Coronavirus task force another example of Trump administration's lack of diversity.

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  1. chris155au

    chris155au Well-Known Member

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    Looks like it's time to get serious with some stringency and a stockade hard defense authoritarianism. It ain't got jack to do with race or diversity.

    If you're going over the cliff are you going to refuse to grab a black rope or a white rope or a yellow rope or a red Indian rope because you're offended (rhetorical)?

    Only the nut cases at Criminal News Network could be so stupid.
     
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    If you really think the article is saying diversity is more important than the corona-virus issue, it’d be a dumb response. If you don’t really think that, it’d just dishonest.

    Diversity is a valid topic of discussion and that picture just happened to be a stark expression of the issue, a starting point for discussion. It’ll be entirely separate from their actual reporting of the corona-virus situation, which is also a valid topic of discussion.
     
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    well during swine flu 2009, did anyone shut down border with US? lets look the fact of swine flu, seem much higher death and infection than corona "beer" ;)
    https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html
     
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    You don't think the article's author is being critical of the fact that the task force is made up of "white men?"
     
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    Yes that's pretty much in the sewer as far as journalism goes... no surprise it's from CNN
     
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    the point is people was less panic than now. no border or flight was shut in 2009. even a bad flu season can kill over 60,000 ppl here in US than corona beer
     
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    Pic from the article
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    I see Rice and a person to the left of her that could be like 0.000001% black, and Obama who is half black.

    Notice they didn't put a picture that had Ben Carson in it for Trump. Also keep in mind he had Amarosa but she left due to left wing pressure.

    So is the diversity complaint in this article that Obama had 1.000001% more black people or is it that Trump is racist against the Flu and other viruses because he has a corona virus task force?
    Is it because Corona the beer is mexican and they are saying he's anti mexican?
    I don't get it
    can one of you left wing brainiacs please explain this to me?
    Thank you!
     
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    I doubt trump personally picked the team. If they were looking for the best of the best and that turned out to be white people this is pragmatism and what intelligence would do.

    Choosing a team based upon nothing but diversity is being stupid.
     
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    Exactly, so isn't that why people were panicing less in 2009?
     
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    Carson isn't on the task force is he?

    The Corona virus is Mexican?
     
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    1) I didn't know Ben Carson wasn't on the task force (I guess that's proof trump is racist)
    2) the Corona beer thing was sarcasm
    3) there is a lot of white going on in both those pictures. Except I noticed the Obama team is chilling all comfortably with their bottled water, and the Trump team is too busy working to even stop for some poland springs
     
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    There are so many valid points to critique Trump on, but it's things like this which make people tune out and miss the important stuff.

    I'm just waiting for CNN to blame Trump for leaving a tissue in your pocket which ruined your clothes wash.
     
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    Maybe Ben Carson thinks Corona virus started in the pyramids where all the grain is stored.
     
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    So why did you mention him?

    I somehow missed the word "beer."
     
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    I don't get it.
     
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    CNN's twitter feed is blowing up hilariously! A couple notable responses:

    "When I lay dying of bat soup fever, I want to be able to say that the task force may not have been the most qualified, but ******n they were a diverse bunch.."

    "No matter how bad the virus gets, it will never be as bad as the stupid ‘Woke’ virus that has completely eaten any reasonable brain cells you
    may have had."

    Hahahaha! https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1222964716320018436
     
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    True..
     
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    I was totally pissed off in 2009. $11,000 per day just to process the medical waste for one Ebola patient. What in the hell was our idiot government thinking by sitting with their fingers in their rectum.

    Everybody I know was pissed off. We got lucky, lucky, lucky.
     
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    Diversity is no longer wanted from minority groups. They want segregation back.
     
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    The author is being critical of the (purported) fact that the entire administration isn't very diverse. Again, the fact this particular picture was related to the corona-virus is irrelevant either way. It isn't the first time a picture of a meeting of serious government officials has been commented on in this way and it won't be the last.

    By your argument, isn't the fact you chose to start a thread about this rather than about the corona-virus mean you're considering it more important than the health situation too?
     
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    I don't know how you got that from the article and I don't know how you can claim to speak for every single individual who is part of any kind of minority group (which is most of us one way or another) and declare the one thing they all want.
     

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