Dammit Picard, don’t touch your face…
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The Nazis got their inspiration from the Americans - right down to gassing those “unclean” people with Zyklon B. (Only the Americans used a lesser concentration that took longer to kill, so no one immediately dropped dead.)
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Per Proper Hand-Washing Techniques in Public Restrooms: Differences in Gender, Race, Signage, and Time of Day “Significant differences were noted in hand washing compliance based on gender and race. Females and non-Caucasians were more likely to wash their hands than were males and Caucasians.”
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Depends. A lot of disabled people disagree with PFL:
That’s one person, but it’s a very hot topic in the disability community.
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Actually, Republicans wash their hands less frequently than Republicans. https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-democrats-coronavirus-1491075
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People of color comes from an old term: Free people of color or " gens de couleur". it came in into fashion recently because of a racist reticence to refer to Black People. This is why the word “Negress” went out of fashion: it only existed so that one could say “a woman and negress were walking down the street” rather than “two women were walking down the street”.
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Was he? Or was he just taking advantage of another opportunity to cast racist aspersions?
(Insert ‘why not both’ gif, here.)
You might want to edit that, STAT!
Since I can’t read minds, honestly I can’t say one way or another. But I work with a lot of doctors and engineers and the structure of the question is a common one for root cause analysis. You see them asked this way for two reasons: ego and logic. It makes you look smart (asking a question about specific causes) and starts ruling out or focusing on causes. No cause is considered out of bounds.
That works fine if you are trying to figure out why a patient is sick or a car won’t start. But when applied to social or racial problems, even in good faith, it’s going to be creepy.
So was he doing this or being a racist or both? Don’t know. But he should have known better regardless. And yet I’m also glad some researcher already looked into it and could answer. Lives are at stake.
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Growing up in Texas in the late 1980’s I did hear the term colored used at times. It was used only by overtly racist people, only in reference to African Americans and was often followed by the word boy. It was surprising to then gather that the boy they were referring to was a fully grown adult. Colored has deeply racist undertones because it was used by racists in a generally sneering and derogatory manner. They never meant anything nice when I heard them using this term.
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Tone deaf or brain dead?
they used it because they could not used that other word.
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Since it hasn’t been posted here, but in that other topic linked above, but we need every good news we can get:
crosspost:
“Dr. Huffman’s comments are wholly inconsistent with our values and commitment to creating a tolerant and diverse workplace,” a company spokesman said in a statement. “TeamHealth has terminated Dr. Huffman’s employment.”
Good for them.
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Wow. This guy was a physician? Unreal.
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Republicans wash their hands less often than Democrats. https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-democrats-coronavirus-1491075
Wasn’t there a Fox News douche who told people to stop washing their hands? Or at least bragged about never washing his own hands? Can’t cite it but it tickles my memory cells.
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LOL! forgot about this. Thanks!!!
You’re correct. It went by here on BB recently.
Presumably you’ve noticed how, since the pandemic ramped up, that when TV news interviews people from their house, you can see the bookcase behind the interviewee and marvel over how they read this book or that. (Or think to oneself, “Hmm that looks interesting” etc.) This guy had one book on the shelf behind him, and it was his own book, turned around facing forward.
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