Yes, because justifying racism is just what the world needs, at *any* time.
Friday, May 1, 2009Posted in: Azteclady Speaks, Racism
It is not surprising, really, that assholes with a political agenda will seize all sort of excuses to further their hobby horse.
Today we have motherfuckers like Michele Malkin saying such things as:
“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,” conservative columnist Michelle Malkin wrote on her Web site. “9/11 didn’t convince the open-borders zealots to put down their race cards and confront reality. Maybe the threat of their sons or daughters contracting a deadly virus spread from south of the border to their Manhattan prep schools will.”
Oh yeah, right. Considering that it was students on vacation in Mexico who fell ill, perhaps tourism to Mexico should be banned too. And since Malkin and their ilk can’t trust that other countries would be as discriminating as themselves in choosing who they let in through their borders, perhaps the smartest *cough* course of action should be to ban any and all travel outside the US.
And all imports–who knows what nasty crap may come with all those nasty fruits from Chile or that coffee from Puerto Rico (a commonwealth, NOT a federal state, after all). And since exporting goods would also mean being in contact with dirty foreigners, that also should stop. Immediately.
Yes, indeedy. Isolationism is THE answer to all of the US’s ills, social, economical, of public health…
You know what, fucktards?
Because what you are doing, right now? It’s the fucking equivalent of yelling, “FIRE!!!” in a crowded theater.
To all the intolerant assholes of the world: may you receive as much charity from your fellow human beings as you give them.
Amarinda Jones
May 1
7:32 pm
Wankers
Lori
May 1
7:35 pm
The whole thing is so ridiculous. I heard this on the news yesterday and almost dropped dead. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/28/michele-bachmann-links-sw_n_192493.html. Really, politicians would partisanize anything. It makes me sick. (Is partisanize a word?)
HelenKay Dimon
May 1
7:36 pm
Good grief. But the worst of the week is NC Rep Virginia Foxx who stood on the House floor and said Matthew Shepard’s murder was a hoax. Honestly, I hate people sometimes.
Shiloh Walker
May 1
8:55 pm
um…wow. People make my head hurt.
Tuscan Capo
May 1
8:58 pm
If it helps contain a health hazard I have no problem with temporarily shutting down a border. If the Canadians start saying no Americans I’d understand that, too. And remember, the first reported case turned out to be a Mexican boy and the strain of this flu in Mexico has different characteristics than the cases so far confirmed in the US. If I had the flu and walked into Mexico I’m only adding to the stress their health officials and medical facilities are having to deal with. I don’t believe in isolationism, but I do feel restricting travel back and forth between countries during times like this is probably a wise move.
AztecLady
May 1
9:10 pm
Tuscan Capo, temporarily closing the borders–any borders–to contain a health threat? Hell, yeah.
Blaming “illegal immigrants” who, in the words of another asshat from the article, one doesn’t “know if they wipe their behinds with their hands!” for the cases in the US?
Yes, because poverty and lack of hygiene are a matter of national identity and not lack of opportunities and education. /sarcasm
Lolita Lopez
May 1
9:34 pm
I’m always amused at how a person’s true colors are shown during crises. And the thing that gets me is the normal every day version of the flu kills tens of thousands of people every year but you don’t see people shrieking to close the borders and airports for that one…
Anon76
May 1
9:50 pm
Yeah, border closing when stuff happens like this, okay fine, including watching incoming travelers from other countries for symptoms. I’m in the US and understand totally if Canada or other countries keep a close eye on passengers traveling from here to there. And vice-versa.
But to use this as a tool to promote racism…hhelllll no!
Obviously these twits have no idea what goes on in “American” restaurants where their twit kids work (or even the actions of some adults working there for that matter.) I’ve seen some pretty gross stuff, including where a few kids were picking on what they considered a “nerdy” younger boy, and proceeded to take a huge spatula and stuff freshly whipped butter down his backside. Said spatula went straight back into that 40 lbs of whipped butter.
I’ve seen people come to work with hands so dirty you know they haven’t been washed in days…and their hands were the cleanest part of them. After a bathroom trip, hands still as dirty.
I worked at a Chinese restaurant for years and faced all kinds of taunts about the food. “How can you work there, they serve cat.” Trust me in the fact that I watched trucks roll in with beautiful cuts of beef, pork, and fresh seafood. Nary a once saw a cat, nor a dog for that matter. An occassional duck hanging to dry, but nothing more.
I HATE hate mongers. That chick needs a serious enema treatment to loosen her up.
Tuscan Capo
May 1
10:04 pm
AztecLady, I didn’t say I agreed with the woman’s reasoning, or lack of as the case may be. If I vocalized an opinion of her rationality here I might say something that wouldn’t sound very nice, so pardon me if I refrain myself – pretty please.
AztecLady
May 1
10:07 pm
Gah, TC, I misread your first comment!
Yeah, rage is blinding me right now. My apologies.
Mari
May 1
10:16 pm
Tuscan has a good point. I wouldn’t be averse to closing borders in those circumstances. However, communicable diseases can come from any country. Does anybody remember Mad Cow disease from the UK about 10 years back? We closed off imports of beef and their economies took a hit. Even “civilized” countries like the UK are not immune.
Karen Scott
May 1
10:16 pm
I really despise Michelle Malkin, she’s a pretty hateful person. Between her and Sean Hannity, they give a bad name to conservatives.Like they needed anything else to make them look worse. Effing moose.
Tuscan Capo
May 1
10:21 pm
Its cool, AL 🙂
Eve Vaughn
May 1
10:33 pm
Michelle Malkin is herself the daughter of former illegal immigrants who came to the US have their baby. The very thing that made her an American is what she’s fighting so hard against. It was okay for her family but not for other people who want a better life for themselves. Personally, I think her issues run a little deeper than the other conservative nuts she tends to associate with. She was the one behind the Dunkin Donuts smear campaign when Rachel Ray wore what Michelle called a scarf that looking like something associated with terrorism. It was just a scarf for crying out loud. Makes you wish she and the whole Faux News staff would take a long boat ride to oblivion.
Karen Scott
May 1
10:36 pm
By the way, Lolita is right on the money, influenza kills thousands every year, but nobody seems to worry about those stats so much.
AztecLady
May 2
12:05 am
Karen, I know! But hey, seasonal flu didn’t originate in one of those dirty foreign countries, did it?
Las
May 2
1:27 am
Michelle Malkin is the cunt (yeah, I said it) who wrote a little book called, “In Defense of Internment.” How AWESOME would it be if an Asian country attacked us and her ass got locked up?[/sarcasm] Seriously, I love it when people are forced to eat the shit they spew.
Yeah, I’ve loathed that woman for years.
And you know what makes this especially annoying? There’s not one decent reason for the hysteria over swine flu. Not that anything justifies Malkin’s level of hate-mongering, but if we were truly in the midst of pandemic it would be understandable. But it’s what, 100 cases in the US? And all the deaths have only occurred in Mexico. The strain that’s hit everywhere else isn’t anywhere near as virulent. So not only is she a hateful xenophobe and racist, she’s also really fucking stupid.
Lea
May 2
2:56 am
I really. Really. Really.
Hatedislike that woman!joanne
May 2
11:03 pm
This is actually textbook Michelle Malkin. She’s been earning her bread & butter from bigotry in all its myriad forms for years. Pay no attention to that woman behind the white sheet!
MichelleR
May 3
5:59 am
It’s a weird time to be a Michelle/Michele On the one hand, there’s the awesomeness of Michelle Obama, but on the other hand there’s Malkin and Bachmann. Blech, and Bachmann is a Minnesotan, too.
In case you’re not familiar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann
KristieJ
May 3
2:29 pm
It is astounding and frightening to me that there are people like this who have such a large sounding board. Doctors have been predicting for years now that the world is ripe for another pandemic and it seems to me with that kind of warning it could have started anywhere – the US, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, South Africa – just about anywhere!! The fact that Mexico is a large tourist haven helps spread the outbreak faster, but spread it was bound to do no matter where the original breakout started.
So for a group of blatant racists with media connections behind them to be allowed to use this as an opportunity to spread their vile hatred and racism is unconsionable.