Ok, yesterday I saw this article and thought to myself. Really?
As the swine flu outbreak continues spreading, an Israeli health official is making waves by saying the name should be changed to “Mexican” flu, because the reference to pigs is offensive to Jews and Muslims, who consider pigs unclean and forbid the eating of pork products.
For me, the dumbassity (yes, it’s now a word – deal with it) is in the following words:
“the reference to pigs is offensive to Jews and Muslims”
This is especially the case when one take a brief moment to say “Oh, yea… because calling it Mexican flu isn’t offensive to anyone”.
I mean, really people.
Jews and Muslims do not even eat pork, so what the hell is the issue? By this logic, saying pork, pig, or hogs should be equally offensive because Jews and Muslims cannot eat said products anyway. I’ve always had this issue with society trying to be overly politically correct.
In my opinion, this is one of those cases.
Well, I thought the dumbassity was only limited Israel at this point. Yea, sorry to say that is not the case. U.S. pork producers want the swine of out the name as well. Why do you think? Simply because their business is starting to take a hit.
“At a news briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack took pains to repeatedly refer to the flu as the “H1N1 virus.”
Here is an idea, let’s call it Pork Flu. No, Ham flu. Oh, wait, what about double bacon cheese burger flu. The reason the “swine” flu will stick is because people, well a number of people, have no ability to connect to H1N1. Anyway, people need just relax a bit.
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