The WHO will officially rename monkeypox over concerns of stigma and racism surrounding the virus that has spread to more than two dozen countries, @DrTedros says https://t.co/MKz4mXDwkx pic.twitter.com/hG0NuC2MTG
— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) June 14, 2022
I love it when liberals just decide to admit, completely unprompted, that they think black people are monkeys.
The World Health Organization will rename the increasingly spreading monkeypox virus after a group of scientists claimed the name could be “stigmatizing.”
“WHO is also working with partners and experts from around the world on changing the name of monkeypox virus,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced at a press briefing Tuesday.
“We will make announcements about the new names as soon as possible.”
Dropping the monkeypox label follows a letter from a group of 30 international scientists that wrote last week the “urgent need” to switch the name.
“Given the increasingly rapid communication of, and attention to, the international human MPXV outbreak, it is important to consider an appropriate, non-discriminatory, and non-stigmatizing nomenclature and classification of MPXV clades,” part of the letter states.
Viral clades are defined as other groups of organisms with the same genetic structure.
“In the context of the current global outbreak, continued reference to, and nomenclature of this virus being African is not only inaccurate but is also discriminatory and stigmatizing. The most obvious manifestation of this is the use of photos of African patients to depict the pox lesions in mainstream media in the global north. Recently, Foreign Press Association, Africa issued a statement urging the global media to stop using images of African people to highlight the outbreak in Europe.”
The scientists propose “a novel classification of MPXV that is non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing and aligned with best practices in naming of infectious diseases in a way that minimizes unnecessary negative impacts on nations, geographic regions, economies and people and that considers the evolution and spread of the virus.”
A WHO spokesperson said in an email to Bloomberg News that naming diseases “should be done with the aim to minimize the negative impact and avoid causing offense to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups.”
Why would they do this?
I think there is some truth to the claim that “liberals are the real racists.”
If conservatives think of black people when they hear the word “monkey,” they at least don’t admit it and say that things named after monkeys should have their names changed to protect the feelings of blacks.
Racism… towards monkeys?
— J.R.R. TolKee (@Jeremyakee) June 15, 2022
Stop trying to make monkey pox happen, its not going to happen. -Mean Girls
— THE NAKED PATRIOT 🇺🇸 (Top .01%) (@Bryan_Hawn) June 15, 2022
How is monkeypox racist? Real question.
— StillHaveHope1787 (@AnnBluegrass90) June 15, 2022
This feels like deja vu.
— CharacterDefender (@ouatcsship11) June 15, 2022
how the hell is the name monkeypox racist? this is so stupid.
— yungreezy⁷ ᴾʳᵒᵒᶠ (@jralex011) June 15, 2022
“Trust the science”
🤣🤣🤣— Bob (@Hitch_higher) June 15, 2022
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— Seremani (@jazzyl) June 14, 2022