I’ve been thinking that this reluctance to close the borders to potentially infected people is part of the hard-wiring the left received during the 70s and 80s (and beyond) in their college American history classes.
At the time, one of the most popular books on every American history reading list was a relatively brief tome called, “The Invasion of America” (Jennings). Among Jennings’ theses was the idea that during the first century or so of New World exploration by the Europeans, it is estimated that approximately 20 million native Americans died, not from wars with the explorers, but from diseases carried from Europe against which the indigenous population had no immunity.
Whether that 20 million figure is accurate, I don’t know. And I have never heard it adequately explained why the so-called “invaders” didn’t suffer from indigenous diseases for the same reason—a lack of immunity.
Whatever the truth of the matter is, an invasion of America through the transmission of viruses may be considered payback on the part of the Left. Our biological chickens coming home to roost, so to speak. Obviously we deserve to die because of what we, the white population of Europe, “did” to the indigenous people of America three centuries ago.
I’m not saying that the average left leaning individual believes that in any explicit sense, though, no doubt, some do. Instead it is merely a part of their intellectual DNA— white America deserves whatever it gets. That the carriers of this form of historical “payback” are from west Africa is just icing on the cake.
“an invasion of America through the transmission of viruses may be considered payback on the part of the Left”
You are 100% correct my friend. The useful idiots on the left think they are visionaries.
Meanwhile, they activate in themselves the very worst of human depravity—the call for genocide—but they’re too stupid to understand they’re digging their own graves.
white America deserves whatever it gets
That was the gem. There’s your answer.
I’m a member of the “indigenous population” (at least on my mom’s side), I don’t want to get Ebola any more than any other sane American does. The sooner we shut down the borders the better.
Also, Europeans did get diseases from the American Indians, though the effects weren’t equal in magnitude. The most prominent example of a disease crossing from indigenous peoples to Europeans is syphilis. Indians are mostly immune, but people of European descent aren’t.
Coming from a mixed race background, I have no idea whether I personally have an immunity to syphilis or not, but I’m not too eager to find out.
Oh, and the idea of getting “payback” for a disease that was accidentally brought here is absurd, so is the idea that Indians were deliberately exposed to smallpox in order to wipe us out. The history of what happened to the American Indian is sad enough without trying to turn anyone and everyone with white skin into a villain.