Not everyone's life revolves around the issue of race. For some it never enters into their minds at all when having an opinion on an issue. For others, EVERYTHING is connected to race.
You jumped too hard and too viciously on someone who simply was stating that they valued eagles and didn't want to allow something that might be harmful to them.
I don't necessarily agree with this poster that DDT would be harmful... but that's not the point. You attacked this person and implied that they didn't care about "darkies" (as you put it). Hate to break it to you , but I really doubt the poster thoughts had ventured in that direction at all. You could have brought the concept up in a less disgusting way (race baiting).
I doubt he had either. Sometimes it's necessary to smack someone in the face with the cold, hard truth of things. He's perfectly willing to let thousands of persons in third world ratholes die from perfectly preventable diseases in order to gain for himself some perceived benefit.
Truth be told, I doubt the poster has the actual intellectual capacity to think at all. He values the lives of eagles (btw there's absolutely no evidence that DDT harms them at all but that's another subject) over the lives of black and brown people around the world. To my mind, it's the absolute worse sort of racism.
He's got his, and the rest of the world be damned. His kids can see eagles (although I seriously doubt he actually lives somewhere where they can see eagles) so it's perfectly alright for some African villagers kids to suffer from malaria, or west nile fever, or some other mosquito borne disease.
He's fortunate he lives in a Western country where we can afford more expensive pesticides in order to control disease carrying pests. In Africa, Asia, and South America they don't have that luxury. The proper use of DDT could save quite probably hundreds of thousands of lives annually in those regions but folks like him don't give a damn about those people. Apparently, all they are fit for is making his Nikes and dying young.
It's an attitude that's endemic to the environmental movement and it makes me sick.
Sorry if I offended you, but people like that need to be called exactly what they are as loudly and as often as possible.
Scratch a liberal, find a fascist. That's just the way things are.
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