From Andrew Bolt
David Warren on a new mixture of stupidity and ignorance:
Last Monday, the student council of Carleton University attracted much attention to their university and to the city of Ottawa—around Canada and the world—with their decision to cancel their annual Shinerama fundraising efforts on behalf of the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Their argument was that this disease afflicts ”white people and primarily men.” They would rather choose a charity that is more “inclusive.”
(Thanks to reader Perturbed of NSW.)
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That is just fine, unless you are afflicted by that particular disease. Have we really become this politically correct? It has gone way past the point of silly and into the absurd.
ReplyDeleteAnother case is the huge difference in publicity and fund-raising for breast cancer as against prostate cancer. Women's cancers are apparently much more PC.On a related but more amusing note, is this from the SMH:"Yesterday," reports Carol-of-no-surname, from Gladstone, in Queensland, "I purchased something from a local chemist. The docket had printed on it, 'Diabetes now available at…' [naming the chemist]. I read it a couple of times and couldn't believe what it said. Do I really want diabetes? No thanks." Well yes, but it could have said "Inoperable tumour - Xmas special". You got off lightly.
ReplyDeleteThis is nothing new - when Dad was still working - he got in trouble because lesbians didn't get AIDS.
ReplyDeleteAnd rightly so. How dare he be so discriminatory :) To fill in a few gaps, Rozina's dad was an actuary for an insurance company, and I guess it's a small step of logic to go from calculating risks to be actually being held responsible for them.
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