Monday, December 01, 2008

Sucks to be a white male

White males get no respect these days. In a case of pure prejudice the students association at Carelton university, located in Ottawa, Ontario, has voted to cancel its annual shinerama fundraiser for cystic fibrosis. The reason give? Cystic Fibrosis is a white man's disease. Apparently diseases affecting mostly white men aren't worth fighting. (Click here for the article.)

"The proposal to abandon Shinerama was put forward after it was “recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men,” according to the motion."

“We have a diverse community,” CUSA vice-president (finance) Kweku Winful said. “We need something that is more representative of the greater student [body] than just one small group . . . we need to appeal to a larger demographic.”

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

By "current events" in your profile, you mean news from two weeks ago, right?

Spitfire said...

Old news buddy, they reversed the motion last night.