Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Wed 05/28/2025 View Tue 05/27/2025 View Mon 05/26/2025 View Sun 05/25/2025 View Sat 05/24/2025 View Fri 05/23/2025 View Thu 05/22/2025
2022-07-27 -Great Cultural Revolution
New York health commissioner demands WHO rename 'racist' monkeypox
[PostMillennial] Ashwin Vasan, the 44th Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, wrote a letter to the World Health Organization demanding that the monkeypox virus be immediately renamed, citing "racism" as the primary reason.
Posturing for the local audience, because the target isn’t interested — though they will make conciliatory noises...
"We're calling on @WHO to act immediately to rename the 'monkeypox' virus. We have a growing concern for the potentially stigmatizing effects that the messaging around the 'monkeypox' virus can have on vulnerable communities," Vasan said in a tweet on Tuesday with the letter attached.

"NYC joins many public health experts and community leaders who have expressed their serious concern about continuing to exclusively use the term 'monkeypox' given the stigma it may engender, and the painful and racist history within which terminology like this is rooted for communities of color," the letter reads.

Vasan states that the continued use of the term "monkeypox" would reignite "traumatic feelings of racism and stigma" for "Black people and other people of color, as well as members of the LGBTQIA+ communities."

Related: Biden administration estimates almost $7 billion needed to fight against monkeypox outbreak
Posted by Fred 2022-07-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 I suppose calling it gaypox is a bridge too far.

We already have 'smallpox' so maybe this one could be 'mediumpox'. That way, neither monkeys nor gay men will feel stigmatized.
Posted by SteveS 2022-07-27 00:24||   2022-07-27 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 "You expect me to live like a monk?!?"
The monkeypox fumes, in a funk.
"NO! Mannerly silence,
Unbroken, is violence!
Act up! Shake a fist
And insist: COEXISTENCE!
Demand that our betters
Add 'M' to The Letters!
We gotta be us,"
Blurts the pox, spurting pus,
"And our sexual preference
Is THEM! No more deference!"
- A virus desirous of junk
Posted by Pearl Spuling3206 2022-07-27 02:30||   2022-07-27 02:30|| Front Page Top

#3 If you think the word ‘monkey’ has racial implications, you are a racist.
Posted by Ebbaise Brown5939 2022-07-27 03:35||   2022-07-27 03:35|| Front Page Top

#4 This racist stereotype goes back to 1933. It simply must be stopped !

Posted by Besoeker 2022-07-27 03:40||   2022-07-27 03:40|| Front Page Top

#5 And that's the most racist anti-racist thing I've ever heard. He needs to have his lights punched out by a black man.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-27 06:12||   2022-07-27 06:12|| Front Page Top

#6 "Move these deck chairs over there, crewman..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-27 06:36||   2022-07-27 06:36|| Front Page Top

#7 

Alternative lifestyle induced POX (A-LIP)
☺
Posted by NN2N1 2022-07-27 06:58||   2022-07-27 06:58|| Front Page Top

#8 The wages of sin?
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-27 07:00||   2022-07-27 07:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Owner of Manhattan gay club backed by Billy Porter and Zachary Quinto 'plied underage patrons with booze, allowed people to have sex in public, only wanted white customers and told staff NOT to confiscate date rape drugs', lawsuit claims
Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-27 08:49||   2022-07-27 08:49|| Front Page Top

#10 America will have biggest monkeypox outbreak in world within days: Cases in the U.S. surge to nearly 3,500
Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-27 09:23||   2022-07-27 09:23|| Front Page Top

#11 How is this racist? There are monkeys in Africa, it's true. However, they are also found in Asia and South and Central America.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2022-07-27 10:35||   2022-07-27 10:35|| Front Page Top

#12 Gave a blue screen moment with that, "How come when monkeys live all across the world you first think Africa?"

I"m still leaning Buttmonkeypox.

Owner of Manhattan gay club backed by Billy Porter and Zachary Quinto 'plied underage patrons with booze, allowed people to have sex in public, only wanted white customers and told staff NOT to confiscate date rape drugs', lawsuit claims

Yes, but were they wearing masks?
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-07-27 11:10||   2022-07-27 11:10|| Front Page Top

#13 Monkeys appear naturally on every continent except North America and Antarctica. How is that racist again? Oh, if it doesn't instantly bring a negative mental picture of whites it must be racist.
Posted by ruprecht 2022-07-27 11:46||   2022-07-27 11:46|| Front Page Top

#14 News and Obsever - Man reports seeing 7-to-8 foot tall creature walking across rural road in Georgia


North Ga. real estate taking a dip. Now we know why.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-07-27 12:11||   2022-07-27 12:11|| Front Page Top

#15 Brittaney Griner freed?
Posted by Frank G 2022-07-27 12:18||   2022-07-27 12:18|| Front Page Top

#16 White libs projecting their unadmitted racism.
Posted by KBK 2022-07-27 12:39||   2022-07-27 12:39|| Front Page Top

#17 Racism, especially against black people runs deep in the Indian psyche. Ashwin Vasan may be born there, but he is a hindoo, Indo American likely raised with a civilizational complex seeing the negroid person as sub-human. He may hide it, play the liberal to get ahead, but inside he's likely more racist than the whitest white supremacist.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-27 13:00||   2022-07-27 13:00|| Front Page Top

#18 Asian murder hornets was renamed earlier this week because of woke privilege.

Now Giant Northern Hornet
Posted by Lord Garth 2022-07-27 13:08||   2022-07-27 13:08|| Front Page Top

#19 Re #17: Dron, IIRC Mahatma Ghandi had a VERY negative attitude towards African blacks.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2022-07-27 13:27||   2022-07-27 13:27|| Front Page Top

#20 Japanese city under attack by violent monkeys: 'They are so smart'
Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-27 13:57||   2022-07-27 13:57|| Front Page Top

#21 [grainy clip of bigfoot doing Midler mince]

A veddy unhappy young yeti
Of south Appalachia was Eddie.
"I'd rather be Bette!"
So he went to the vet:
"Lord, I'm bored. Make me chased...
But not yet! Doc, make haste!"
"Brace yourself, Ed."
"Okay."
["Cut!"]
And later that day...
"He's a little effete."
"And you can't beat his meat."
"But the rest we shall eat."
"Shoot already!"
Posted by Pearl Spuling3206 2022-07-27 14:28||   2022-07-27 14:28|| Front Page Top

#22 Misgendered in Georgia? The March to the She?
Posted by Pearl Spuling3206 2022-07-27 14:30||   2022-07-27 14:30|| Front Page Top

#23 #20 'They are so smart'

[cool Jap jazz... orderly monkeys riding streetcar behind Dodes'ka-den guy]
Posted by Pearl Spuling3206 2022-07-27 14:39||   2022-07-27 14:39|| Front Page Top

#24 Anthropologically speaking, racism is ingrained in Asian society worse than anywhere. Did you know some casteist slurs are deeply embedded in Sanskrit and Hindi, references to the inferiority of certain races a matter of 'historic fact' in hindooist philosophy? The Chinese and Japanese have similar cultural thingies. It was the Turks brought african slaves here, and later the Europeans, and all Indians imbibed from the phenomenon was, 'oh these things are Sub-Human maybe... because their masters treat them so' Because casteist segregation and untouchability were already a primary essential of the civilization itself, it was accepted as a normal. Gandhi was a Brahmin, he must've had a proper Brahmin education aside from the English one. Naturally the bias came easily to him. But he realigned his views with the Africans as he grew older. And with all colonized societies in fact. After all he was subjected to the same treatment the black man was, even though he was a successful lawyer. Gandhi did some activism against apartheid in s Africa too, and later MLK drew inspiration from Gandhi's peacefull... whatever.

It took our own society centuries of laws and reform and we're still not at total equality mentally, but at least all parties want to get there. It has only these opên söciety types and other Marxist bastards been raking up the past here and preaching the hatred for past injustices, since the early 90s. It's the inherent belief in the hindu mind, that some races are just inferior that no amount if education can purge. And some bastards are happy to perpetuate that stereotype by inserting ideas if 'revolution' through crime disguised as a lashing out for historic inequality. And that is the root of these troubles.

All I know is Moses' wife was black, an Ethiopian, and Gawd was havin' none of the yammering behind her back so he put some plague on Aaron's wife or something. And that settles all questions. I may have that muddled a bit, sorry...

[stumbles around looking for Bible, remembers aah it's also in the dadgum phone now!]
Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-27 15:12||   2022-07-27 15:12|| Front Page Top

#25 Did anyone ever considered that what idiots Americans peoples and idiots sociologists are calling racism is a natural law, that protects society , from cultural balkanization
Posted by ACA JOE 2022-07-27 22:31||   2022-07-27 22:31|| Front Page Top

#26 Us vs Them, however each is defined. Racism is nothing more than another Them.

The history of civilization is a broadening of the definition of Us. It’s my understanding, though I could be wrong, that by Roman empire times, Us was anyone who managed to become a citizen, regardless of birthplace or skin colour.

Aca Joe: just because the world is full of idiots does not mean they’re right, merely that they are numerous.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-27 23:34||   2022-07-27 23:34|| Front Page Top

09:27 Warthog
09:11 Mercutio
09:07 AlmostAnonymous5839
08:52 Matt
08:24 Matt
08:20 SteveS
07:43 Procopius2k
07:42 BrerRabbit
07:42 Procopius2k
07:39 Procopius2k
07:36 Procopius2k
07:35 Procopius2k
07:34 trailing wife
07:31 Procopius2k
07:30 NN2N1
07:22 NN2N1
07:18 trailing wife
07:14 Richard Aubrey
07:10 NN2N1
07:09 Besoeker
07:03 NN2N1
06:58 NN2N1
06:58 Besoeker
05:28 Whiskey Mike









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com