The long and ugly tradition of treating Africa as a dirty, diseased place (Triple Bagger)

Washington Post ^ | 25 Aug 14 | By Laura Seay and Kim Yi Dionne

[SkyPilot]

Vivian Koshefobamu, a 45-year-old vendor, speaks in front of dried meat, at the Ajegunle-Ikorodu market in Lagos on August 13, 2014.

[SkyPilot]

This liberal propaganda piece was published by the Washington Post a little more than a month ago, but it is still listed in the Style section on current links (that's how I saw it). The authors twist themselves into knots to avoid the truth: Africa is a diseased, dirty, corrupt continent.

Given the current Ebobla crisis, this political cartoon sums up why the Obama administration and liberals will not support the banning of flights from Ebola infested African nations:

I flew all over the world as a military pilot. Europe, South America, Antarctica, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific, Southeast Asia, India, etc.

African nations, by far, were the worst. The worst corruption. The worst poverty. The most squalid living conditions. The dirtiest.

I was in places like Congo, Eritrea, Burundi, and Liberia.

I saw things that made me literally sick to my stomach. I saw violence, thuggary, bloodshed, and misery there.

And yes, disease.

Believe me, these places are not Vienna, Montreal, or Christ Church.

I cannot believe that liberalism is so far gone mentally that they cannot allow themselves to acknowledge reality.

You can also read the piece and see that one of the authors, Laura Seay, personally responded to many of the comments and defends her propaganda. It would be laughable if not for the fact that we are dealing with an Ebola epidemic breaking out in America today that could have been prevented if we stopped the political correctness.

Political correctness kills. Period.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Are those dried bats that lady is selling?

[Darksheare]

Ebolaphobics, all of us!
Embrace the ebola!
/ snark

[PATRIOT1876]

Africa is a dirty place.

We call ‘em as we see ‘em.

When was Truth outlawed?

Why does the Washington Post have as big a problem with reality as Al Gore?

[Darksheare]

"I'm president Brak Ubama, and I approve of this virus!"

[Genoa]

Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea are diseased places. Sorry.

[Vaquero]

When it starts being a dirty, diseased, zer0 breeding hell hole, I will treat it differently.

[JRios1968]

...treating Africa as a dirty, diseased place

Author thinks this is an inaccurate description?

[jsanders2001]

I’ve seen thousands of pictures brought back by missionaries who’ve lived over there for months at a time. Africa IS a dirty, disease ridden place. They live like they have for thousands of years and would have continued to live that way if not for the influence of Western civilization intervening. Many of the tribes people have cell phones but no shoes...lol

[Vaquero]

When it STOPS being a dirty, diseased, zer0 breeding hell hole, I will treat it differently.

Fixed it

[BuffaloJack]

The truth hurts and we are all going to die if we don’t abandon Vladimir Lenin’s political correctness.
Africa IS DIRTY and DISEASED.

[Black Agnes]

Looks like the head has a long skinny snout. Maybe some sort of deer or deer like creature. Or anteater?

[brownsfan]

This is why Obama wants ebola in America. Obama has a fondness for Africa, and he feels the west hasn’t done enough for Africa, especially with regard to ebola. Bringing ebola to America forces us to deal with it, and potentially find a vaccine.

[arderkrag]

No. Those are dried monkeys. Look at the spinal structure on the middle one.

[Norm Lenhart]

Resist, we much, the temptation to look down on the minority Ebolans.

I am calling on the GOP to embrace the idea of a world in which Ebolans shall full citizenship and rights as Americans. Fortunately, thus far, they are ahead of me on the issue.

[Kenton]

African nations, by far, were the worst. The worst corruption. The worst poverty. The most squalid living conditions. The dirtiest.

Sounds like every black-majority city right here in third world America.

[jiggyboy]

When you see somebody use “other” as a verb, that’s all you need to know.

[NorthMountain]

Looks to me like two ducks and a bat.

No guarantees as to how any of them died.

"Bush meat" means any meat that they find in the bush, living or dead, regardless of species or condition. They're (essentially) eating well-aged road kill.

[Darksheare]

Yeah, McConnell with his limp wrist hand wave to the CDC..

[angcat]

Ebola soup.