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Is there no end to Whitey’s atrocities? Never satisfied with the evil he has already committed, now he is giving poor People of Color arthritis. As investigative journalist Daniel Greenfield observed, “400 years ago it might have been witches. Today it’s systemic racism.” Indeed. If I tried to parody woke race-hustling by writing about someone claiming that the cause of arthritis is racism, even the Babylon Bee would reject it as too outlandish. But in its race-obsessed hysteria, the Left is nothing today if not outlandish.
Creaky Joints, “a digital community for millions of arthritis patients and caregivers worldwide who seek education, support, advocacy, and patient-centered research,” published an article Thursday entitled: “Study Suggests Systemic Racism Might Contribute to Inflammation.” Of course! There’s always a “study” ready to justify the latest fool idea that has become fashionable among Leftists.
This is the Left’s cult of intellectualism, giving the form of rational thought without the substance, so as to make Leftists more comfortable with their superstititions, hatreds, and hysteria by cloaking it all with an aura of intellectual respectability. In this case, the systemic-racism-causes-arthritis study is an elaborate house of cards built on numerous false assumptions and fallacies, most notably post hoc ergo propter hoc, that is, B followed A, therefore A caused B. As Sportin’ Life reminded us long ago, it ain’t necessarily so.
The Creaky Joints article leads off by asking: “How often are you treated discourteously or made to feel inferior to others? Are you regularly called names, insulted, or harassed? Do people around you act as if you’re dishonest or untrustworthy?” There are no doubt numerous white people who are frequently treated discourteously and made to feel inferior to others; who are regularly called names, insulted, or harassed; and whom others regard as dishonest or untrustworthy. But the article is anxious to focus in on Whitey’s crimes. “These questions,” it informs us, “are part of the Everyday Discrimination Scale. Scoring highly on it indicates that you’re routinely subject to unfair treatment, perhaps because of your race or ethnicity.”
That “perhaps” is then made to bear a huge amount of weight, as the article then immediately jumps to assuming that there are massive levels of racial discrimination in the United States, and that this is making the victims ill: “Regular discrimination can certainly take a toll on your relationships, job prospects, and mental health, and growing evidence suggests that it also has implications for your physical health.” Arthritis is just one of the results: “In fact, a recent study found that individuals who report high rates of discrimination tend to have higher levels of some inflammatory markers in their blood as well as higher levels of specific bacteria in their microbiome. These differences, in turn, might put them at higher risk for inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, among others.” Will Whitey never rest?
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PRCS says
As a 72 year old white guy, who can I blame my arthritis on?
gravenimage says
I was just about to ask the same basic question, PRCS.
somehistory says
It’s the faulth of bill gates.If the joint-destroying auto-immune disorder is the fault of a White guy, then he fits the “bill.”
“Awful Bioterror’ Could Annihilate Mankind, Bill Gates Says”
“Bill Gates recently told BBC that bioterrorism is the future threat we aren’t thinking enough about.
Interpol says the threat from bioterrorism is real and that criminals now have the capability to harm society.
The CDC believes anthrax could be the most likely weapon.
Bill Gates is sounding an alarm that hasn’t been ringing loud enough: the looming threat of bioterrorism.
In a recent BBC interview, Gates says that since we’ve started to think about climate change, “bioterror, which is really awful,” is the next thing to ward off, even if doing that is a bit ambiguous.
“Bioterror is a little harder to defend against,” Gates tells BBC, “because whoever’s trying to do it is [doing it] consciously and understands your defense system, so they can be trying to design around them.”
I imagine he smiled while talking of such things.
And one african nation has an outbreak of the marburg virus.
E T says
Amazing how many times the WHO and WEF freaks have mentioned Marburg in the last year – – these people are absolutely mad if they think they can control an outbreak. How many “modern day” drugs cause a certain amount of bleeding? Plant the seed of Marburg and I guarantee you will see fear like never before. Are they mad enough to go that route – – methinks so. Fear, fear, fear.
Crazy Schwab / Dr. Evil, recently mumbled about whoever wins will be master of the world. It is easy to see how life could totally spin out of control. Would anybody out there vouch for Gates’s sanity?
Keith O says
Arthritis is caused by racism?
HUH, and here’s me thinking mine was caused by 20 years in the infantry. Live and learn.
GreekEmpress says
If I’m Greek/Armenian do I get to blame mine on the Turks?
Keith O says
Hell yeah, I can’t see why not!
Scotsman48 says
Life these days is like living in an actual Monty Python Skit.
OLD GUY says
Just learned that men are now to be called sperm donor and a women is now and egg donor. My question is what is a sperm donor who has a vasectomy to be called?
There is no end to what the WOKE can do to language. Sorry all you woke I will stick to MAN, WOMEN, MALE, FEMALE, SIR, MA’AM, SHE,HE and the rest of the NORMAL gender words. If you want to be something else thats your problem.