Cystic Fibrosis Is Too White to Cure

Posted on November 26, 2008

Carleton student union head now wants to reverse decision to kill fundraising event

Carleton University’s student union will be asked to reverse a controversial decision to scrap its annual Shinerama fundraiser.

The union had voted 22-2 in favour of dropping the popular Cystic Fibrosis fundraiser because the disease “has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men,” according to the motion brought forward by student representative Donnie Northrup.

The motion suggests “all orientees and volunteers should feel like their fundraising efforts will serve the their diverse communities.”

Cathleen Morrison, CEO of the Canadian CF Foundation, told reporters on Tuesday the decision was based on false information. She said CF affects men and women equally, and while more common among Caucasians, it afflicts all races.

Brittany Smyth, president of the Carleton University Students’ Association, defended CUSA’s intentions, saying members simply wanted to explore other charities to donate to after actively supporting CF for years.

“I both respect and admire the students’ commitment to the cause of raising funds for cystic fibrosis,” said Smyth in a statement. “I believe this issue has been blown out of proportion but the motion was never meant to imply that raising funds for Cystic Fibrosis research was not a worthwhile cause.”

Smyth apologized for the negative media attention the story garnered, and said “the responsible thing to do is reverse the decision.”

Students had planned to protest the motion in a rally on campus tomorrow (Thursday).

Carleton University president Roseann O’Reilly Runte issued a statement on Wednesday to express her “personal regret” over the original decision, and criticized language contained within the motion “which was not appropriate

and which has raised considerable concern.”

Runte said Carleton students have donated nearly $1 million to CCFF through the Shinerama program.

“It is, however, the students’ right to donate their time and funds to the charity of their choice,” said Runte in a statement.

Several media outlets said the CUSA decision was racially-motivated, while one student union member called the decision “political correctness gone horribly wrong.”

Smyth told reporters the union’s intentions were simply to spread the wealth to other deserving charities, and said she was shocked at the national response the story garnered.

“I know that Carleton students are fine young scholars who wish to be responsible and considerate,” said Runte. “I am sure that they did not intend to offend by the preamble to their motion, but I am also sure that they now understand the effects of that language… I am convinced that our students will do the right thing and take the appropriate course of action.”

-with files from The Canadian Press

Finding a cure for cystic fibrosis has been deemed politically incorrect, on the grounds that this awful disease tends to effect those who deserve to suffer — the source of all evil, male Caucasians:

OTTAWA – The Carleton University Students’ Association has voted to drop a cystic fibrosis charity as the beneficiary of its annual Shinearama fundraiser, supporting a motion that argued the disease is not “inclusive” enough.

Cystic fibrosis “has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men” said the motion read Monday night to student councillors, who voted almost unanimously in favour of it.

Here I was thinking racism was a purely imaginary problem, like global warming. But among progressives, it is not only real but vicious.

As always, the moonbats are wrong on multiple levels:

The rationale for dropping cystic fibrosis as the beneficiary is not correct, [Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation chief executive Cathleen Morrison] said. CF is diagnosed just as often among girls as boys, although the health of girls deteriorates more rapidly, she said. It is commonly considered an illness that affects Caucasians, but that includes people from the Middle East, South America, North Africa and the Indian subcontinent.

“‘Caucasian’ as we understand it isn’t just white people,” said Morrison. “It includes people with a whole rainbow of skins.”

This means that even some people whose lives are deemed by moonbats to have value are effected. Maybe cystic fibrosis is a bad thing after all.