• Riots in Guinea over disinfectant spray
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[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;45839807]Well, calling Africans "apes" is very disgusting even if you didn't mean it in a racist way. You should probably stop speaking your mind and start thinking.[/QUOTE] If you can't handle people speaking their mind then you should just ignore it. I wrote apes because that's how they behaved, not what skin color they have.
[QUOTE=EskillV2;45839028]I speak my mind so to speak.[/QUOTE] The comment you made earlier is very close to bordering on racism think before you talk.
I wrote "ignorant apes" because they behaved like that in that particular situation, just like when they raided a quarantined building filled with ebola patients. If you were offended by my comment, report it and move on.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;45837784]Ebola has power because we give it power. As long as we stop believing, it will go away[/QUOTE] TIL we are orks from W40k
Why do some of you guys have such high expectations of a country with a literacy rate just above 40%? I mean shit, just imagine if you're highly eneducated and foreign men who likely don't speak your language show up in strange white suits, spraying weird shit everywhere while people die. Think you might become just a little bit scared at least? [QUOTE=EskillV2;45840654]If you can't handle people speaking their mind then you should just ignore it. I wrote apes because that's how they behaved, not what skin color they have.[/QUOTE] I don't think you're racist for it, but you probably shouldn't call Africans apes due to the historical usage. Intentional or not it can cause you to be associated with people who used the word with a racist connotation.
[QUOTE=EskillV2;45835240]Yes i can agree on that, but it should not be so hard to ask around about Ebola and about the danger it poses.[/QUOTE] It's funny how ignorant you are while talking about their ignorance. It's like your mind refuses to comprehend that they have no means to educate themselves. "Why not just ask about it?" reminds me too much of "Let them eat cake".
[QUOTE=EskillV2;45836447] Are they prohibited to go to the local doctor office and ask? Or are there absolutely no means for them to seek out this information or aquiring help for that matter? I don't know that and i'm pretty sure you don't know that either.[/QUOTE] There are just over 42 doctors in Liberia. You can't "go to the doctors office". There is none. I can tell you've never been to a proper third world country. The way you find out information is through neighbours in a slum. Rumours spread, uneducation takes hold and people end up thinking that elboa is a lie. Ebola has never, ever been to west africa before. This completely new to them. If this happened in Kenya? The people there would actually know what it is, Ebola has gone through there before. They're educated about it. They can't read to get information, everything is word of mouth. It's like a long game of telephone where everything ends up fucked up.
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