Some Amish dude brought measles back w him from a missionary trip, infecting nearly 400 people in a teeny Ohio town in one month last year.
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Replying to @aurabogado
Now, imagine how different this story would be framed if an undocumented immigrant had brought measles with them and infected 400 people.
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The fact that we haven't even heard about the Amish patient zero for measles guy speaks volumes about who gets to be human in the U.S.
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Remember when all those little children were coming to the U.S. from Central America last year? People were like "They'll bring viruses!"
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The fact of the matter is that those Central American kids were way more vaccinated than a lot of white kids from Marin County.
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Those migrant children were blamed for something they didn't even do. Meanwhile, the white guy from Ohio that did bring measles? *crickets*
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People like Pennsylvania's
@GovernorCorbett even tried to blame migrant children for the measles they didn't bring: http://migrationnotebook.tumblr.com/post/92434542058/pa-governor-tom-corbetts-full-comments-to-kdkas …5 replies 23 retweets 7 likes -
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I don't think we should be shaming the Amish guy, either. People have valid reasons for not trusting the government and vaccines...
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I'm just making a point about how the nearly 400 white people that first got measles in Ohio got to keep their privacy and their dignity.
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Remember how black Africans were demonized just recently over Ebola? Yeah. It's not been the same for white Amish people and measles.
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