Time to Retire Slurs
My Uncle Don had a different name for everyone. I had no idea where he came up with all these labels. They were often colorful, and clearly he thought they were funny. Except nobody was really laughing. To him, someone from South Asia was a Paki, an aboriginal person was, obviously, an Indian; a guy […]
Mainstream Measles Mongers
If you’ve been following reporting from mainstream media outlets lately you could not have missed the flurry of stories about the resurgence of the measles in Canada or the U.S. Stern-looking public health officials with wrinkled brows are quoted as saying we’re about to be swallowed by a highly infectious disease that is vaccine-preventable. Apparently […]