Cystic fibrosis too 'white' for Ottawa fundraiser

[WillowTree]

Joanne Laucius, Canwest News Service
Published: Tuesday, November 25, 2008
OTTAWA - The Carleton University Students' Association has voted to drop a cystic fibrosis charity as the beneficiary of its annual Shinearama fundraiser, supporting a motion that argued the disease is not "inclusive" enough.

Cystic fibrosis "has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men" said the motion read Monday night to student councillors, who voted almost unanimously in favour of it. The decision caused heated reaction and left at least one member of council calling for a new vote.


Cystic fibrosis too 'white' for Ottawa fundraiser




so just like Christmas, now Cystic Fibrosis is not inclusive enough! Fucking crazy assed liberals..

 

[William Joyce]

The real disease that seems only to affect whites is political correctness.

It's far more lethal than any other disease I can think of.

We need a cure.

 

[jillian]

She was quick to rebut the premise of the racial and gender assertions posed by the motion:

CF affects males and females equally, although the health of girls is more severely compromised, and in past years, young women with CF have tended not to survive as long as young men.
CF affects Caucasian populations, primarily. Caucasian populations include people from South America, Arabian countries, Israel, North Africa and populations from the Indian sub-continent, such as people who live in or originate from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
In North America, we find that North Americans of African origin, native Canadians, and people of Chinese origin can also be affected by CF, although cystic fibrosis is less common among these groups.
Emphasis mine. The key, "Caucasian" is not limited to "white people," and primarily women, not men, die younger from the disease.

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