Students drop Shinerama [cystic fibrosis] fundraiser for illness targeting Caucasians

[Posteritatis]

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Students at an Ottawa university are pulling out of a Canada-wide fundraiser that provides close to $1 million a year for cystic fibrosis research and treatment, arguing that the disease "has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men" — something experts say is untrue.

The Carleton University Students Association voted Monday night overwhelmingly in favour of choosing a new charity to support during its orientation week in September, in lieu of Shinerama, which raises money for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

I start feeling good about education now and then for some reason and then the idiots in one student association or another go and pull a stunt like this.

And I thought some of the causes at SMU were ridiculous...

[Bassic]

1. What the fuck?

Even if that was true, what the fuck? Go Ravens!

White men don't deserve cures!!

Jesus H Christ.

[laundry_queen]

3. WTF indeed.

EVEN if it was true. Which it most certainly isn't (take a look at the pictures on the cystic-l website), while caucasians have the highest incidence, CF occurs in nearly every ethnic group, there are literally thousands and thousands of mutations, some more common in certain groups than others. Also, more rarely, there can be a spontaneous mutation, and THAT can occur to anyone. (ETA that the incidence is also evenly distributed between males and females. Anyone who took bio in high school knows that)

Unfuckingbelievable. CF is FATAL and needs CONSTANT monitoring and treatment. It is every bit as deserving of fundrasing as any other charity. :wtf:

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

2. Carleton: The K Stands for Quality.