Current mood:	S-M-R-T
Entry tags:	internet doctors, jiggawha?, schools, squid brains, university: now anyone can play!

Welcome to the "Least Intelligent Student Union in the Country"
The student council at Carleton University in Ottawa has made a shocking discovery*: Cystic Fibrosis only affects white men, and is therefore not an "inclusive enough" disease to raise money for. Needless to say, this causes a leeeetle backlash.

In response, the person who originally made the motion to remove CF from their charity list is "currently not able to live happily." How sad. :(

ETA: *And by "shocking", I mean "completely false".

(Read comments) - (Post a new comment)

	atreyu 2008-11-29 01:29 am UTC (link)
	Can you explain it to me? Because all I can see from it is 'this only affects a certain population, so we won't care' which... doesn't sound good in any way. And maybe that is what they meant, I'm just having a hard time seeing anyone saying that while not trying to be assholes. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	llama_treats 2008-11-29 01:33 am UTC (link)
	What makes it even more inane is that it doesn't affect only a certain population, so it's lose-lose all the way 'round. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	atreyu 2008-11-29 01:35 am UTC (link)
	They certainly win the douchebag award with each new detail that comes out. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	caito 2008-11-29 02:05 pm UTC (link)
	But it does only affect a certain population. Cystic fibrosis only affects people who happen to have cystic fibrosis. Sheesh. [Insert unintelligible keyboard mashing here.] (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ecchaniz0r 2008-11-29 04:06 pm UTC (link)
	SPLUTTER Thank you, this made me laugh extremely hard. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ninwhore 2008-11-29 01:37 am UTC (link)
	I think what they meant was 'it doesn't effect a large enough group of people so we'd rather give the money to different (And local?) charities.' They just worded it horribly. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lady_ganesh 2008-12-02 04:33 am UTC (link)
	Well, it's good to know that even diseases get to have popularity contests! (Reply to this)(Parent)

crysiana
2008-11-29 02:01 am UTC (link)

The base assumption is that diversity is a good thing, and representing all people in all areas is a good thing. Which is fine if you're talking about, say, a food bank that does its job and makes sure that regardless of race or ethnicity, everyone gets a proportional amount of food/resources. When you apply it to disease, you look like an asshat, because you are.

When you clearly have no idea how the disease works or what caucasian means, that just makes it infinitely worse.

(Reply to this)(Parent)

(Read comments) -