University cancels cystic fibrosis fundraiser because disease only affects white men

hotair.com ^ | November 25, 2008 | Allahpundit

[Free ThinkerNY]

It only kills people like Dean Barnett. Not nearly progressive enough.

Cystic fibrosis “has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men” said the motion read to student councillors, who voted almost unanimously in favour of it…

Carleton students have fanned out across the city near the beginning of the school year to raise money to fight the illness for years. But according to the motion read Monday night to student councillors, “all orientees and volunteers should feel like their fundraising efforts will serve the their (sic) diverse communities.”…

“I think they see this, in their own twisted way, as a win for diversity,” said Mr. Bergamini. “I see it as a loss for people with cystic fibrosis.”…

[Right Wing Assault]

Pure BS. Don’t let anyone go to this school. They are morons. I had a young female relative die of complications of CF.

[MaxMax]

There's enough of us around to continue funding the welfare gravy train.
So what if a few of us die off. /s

[dbacks]

Finally, a group I can support with PRIDE. That’s where my money will go.

[Jack Hammer]

Heterosexual White males - the new ni**ers.

[murron]

My little niece, who died when she was 10, had cystic fibrosis. She didn’t die of that, but she was very sick with CF.

[M203M4]

Student Associations - yesterday’s student yearbook committee,
today’s brainless campus twits,
and tomorrow’s journalists and politicians

[feedback doctor]

Sports writer Frank Deford’s daughter died of CF in 1980. He wrote a very sad book about it called “Alex: The Life of a Child.”

[blam]

"It’s not a wonder, however, when decades of education have been teaching that these things are irrelevant and unworthy of acknowledgement. “Dead white men” and all."

Yup. Not 'acting White' Black males are valued more.

[mrsmel]

And we should devote our efforts to funding it and diseases like it, and let others worry about the diseases that primarily affect the “priviliged minorities”. They can make up from the government ( through our taxes of course,but at least we can still send the message) the money they lose as we direct it elsewhere. Why should they always get to avoid reaping what they sow?

[mrsmel]

And IMO, the thug-acting gangsta wannbe contemporary young black or white men are of a lot less value than the great historical artists and explorers of the past. I think think they know that they can’t live up to it so they dismiss it out of a sense of inferiority. Sour grapes from talentless inferiors. All their rapping and screaming will never have the sublime universality of Mozart, and their sorts aren’t in the same league as the exploits of the men who explored the Poles or took the first deep-sea submersible dives. Those pioneers had a special kind of bravery.

[ApplegateRanch]

This ignorance is hard to take at face value, from a university:

risk-factors

Your risk is also greater if you're of Northern European ancestry. In that case, you have a one in 29 chance of carrying the gene. Among other ethnic groups in the United States, Hispanics have a one in 46 chance of carrying the gene, blacks have a one in 65 chance and Asian-Americans a one in 90 chance.

Prevalence among sexes is also about equal, though females may tend to die at a younger age from it.

[garandgal]

Prevalence among sexes is also about equal, though females may tend to die at a younger age from it.

I know three people with CF; one little girl, two guys. The girl has a family history...two of her female cousins died in their early twenties.

One of the guys is a HS friend of my husband...he's still going strong at near 40; he doesn't even attempt to take care of himself. Actually, he always assumed that he would be dead by now, and has literally lived his life as though each day could be his last...as in, party on!

[Yaelle]

Where the heck is Carlton University anyway? What evil morons.

Any disease that kills anyone so horribly deserves to be fought. Why are we so racist to even be looking at the skin colors or genders of disease victims? Nazis killed any Jew they found because to them, Jews were not human. Libs are half the way there already.

Sounds like the powers that be at that school, walking across a battlefield of war wounded, would step on the whites and males to get to the minority victims. I guess now whites have become “infidels” and worthy of death and disease, to liberals worshiping their god of diversity uber alles.

The only person I know with one CF gene is Hispanic, not that it should ever matter to ANYONE.

[fanfan]

[ZULU]

Well said.

[trillabodilla]

I proudly donate to “sixty five roses” foundation. (That is how they teach children who have it, to say it.)
My friend Jane has this disease and is about 50. She is sick all the time, though. Her sister is very sick with it and she can’t even go around her. Her grandson is a carrier.

[Clive]

It was the student council, not the University itself that indulged in this ideological idiocy.

Here is a statement by the governor, posted in the Media section of the university's web site:

November 26th, 2008

President's message regarding recent decision by CUSA (Ottawa) –

Carleton University President Roseann O’Reilly Runte issued the following message today to the Carleton community regarding a recent decision by the Carleton University Students’ Association:

Dear Members of the Carleton Community,

I am writing to share with you my personal regret that the student association adopted a motion to discontinue support for the Shinerama program. This is a program to which Carleton students have contributed nearly a million dollars over the years. It has been very successful and I myself enjoyed volunteering with the students at the South Keys Mall this fall. It is, however, the students’ right to donate their time and funds to the charity of their choice. We have wonderful volunteers on campus and I am sure that they will continue their efforts to contribute to society and to those in need.

The motion which was approved by the student association contained language which was not appropriate and which has raised considerable concern. I know that Carleton students are fine young scholars who wish to be responsible and considerate. I am sure that they did not intend to offend by the preamble to their motion, but I am also sure that they now understand the effects of that language. I understand that they will be revisiting this issue and that the president of the student association will be putting forward a motion to reconsider the matter. I am convinced that our students will do the right thing and take the appropriate course of action.

I thank you for your messages, your patience and understanding, as well as your concern. I also wish everyone an excellent final week of the semester.

Sincerely yours,
Roseann O’Reilly Runte
President