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To: Ilaine who wrote (763)	9/27/2003 10:00:49 AM
From: Henry Niman	Respond to of 1070

The FR thread actually is on the article you posted freerepublic.com and the posts are as wacky as ever (although now posters get to add their prejudices, which shows why a SARS re-run will be VERY messy). Here are a couple of the classics: To: aristeides Funny, I noticed in the Toronto papers, that after around the 20th SARS related death, they stopped publishing the victims names because, it looked like the majority of them were of southeast Asian origin. I guess my country being so PC and all, they didn't want to single out any specific group for fear of being labelled racist.....funny that.... 13 posted on 09/26/2003 7:34 AM PDT by IvanT [ Post Reply \| Private Reply \| To 9 \| View Replies ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: IvanT PC kills. In this case, it could have killed the Asians whose feelings the PC-ers were so gently protecting (as well as killing business in the Asian neighborhoods that non-Asians would have been more willing to shop in, if they had been told the facts.) 14 posted on 09/26/2003 7:38 AM PDT by aristeides [ Post Reply \| Private Reply \| To 13 \| View Replies ]