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In reply to the discussion: If they can quarantine a visibly healthy nurse with no sign or [View all]uppityperson
(116,027 posts)22. Ebola does not care but the public does. Quick search gives me these incidents....
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/29/us/connecticut-school-ebola-lawsuit/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
http://time.com/3542955/senegal-kids-brothers-assaulted-ebola-bronx-tremont-school-new-york-city-pabe-amadou-drame/
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/21/cant-ebola-become-latest-racist-national-security-issue/
http://www.businessinsider.com/mama-tis-african-kitchen-changes-menu-2014-10
Connecticut girl barred from school amid Ebola fears (traveled to Nigeria)
http://time.com/3542955/senegal-kids-brothers-assaulted-ebola-bronx-tremont-school-new-york-city-pabe-amadou-drame/
Kids from Senegal Were Beaten Up in NYC by Classmates Yelling Ebola
Elizabeth Barber Oct. 28, 2014
Ironically, Senegal is Ebola-free and has been widely praised for its response to the disease
Two Senegalese-American brothers were assaulted at a New York City school by classmates who yelled Ebola at them.
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The boys were rushed to the hospital with severe injuries, the council said in statement.
Elizabeth Barber Oct. 28, 2014
Ironically, Senegal is Ebola-free and has been widely praised for its response to the disease
Two Senegalese-American brothers were assaulted at a New York City school by classmates who yelled Ebola at them.
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The boys were rushed to the hospital with severe injuries, the council said in statement.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/21/cant-ebola-become-latest-racist-national-security-issue/
Sixty miles southeast of Dallas, Navarro College earlier this month denied admission to two Nigerian students, not because they were diagnosed with Ebola but simply because they were from a country stricken by the disease. Never mind that Nigeria did a remarkable job in containing Ebola, went six weeks without new cases, and this week was declared Ebola free by the World Health Organization.
Such racial embarrassments arent confined to Texas. The week before last in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, a Guinean high school soccer player from Nazareth Area High School was subjected to chants of Ebola from opposing players on rival Northampton High Schools team. The chants left him in tears. Northamptons head and assistant coach have since resigned from their positions and disciplinary action against the heckling players is pending. Meanwhile, a few parents in Mississippi decided to pull their children from a middle school after discovering the schools principal returned from a trip to Zambia, a country nowhere near the Ebola outbreak.
Such racial embarrassments arent confined to Texas. The week before last in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, a Guinean high school soccer player from Nazareth Area High School was subjected to chants of Ebola from opposing players on rival Northampton High Schools team. The chants left him in tears. Northamptons head and assistant coach have since resigned from their positions and disciplinary action against the heckling players is pending. Meanwhile, a few parents in Mississippi decided to pull their children from a middle school after discovering the schools principal returned from a trip to Zambia, a country nowhere near the Ebola outbreak.
http://www.businessinsider.com/mama-tis-african-kitchen-changes-menu-2014-10
MaMaTi's restaurant forced to change its name over ebola fears, may go out of business
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You keep on repeatedly stating that it's clear she'll win in court, but that does not make it so.
branford
Oct 2014
#5
Exactly! Thank you for this. Your post is better worded than my similar one earlier.
uppityperson
Oct 2014
#4
Not really, and if you recall, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the internment.
branford
Oct 2014
#17
They'll haul your ass off while saying, "You look a little peaked this morning."
Major Hogwash
Oct 2014
#9
How close are we to "You look African, so you and your family are quarantined." nt
kelliekat44
Oct 2014
#15
Ebola does not care but the public does. Quick search gives me these incidents....
uppityperson
Oct 2014
#22
Since Obama is from Kenya, we've already crossed that line a looooonnnngggg time ago!!!
Major Hogwash
Oct 2014
#29
my god. we fuckin went thru this stupid with tsa nad patriot. we were fcukin cowards. i stopped
seabeyond
Oct 2014
#20
they have a right to quarantine, but it must be based on medical science, not political polls
magical thyme
Oct 2014
#24
We are nothing more than a society that answers TO, works FOR, and gets punished BY a government.
cherokeeprogressive
Oct 2014
#28
So you are wishing that they would violate an entirely different set of rights...
Oktober
Oct 2014
#32