I won't spend to long on this one because smarter people have already addressed the subject . . . However, reaction to the swine flu from ultra-right wing pundits has been typically disappointing and sad.
It seems that a great many people never learned one of the lessons of AIDS - Which was mainly that a virus has no politics. So while a great many racists are once again making life harder for Mexicans and Latinos on this side of the border . . . They're doing nothing but repeating the same divisive, ultimately futile and ugly mistakes made by so-called conservatives in the 80's who called AIDS the wrath of God against homosexuals until the virus started taking people en masse from all walks of life and now is a very real threat to heterosexuals as well.
Kansas City doesn't get off the hook in this instance either . . . Newsies were on the Westside looking for the Swine Flu only hours before it turned up in suburban Platte Coutny.
And here's a fact that's once again being overlooked in all of this swine flu coverage . . .
RIGHT NOW RICH, UPWARDLY MOBILE WHITE PEOPLE ARE SPREADING THE SWINE FLU FURTHER AND FASTER THAN MEXICANS EVER COULD!!!
C'mon . . . Let's look at the facts . . . Mexicans are great swimmers but there's no way that dreaded illegal Mexican immigrants made it all the way to New Zealand.
And dumb talk about border security providing protection against the Swine Flu is not only dimwitted political opportunism but also fails to understand that throughout history viruses and diseases have never respected walls, gates, checkpoints or any feeble human efforts to control the movement of poor, brown people.
Sorry, the fantasy that secure borders can stop disease would have the American public locked up like Howard Hughes in his later years and STILL not protected from all of the nasty bugs out there . . . It's hard for me to believe that hiding in a basement with tissue paper boxes on your feet and anti-bacterial lotion in one hand is the so-called "Conservative" vision for the United States . . . I've tried it, it's overrated.
Finally . . . I'm officially marking the end of the "pigs fly/swine flu" joke being anything close to clever . . . Time for current events humorists to step up their game.
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ReplyDeleteBurn them, burn them all! Bwahahahahahahahahah!
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with the above comment though. Ultra-anything on the political spectrum is ruining this country. But as we know, the squeaky wheel will get the the grease, so keep on flaming!
Hey Stupid, it's called the Mexican Flu for a reason.... Just like the Asian Flu, etc.
ReplyDeleteI saw the Mexicans coughing and hacking all over my food at the midtown MacDonalds.
ReplyDeleteWhen they brought me the food...I asked for my money back.
And got it.
But AIDS could have been stopped DEAD by quarantine...but it was not politically correct to do so.
Who ya kiddin?
Muni Court Hack
Calling it "the Mexican flu", is just a tactic put on us by the American Pork Assocation.
ReplyDeleteSad fact is, pigs already have a bad reputation. Look what people are called who LIVE like them! At least Tony depicted them in a fairly positive light with his angelic picture. Good for him. Always PC. Well, always PC about Mexicans, anyway.
Aids could not have been stopped by quarantine, are you nuts? Who created that misconception?
ReplyDeleteI think we should call it the Chiefs flu.
ReplyDeleteAt least then we would increase the likelihood of it becoming irrelevant and dying out in short order.
Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfucker. Pigs sleep and root in shit. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got enough sense enough to disregard its own feces.
ReplyDeleteBut I wonder how we can manage to pay more of our tax dollars to Astra Enterprises in connection with this terror!
ReplyDeleteAfter all in Kansas City, if there is a mess that will never get cleaned up, Astra Enterprises is there with their well manicured hands out and collect lots of money. Work? Not so much!
I thought the "swine flu" was only something that a chubby chaser could contract!
ReplyDeleteNow that is comedy my friend.
ReplyDeletePeople talk tough Tony, that is all.
ReplyDeleteThere aren't many people spouting this kind of stuff who would refuse medical access to a toddler who was the first victim of this disease in the United States. Let Lou Dobbs go guard the border and shoot women and children. His arguments are stupid and they only work in theory.
I don't notice any solutions from you. Please suggest some because preventing disease at the border sounds like a good idea to me.
ReplyDeletetypical blogger.
ReplyDeleteaids from doing it with a monkey, swine flu from mexicans getting busy with pigs. nice
ReplyDeleteLOL!!!
ReplyDeleteThere is a reason legal immigrants are required to have health checks.
ReplyDeleteTo get the people doing health checks sick?
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