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   BeamMeUpScotty to All   
   Re: If Barring White People From Getting   
   28 Sep 22 10:26:17   
   
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   From: NOT-SURE@idiocracy.gov   
      
   On 9/27/22 5:58 PM, Lock Them UP! wrote:   
   > In article    
   >  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Democrats have crossed the line.  Time to start the cull.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Why are so-called progressives determined to enact policies that   
   > pit lower class groups against one another?   
   >   
   > The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) hosted   
   > monkeypox vaccine pop-up clinics in the city’s South of Market   
   > region earlier this month. A flyer for the event, posted on the   
   > SFDPH official Twitter account, stated that in order to be   
   > eligible for the free shot, participants must “belong to one of   
   > the following priority populations: Black, Latinx, Indigenous,   
   > Person of Color, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, or a Current Sex   
   > Worker (all genders and orientations).”   
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   >   
   > The department’s recent budget was nearly $2.4 billion. Despite   
   > being local to San Francisco, SFDPH derives well over half of   
   > its revenue ($1.2 billion) from state and federal taxes.   
   >   
   > Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 states that “no person   
   > in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color,   
   > national origin, handicap, religion, or sex, be excluded from   
   > participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to   
   > discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal   
   > financial assistance.”   
   >   
   > How are the actions by SFDPH not in violation of this law?   
   >   
   > Defying Logic   
   > California has always been at the bleeding edge of   
   > progressivism, San Francisco even more so, and I could   
   > understand if the eligibility were granted solely on the basis   
   > of sexual orientation, given that data published by the   
   > California Department of Public Health (CDPH) show monkeypox   
   > cases are overwhelmingly isolated to LGBT people, with gay and   
   > bisexual males accounting for more than 90 percent of statewide   
   > cases. But why include the racial requirement?   
   >   
   > According to the CDPH dataset, cases in whites far exceed those   
   > found in people of other skin colors, with whites representing   
   > 34 percent of statewide cases, whereas cumulative cases in   
   > African Americans, Asians, and American Indians account for just   
   > 19 percent. Morality aside, barring heterosexual white people   
   > from receiving a free shot is not supported on statistical   
   > grounds.   
   >   
   > Thankfully, the spread of monkeypox is unlikely to become a   
   > crisis, with .01 percent of California’s population having   
   > reported a case and only one death in the entire country. Thus,   
   > few are likely to be affected by this minor instance of   
   > discrimination. That being said, the action by the SFDPH is not   
   > an isolated incident.   
   >   
   > Race-Based Care Elsewhere   
   > In the latter half of 2021, as alternative Covid-19 treatments   
   > such as Paxlovid and monoclonal antibodies became widely   
   > available, some states created “Covid risk-factor scores” to   
   > calculate an individual’s medical risks and prioritize treatment   
   > for patients with the highest scores. States such as Utah and   
   > Minnesota added a racial element by awarding risk points for   
   > those of “non-White race or Hispanic/Latinx ethnicity.”   
   >   
   > After a lawsuit in New York brought a similar law under   
   > scrutiny, Utah and Minnesota removed ethnicity from their list   
   > of Covid risk factors. Despite this, the SFDPH continues to   
   > march on with an even more restrictive policy, given there is no   
   > priority granted to the elderly or those with medical ailments.   
   > Hypothetically, if a 70-year-old straight white man with a   
   > preexisting health condition were to show up to the South of   
   > Market clinic, according to the department’s flyer, he would be   
   > turned away.   
   >   
   > Certainly, some ethnic groups as a whole have experienced a   
   > higher overall Covid mortality than others. However, this is not   
   > due to vulnerabilities inherent to race and is instead a   
   > consequence of economic disparities. An income threshold would   
   > be more sensible.   
   >   
   > Housing Discrimination   
   > Just this past August, a student housing co-op at the University   
   > of California, Berkeley made the news when it was reported by   
   > the New York Post that the co-op’s house rules stated, “White   
   > guests are not allowed in common spaces.” One mixed-race   
   > resident’s white father was purportedly prohibited from entering   
   > the house.   
   >   
   > A representative of UC Berkeley said in response to the matter,   
   > “it is not campus operated. This property is operated by a   
   > private landlord, and it is not the role of the campus to   
   > comment on what private landlords are ‘allowed’ to do.” Quite a   
   > laissez faire attitude from the university that believes that   
   > “becoming anti-racist is a core tenet of the American creed.”   
   >   
   > While the entity that owns the housing complex, Berkeley Student   
   > Cooperative, is not affiliated with the government nor the   
   > university, it is filed as a 501(c)(3) organization, meaning   
   > it’s exempt from federal income tax. Yet another example of   
   > federally subsidized racism.   
   >   
   > These ideas are unnecessarily divisive and unscientific,   
   > afflicting lower-income white men and women the most. Why are so-   
   > called progressives determined to enact policies that pit lower   
   > class groups against one another?   
   >   
   > Achieving equity by imposing repressive means on the   
   > “privileged” classes is not a virtuous pursuit. If you decrease   
   > the quality of health care for one group without necessarily   
   > increasing it for another, then what have you really   
   > accomplished? If equity means a lower standard of living for   
   > everyone, then I want no part in it nor do I, as a San Francisco   
   > business owner, want my taxes funding it.   
   >   
   > https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/26/if-barring-white-people-   
   > from-getting-the-monkeypox-shot-isnt-racism-what-is-it/   
   >   
      
   It's Black Supremacy Terrorism.....   
      
   The FBI needs to investigate the roots of that terrorism.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
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