Posted on 07/31/2022 6:49:54 PM PDT by grundle
Tucker Carlson has been accused of homophobia and being cruel after joking about changing the name of monkeypox.
On his Thursday night show, the Fox News host joked about the decision to change the name of the disease as cases continue to be concentrated among the gay community.
In early June, a group of scientists, many based in Africa, issued a position paper calling for a name change for the disease to avoid the negative impact it was having on people from different communities.
"We propose a novel classification of MPXV (Monkeypox Virus) that is non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing and aligned with best practices in naming of infectious diseases in a way that minimizes unnecessary negative impacts on nations, geographic regions, economies and people and that considers the evolution and spread of the virus," the paper read.
Carlson also shared a clip from his show on his Twitter page, where he said that, due to a popular vote following a poll, monkeypox will now be known as "Schlong Covid."
"Monkeypox is about the coolest name for a disease, 'can't come today I've got the monkey,'" Carlson said.
"But they are changing the name because of racism or something. Well for once, we don't know who they are and we are not going to allow it.
"We are going to change the name this time, we are going to do it with the public's help because democracy is real.
"So we had a vote, there was no ballot harvesting, you can trust our counting and the new name for monkeypox is now officially, and we are declaring it, Schlong Covid.
"That won our audience election result with about 40 percent of the votes.
Other names that were offered in the vote included Hunter Hives, Midterm Variant and Adam Schiffilis.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Newsweak would be laughing their arses off if Colbert said it.
More hypocrisy.
Gee, I wonder if there have been any “clinical studies” on how this terrible communicable disease might be avoided, and if monogamy were one of those solutions.
Won’t be holding my breath, though, because there ain’t no money in monogamy.
Mail-In Pox
or to have some pervert heads exploding and call it, Male-In Pox
Bidet’s Disease
Electoral Dysfunction
“PoofterPox”?
So, in typical fashion, half a dozen woke leftists are spastic about a conservative’s comments, and the essence of the article is that most of the world is apoplectic about it.
I’ll tell you what: LET’S ALL BE OFFENDED! WE MOSTLY ARE, ANYWAY!
It should be named after the cross-dressing nutjob Assistant Secretary of Health.
HomoMeasles.
“Hunter me bendover”?
The best thumbs up I have ever seen. I will use it. Thanks!
Maybe we should call it UFO-pox.
After all, aliens have been doing anal probes on humans for centuries!
They can call us deplorable, Hitler, irredeemable, crazies, and WE CAN’T CALL LIBERAL PETS ANYTHING?
No, it doesn’t work that way.
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