"So we gonna start treating rich white people like we did Africans?"
I mean, the score is like 600 to 4 in the Measles vs. Ebola game and we ain't had half the hysteria and vitriol at the rich white folks that ain't vaccinating their kids as we did for some poor Africans who got Ebola because there's no vaccine or cure for that shit.
It's only fair, right?
Like, I should be able to refuse to send my kid to school with a white kid whose mom drives an X5 and shops at Whole Foods because, well, you know how those people are.
I should be able to massively generalize rich white folks because, well, because.
5. "also, we have to acknowledge that some doctors and scientists are nuts" In response to Reply # 0
Every anti-vaccination article quotes some doctor or researcher who doesn't believe in vaccinating his or her kids. These people don't have any special insight that the rest of the medical community lacks. They are nuts who happened to go to medical school.
11. "Aiight, here we go... " In response to Reply # 9
Ebola was never a real threat to Americans, but Americans acted like Ebola was in or on any and everything African.
Measles are a real threat and the people who are choosing not to vaccinate are typically upper-middle class/wealthy white people who willfully ignore the risks their actions cause.
If we're going to give an entire continent a hard time over an imagined threat, are we prepared to give real people a hard time over a real threat?
13. "Were you in a coma last summer?" In response to Reply # 12
When schools in Georgia wouldn't let kids from Kenya enroll and when muhfuckas in Congress were trying to advocate for a travel ban for West Africa?
People were up in arms about anything African. Countries that didn't even have Ebola were getting the shaft. There were some exchange students from a whole nother part of Africa that were denied enrollment in school because of Ebola.
AND DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO GET EBOLA?
Meanwhile, we've actually had a real domestic debate over the merits of vaccination and vaccination won. Unfortunately, there's a segment of our population in America that doesn't believe that and now we've got a Measles outbreak to show for it. But no one's demonizing them the same way Africans got demonized over Ebola.
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