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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
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Views: 4394
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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#94. To: Jethro Tull, christine, twentytwelve (#0)
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.
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"
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#98. To: Artisan (#94)
Replies to Comment # 98. I'll let others explain why or what that phenomena is
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