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Title: Racists Using Swine Flu As Excuse to Promote Hate
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URL Source: http://www.latina.com/lifestyle/new ... -swine-flu-excuse-promote-hate
Published: Apr 30, 2009
Author: Shani Saxon-Parrish
Post Date: 2009-04-30 20:05:37 by Jethro Tull
Keywords: None
Views: 4349
Comments: 133
The frenzy over swine flu has spurred another potentially deadly outbreak: racist hate-mongering against Mexicans and Mexican-American immigrants. Conservative journalists and scared American citizens are looking for someone, anything to blame for this still small global outbreak. With no proof to support his beliefs, California radio jock Michael Savage said, "Make no mistake about it: Illegal aliens are the carriers of the new strain of human-swine avian flu from Mexico." He also added that it would be a good idea to avoid contact with illegal immigrants, insisting that people who eat out are "morons who eat in restaurants with illegals all over the kitchen." Fox News columnist Michelle Malkin also weighed in with frightening commentary: "I've blogged for years about the spread of contagious diseases from around the world into the U.S. as a result of uncontrolled immigration." Rampant misinformation has even motivated the ALIPAC, or Americans For Legal Immigration, to ask Congress to shut down the U.S.-Mexico border in order to contain the swine flu. And talk show host Neal Boortz has gone so far as to suggest Islamic terrorists created the deadly flu strain and introduced it to Mexicans as a sneaky way to spread it to the U.S. "What better way to sneak a virus into this country than to give it to Mexicans....then spread a rumor that there are construction jobs here, and there they come," Boortz stated. Perhaps the scariest thing is that these ignorant people with large platforms aren’t feeling any repercussions from their comments. Why are certain public figures allowed to be so openly racist and hateful? Is it because many people find an odd comfort in placing the blame on a group they consider to be outsiders? Members of the Latino community are marginalized enough as it is, and this level of hate-talk is only making things worse. "It's a virus. Any of us can get it,” says Lalo Rios, a radio DJ in Reno, Nevada. “Closing the borders is not going to help. Pointing the finger at certain groups isn't going to help anything either.”
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#93. To: christine, Jethro Tull (#1)
You really need to read the Wiki page about him to believe it. He began years ago by supporting GA Gov. Lester Maddox, and claims to be a Libertarian who supports the Patriot Act! "Political schizophrenic" is the best I can offer to describe him. Perhaps he was chosen as the Southern operative in the Bob Grant-Joe Pyne-Rush Limburger tradition in order to occupy the extremist position so the puppeteers could establish the limitations of "acceptable thought and speech in America."
don't know if this article has been posted. -------------------------------------- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30467300/ Amid swine flu outbreak, racism goes viral Anti-immigrant hatred spreads on talk radio, Web sites By Brian Alexander msnbc.com contributor updated 9:46 a.m. PT, Fri., May 1, 2009 “No contact anywhere with an illegal alien!” conservative talk show host Michael Savage advised his U.S. listeners this week on how to avoid the swine flu. “And that starts in the restaurants" where he said, you “don’t know if they wipe their behinds with their hands!” And Thursday, Boston talk radio host Jay Severin was suspended after calling Mexican immigrants "criminalians" during a discussion of swine flu and saying that emergency rooms had become "essentially condos for Mexicans." That’s tepid compared to some of the xenophobic reactions spreading like an emerging virus across the Internet. “This disgusting blight is because MEXICANS ARE PIGS!” an anonymous poster ranted on the “prison planet” forum, part of radio host and columnist Alex Jones’ Web site.
Glory to God in the highest, and Peace to His people on Earth. Neither does this: That is an uneducated American bastardization of the the language.
is boortz a Freeper?
#94. To: Jethro Tull, christine, twentytwelve (#0)
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him"
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
#95. To: christine (#30)
this doesn't even sound like you!
If it were not for these "dick heads" America would not
of have declared a "war on terror" or passed the "Patriot Act".
This guy may be prowling 4um: |
Used Tires Amityville, Babylon, Lindenhurst
#96. To: Critter (#95)
Thanks moron
#97. To: IndieTX, Jethro Tull (#91)
There you go talking sense again. At least there will never be a Hutu or Tutsi Lobby.
Our sons should not die in third world hellholes for a "feel- good" agenda. Ever. Again.
Everything lasts and everything ends. Longer than our children could ever imagine, faster than we could ever imagine. Children are the stuff of life; god was right to deny us immortality.
#98. To: Artisan (#94)
No, I haven't seen that, thanks. IMO, this flu should be called the Mexican flu, just as the 1918 flu was called the Spanish flu. Points of origin are important for purposes of reducing the spread. I'm also not surprised the Internet, along with talk radio, is a target of the PC-Nazis. They're after our guns, speech and eventual freedom. As a side note to all this 'racism', *my* life experience has taught me that within each race a majority exists who thinks their own race is superior to that of others. I'll let others explain why or what that phenomena is, but as I say, that's been my experience and I'm fine with it. Government officials are also fine with it, as long as the group showing overt pride is from a minority class and not from a Northern European one.
#99. To: Jethro Tull (#98)
It's called "exceptionalism" usually promoted by those who think they are "Gods chosen"
I'll let others explain why or what that phenomena is
#100. To: robnoel (#64)
Voltaire was impressed by Britain's Constitutional Monarchy in comparison to the French Absolute Monarchy, as well as the country's support of the freedoms of speech and religion. You over simplify.
#101. To: Ferret Mike (#100)
For the record after doing a little late nite research Voltaire never said "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,this was penned by his biography Evelyn Beatrice Hall,Hall said that she paraphrased Voltaire's words in his "Treatise on Toleration," which includes such thoughts as:"Not only is it extremely cruel to persecute in this brief life those who do not think the way we do, but I do not know if it might be too presumptuous to declare their eternal damnation".
#102. To: robnoel (#101)
Thanks for the interesting factoid. Above is a Voltaire quote said to have prompted this paraphrase. Regardless of who penned these exact words, I agree it is in keeping with Voltaire's beliefs, and it is something I believe in very deeply. If one cannot respect others enough to respect their free speech rights, then why should anyone take such a person seriously? I sure don't.
Essay on Tolerance — "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too."
#103. To: Ferret Mike (#102)
On the matter of "respect" when it comes what Jay said I defer to “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
If one cannot respect others enough to respect their free speech rights, then why should anyone take such a person seriously? I sure don't.
#104. To: robnoel (#103)
Heh, which would mean Afrikaners should be sequestered in remote 'homelands' and given internal 'passports' and no citizenship as they did to others in the Nationalist Party Apartheid days. They should also be given schools that teach in a tongue not native to them without the capacity to educate all of them in an inadequate fashion. The days of their day in the sun were despicable and I am glad that it is over. (And I presume you realize I am making a point, not stating an advocacy.) Amandla Awethu
#105. To: Ferret Mike (#104)
Could make the same point in relation to American Indians....
#106. To: Ferret Mike (#102)
If one respects and supports the Anti-Defamation League (as you have on many occasions), one has to wonder at your supposed love of free speech.
If one cannot respect others enough to respect their free speech rights...
#107. To: robnoel (#105)
You know it. Custer had it coming. Where do you think I learned the empathy needed to know the truth about Apartheid. Both the south of Africa and the Americas suffer from the application of doctrines such as that laid out in the Doctrine of Discovery.
#108. To: bluegrass (#106)
Hi bait boy. How's it shaking?
#109. To: Ferret Mike (#108)
Are you ready to throw in the towel on the ADL yet or are you just going to keep stonewalling?
#110. To: bluegrass (#109)
As far as I am concerned, you engender no dialog or desire to converse in using this tired vehicle to try to bait. In other words, fuck off.
#111. To: Ferret Mike (#110)
You mirror the tactics of your mentors, Shlomo.
#112. To: christine, pinguinite, Jethro Tull, randge, HOUNDDAWG, farmfriend, scrapper2, Lady X, Esso, DeaconBenjamin, bush_is_a_moonie, Cynicom, Rotara, Prefrontal Vortex, James Deffenbach, TwentyTwelve, Rupert_Pupkin, PSUSA, litus, wbales (#106)
Weasel Mickey: still up to his old tricks.
#113. To: bluegrass (#111)
Those people are your role models, not mine. Worry about yourself Rabbi, not me.
#114. To: Ferret Mike (#113)
You claimed that the ADL engages in 'good works'. They appear to be your role models.
Those people...
#115. To: bluegrass (#114)
Your material is dated, and this has been pointed out to you. So, if you believed in Santa Claus as a child, you still do? You bait to no effect, give it a rest.
#116. To: Ferret Mike (#115)
Are you now claiming that the ADL is anathema to Liberty?
Your material is dated
#117. To: Ferret Mike (#115)
Eff the Bankers bluegrass posted on 2009-05-02 12:59:13 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Did you notice how the poster took the position of his/her post to packrat you?
#112. To: christine, pinguinite, Jethro Tull, randge, HOUNDDAWG, farmfriend, scrapper2, Lady X, Esso, DeaconBenjamin, bush_is_a_moonie, Cynicom, Rotara, Prefrontal Vortex, James Deffenbach, TwentyTwelve, Rupert_Pupkin, PSUSA, litus, wbales (#106) Weasel Mickey: still up to his old tricks.
#118. To: robnoel, ALL (#101)
Charles Lindbergh Speaks on a United European Race [ Neautrality and WWII] "Our bond with Europe is a bond of race and not of political ideology. It is the European race we must preserve, political progress will follow. Racial strength is vital, politics a luxury. If the white race is ever seriously threatened, it may then be time for us to take our part in its protection..., to fight side by side with the English, French and Germans, but not with one against the other for our mutual destruction." <..>
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
#119. To: grace_is_by_our_lord (#117)
Indeed. The tyranny of the majority is a staple of the Free Republic type in forums. This tactic is of no consequence, as it earmarks a major aspect to how little point or relevance this person's baiting has. He is a Chihuhua trying to hump a Great Dane. it is of little consequence or importance as to how he inappropriately seeks to try to entertain himself.
#120. To: Ferret Mike (#115)
I can't believe you voted for Barry Sotaro. What were you thinking?
#121. To: Ferret Mike (#119)
I see you are slammed or regarded as only capable to support say, the US Communist Party on a frequent basis by many posters. Why is that?
#122. To: TwentyTwelve (#120)
No such person exists. That is like saying my name is Michael Bond because that is the last name of the man who married my Mother after my Dad died in 1960.
#123. To: grace_is_by_our_lord (#121)
That would be because his left leg is 8" shorter than his right one, thus tilting him leftward.
I see you are slammed or regarded as only capable to support say, the US Communist Party on a frequent basis by many posters. Why is that?
#124. To: Jethro Tull (#123)
I see you are answering for Ferret Mike. And you are attempting to make jokes. Where are your credentials to answer for anyone?
#125. To: grace_is_by_our_lord (#124)
It's 2:30 EST, aren't you close to another rum run?
#126. To: Jethro Tull (#125)
Not knowing what you otherwised infered, I was about to have some coke.
#127. To: grace_is_by_our_lord (#126)
One intoxicant for another. One assaults your liver, while the other blows up your precious few remaining brain cells. It's your life, pal o' mine, but please, do the majority of your posting before you whiten your nose.
#128. To: Jethro Tull (#127)
I have no idea what you are blabbering about. Having a coke on a nice Saturday while chit-chatting with a mad-man whom makes not only assumptions but also professes some pathetic belief in government is kinda fun. I should try this more often.
#129. To: grace_is_by_our_lord (#121)
Ask them. That is a baseline, one size fits all bait I ignore. Why should I let them put me on the defensive over some group or economic theory I do not believe in nor support? That assertion is their problem, I don't need to make it mine.
"I see you are slammed or regarded as only capable to support say, the US Communist Party on a frequent basis by many posters. Why is that?"
#130. To: Ferret Mike (#129)
What sort of theories do you believe? Do you consider methods of intervention about private markets under direct government control? Aren't there ramifications for lessor or more control within a dynamic economic environment such as the the USA, wherein its economy represents about 25% of the total world?
Why should I let them put me on the defensive over some group or economic theory I do not believe in nor support?
#131. To: Jethro Tull (#127)
Precious few is correct. LOL!
One intoxicant for another. One assaults your liver, while the other blows up your precious few remaining brain cells. It's your life, pal o' mine, but please, do the majority of your posting before you whiten your nose.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
#132. To: grace_is_by_our_lord (#128)
No one expects you to know that buck. You don't even know what you are blabbering about.
I have no idea what you are blabbering about.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
#133. To: Jethro Tull (#123)
Wrong Plasma, the legs are groovy, but me handlebars do stick in the wheel in the pointing left position time to time, but that's the breaks. ;-D
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