The soppy liberal one-worlders who run the United Nations are at it again. The "progressive thinkers" at the World Health Organization, one of the supposedly more useful branches of the UN, has decided that the names we've been using to identify certain diseases are potentially offensive to certain people and... wait for it... certain animals.
So... according to an article in the Daily Mail, they've just released a list of guidelines for naming diseases in the proper, politically correct way. Why? Because, according to Dr. Keiji Fuduka, the org's Assistant Director-General for Health Security [Who comes up with these titles? Ed.], "We’ve seen certain disease names provoke a backlash against members of particular religious or ethnic communities, create unjustified barriers to travel, commerce and trade, and trigger the needless slaughtering of food animals."
The WHO guidelines warn us that "Terms that should be avoided in disease names include geographic locations (e.g. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Spanish Flu, Rift Valley fever), people’s names (e.g. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Chagas disease), species of animal or food (e.g. swine flu, bird flu, monkey pox), cultural, population, industry or occupational references (e.g. legionnaires), and terms that incite undue fear (e.g. unknown, fatal, epidemic)."
Got that? This is not funny! This is a serious problem! Mind you, not everyone agrees. The Daily Mail article quotes Prof. Hugh Pennington, a bacteriologist, as saying, "This won’t save lives. It comes under the heading of political correctness and I am very sceptical it will have any permanent benefit. As for avoiding upsetting animals, that is a load of rubbish."
Yes indeed. Politically correct rubbish. But Walt fears there are many more shitloads to come before the wave of suffocating politically correctness recedes.
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