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Posted By: NorthernDog, 11/28/2022 8:39:40 AM

LONDON -- The World Health Organization has renamed monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist. The U.N. health agency said in a statement Monday that mpox was its new preferred name for monkeypox, saying that both monkeypox and mpox would be used for the next year while the old name is phased out. WHO said it was concerned by the “racist and stigmatizing language” that arose after monkeypox spread to more than 100 countries. It said numerous individuals and countries asked the organization “to propose a way

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World health officials are hard at work - worrying about politically correct language.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: NYBruin 11/28/2022 8:48:48 AM (No. 1343964)
Stigmatizing whom??
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 11/28/2022 8:54:32 AM (No. 1343970)
Don't insult the monkeys?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: MickTurn 11/28/2022 9:02:45 AM (No. 1343975)
Let's cut to the real story...CDC is renaming things to hide their incompetence. How about we just call all Virus' MarxistPox's of various numbered versions...
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Reply 4 - Posted by: wilarrbie 11/28/2022 9:08:19 AM (No. 1343989)
Nope. We're still going to call it Monkeypox. It's fun to say!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: janjan 11/28/2022 9:12:30 AM (No. 1343996)
How ironic that it’s the wokesters associating the word ‘monkey’ with black people.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Turninggrey 11/28/2022 9:18:57 AM (No. 1344005)
Gay monkeys are rejoicing everywhere.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Tusker 11/28/2022 9:19:59 AM (No. 1344006)
Call it what it is: Wokeypox.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Heil Liberals 11/28/2022 9:27:15 AM (No. 1344019)
WHO is full of racists. This is more proof.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: ironchefw 11/28/2022 9:29:40 AM (No. 1344025)
Umm... who exactly is being the racist here?
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Reply 10 - Posted by: GustoGrabber 11/28/2022 9:37:34 AM (No. 1344041)
Does that mean if a virus originates in whales.......?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Mizz Fixxit 11/28/2022 9:40:52 AM (No. 1344048)
Play dumb when the term mpox is spoken. Ask, what is mpox?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: plaids 11/28/2022 9:48:52 AM (No. 1344055)
What about the 3 monkeys with the various evil quotes? Can't say monkey see monkey do either?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Banjo Willy 11/28/2022 9:51:04 AM (No. 1344059)
Oh yeah, well .. there is that ... but why don't we just create a vaccine that will erase racism in everyone?
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Banjo Willy 11/28/2022 9:52:48 AM (No. 1344064)
How long before we can no longer find 'watermelon' in our stores?
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Catfur27 11/28/2022 10:09:12 AM (No. 1344077)
..I hear the wokesters want to also rename "Black Friday" after discovering stats that show there was a jump in shoplifting on that day....???
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Reply 16 - Posted by: StrikingViking 11/28/2022 10:23:48 AM (No. 1344084)
So the WHO thinks "monkey" is another word for Blacks? How very progressive of them.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: kennedylaw 11/28/2022 10:25:05 AM (No. 1344085)
Monkeys were offended?
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Reply 18 - Posted by: stablemoney 11/28/2022 10:29:39 AM (No. 1344091)
So monkeys will now be called m. I am offended by WHO. It is racist and a reminder of "Who dat"?
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Reply 19 - Posted by: RayLRiv 11/28/2022 10:37:28 AM (No. 1344100)
I didn't know monkeys were racist
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Reply 20 - Posted by: Calvinesq 11/28/2022 10:50:41 AM (No. 1344110)
A rose, by any other name, is still a rose. Monkeypox, by any other name, is still Monkeypox.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: mc squared 11/28/2022 11:09:56 AM (No. 1344128)
In my heart, it will always be Monkey Pox.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: broken01 11/28/2022 12:24:55 PM (No. 1344187)
It sounds like the monkeys work over at the WHO.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: jimboscott 11/28/2022 12:34:29 PM (No. 1344191)
So... this really reveals the ones who equate monkeys with Africans. The rest of us know that a monkey is just a monkey and NOT a symbol derision. Projection, once again, at its finest.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: JimBob 11/28/2022 12:48:36 PM (No. 1344197)
Hmmmm.... My thought is to name it relating to those who are something like 99% of the people who -in the developed world- have come down with it. Something along the lines of HomoPox, or maybe ButtSexPox.
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Reply 25 - Posted by: bpl40 11/28/2022 12:56:09 PM (No. 1344203)
Months ago on this site I named it Homopox. I am still happy with that!
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Reply 26 - Posted by: Zeek Wolfe 11/28/2022 1:34:42 PM (No. 1344237)
Next of the list of forbidden words...BANANAS, BABOONS.
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Reply 27 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 11/28/2022 1:36:03 PM (No. 1344239)
WHO: "doctors" from mud-hut nations living large in Switzerland on salaries unheard of back where they came from.
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Reply 28 - Posted by: privateer 11/28/2022 1:36:57 PM (No. 1344241)
They are probably worried about someone making the jump to 'MonkeyPOCs'. OOPS, sorry.
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Reply 29 - Posted by: SALady 11/28/2022 2:18:56 PM (No. 1344266)
It is so "comforting" to know that a super-powerful organization like WHO is wasting their time, money, and energy to appease a few brain-dead racists (who are the only people who see racism under every rock), by changing the name of a disease. Seriously, how much time and money did they waste on this stupidity when they could have used them to provide medicines to the poor in third-world countries, finding cures for existing diseases, stopping epidemics (using science, not fear), etc, etc?!?!?!? Proof #88,454,227 (this year alone) that lie-beralism is a serious mental disorder!!!!
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Reply 30 - Posted by: JimBob 11/28/2022 3:12:27 PM (No. 1344297)
SALady (#29), from what I can see, nearly all the organizations within the so-called United Nations exist to provide a luxurious and easy life, and easy access to 'under the table' cash, for the 'Executive Directors', 'Directors', Assistant Directors, Deputy Assistant Directors, Deputy to the Assistant Deputy Directors, etc. (string this out as far as you like)........All Disproportionately paid for by the American Taxpayers. Actually providing a Useful Service? HAW! HAW! HAW! Yer Killin' Me!
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Reply 31 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 11/28/2022 3:25:28 PM (No. 1344302)
There was a story yesterday about some NBA player complaining about the mascot of another team being racist. It was a person dressed up in a gorilla suit. Are gorillas racist? Are monkeys racist? God created monkeys and gorillas. Does that make God racist? Only people are racist. People like that NBA player and people working for the WHO. These people are just as racist as those they rail against. Probably, more so. Idiots. Get a life.
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Reply 32 - Posted by: lakerman1 11/28/2022 4:12:42 PM (No. 1344317)
The new M word? Does the N word become obsolete?
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Reply 33 - Posted by: snapper451 11/28/2022 4:28:25 PM (No. 1344324)
Now I have heard it all. And people thought the “Wuhan Flu” or “China Flu” was bad. Then, of course, the corrupt WHO being involved adds to the ridiculousness.
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Reply 34 - Posted by: kiwinews 11/28/2022 11:32:04 PM (No. 1344505)
They just did to get the catchy themesong - Mmmbop for Mpox! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHozn0YXAeE
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Reply 35 - Posted by: kiwinews 11/28/2022 11:33:08 PM (No. 1344507)
Cows and chickens desolate at the news.
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