGRATION LAWS YOU TRAITORS!!
They won't because they know those laws work.