Guanabee on Jay Severin, aka Jay Severino or Generational Immigrant Cannibalism!

As an Italian-Mexican-American, Nericcio ain't that common en Mexico, the following story brought horrors to my brain and my genes!

Mexican Scapegoating Op-Ed in the NY Times

...a quick follow-up to my post on Jay Severin's (the Goebbels-cloned cousin of Limbaugh, Beck, Dobbs, & Coulter) anti-immigrant rantings from the May 2, 2009 NY Times:

May 3, 2009
OP-CHART
American Epidemics, a Brief History
By HOWARD MARKEL and SAM POTTS
permalink to original source

ALL epidemics are different in their own way, and the current swine flu outbreak — which by Friday had sickened 141 people in 19 states, and caused deaths and illness in Mexico and 13 other countries — is no exception. Yet, as you can see from the chart below, which provides details on a selected handful of epidemics in American history, all outbreaks share certain themes. While some of these events killed many thousands and others affected only a few, in each case public health officials felt a grave threat was imminent and did what they could using the science of the day.

History also shows us, unfortunately, that epidemics lead to reflexive scapegoating of those thought to have caused the problem. Just as European immigrants were blamed for importing cholera in the late 19th century, we are now seeing reports of American politicians saying that Mexican migrant workers should be turned away from hospitals and a rash of scurrilous posts on the Internet attributing the outbreak to their “dirty” ways of life. Another common feature is misinformation. There are now boycotts around the world of Mexican pork, despite well-established science that humans do not contract swine flu from eating pork. And then there was Vice President Joe Biden’s premature suggestion that we all avoid airplanes and the subway.

Confusion and blame games aside, we can take heart that our public health professionals are working around the clock to prevent this crisis from getting out of control. One thing the history of epidemics teaches us is that given our remarkable arsenal of treatments, public health measures and rapid surveillance and communications ability, there’s never been a better time to have a pandemic than today — except, that is, tomorrow.

Howard Markel, a doctor and professor of medical history at the University of Michigan, is the author of “Quarantine” and “When Germs Travel.” Sam Potts is a graphic designer.

And this, just in from Boston:

Goebbel's Bastard Children Whip Up Anti-Mexican Hate: Boston's Jay Severin on PRIMITIVE Mexicans

As I move from being a coroner of "Mexican" hatred, as I was in Tex[t]-Mex, to an epidemiologist of the same pathology (this blog), I am finding there is almost too much to write about.

In Tex[t]-Mex's introduction, I write about madman Adolph Hitler's beloved adman, Joseph Goebbels, who, with Hitler, wrote of instilling beliefs in the German citizenry, creating hoards of adoring people who would "obey a law they [do] not even know but which they [can] recite in their dreams." Ridiculing laughter, common in anti-Ethnic jokes & cartoons are prime tools in this process, with stereotypes loading the unconscious with more subterranean hate than you can shake a stick at--Henri Bergson, big time French philosopher on laughter argues that these processes are "something like the logic of dreams, though of dreams that have not been left to the whim of individual fancy, being the dreams dreamt by the whole of society.

All this as a preface to the link below; hit the image, read the story, cry-rage-yell-shudder, and then come back here for the closer:


All of the usual suspect stereotypes appear in this sordid tale--for those who skipped the link, I will re-post the more egregious slime here:

In one of his broadcasts this week, Severin said: "So now, in addition to venereal disease and the other leading exports of Mexico - women with mustaches and VD - now we have swine flu."

Later, he described Mexicans as "the world's lowest of primitives."

"When we are the magnet for primitives around the world - and it's not the primitives' fault by the way, I'm not blaming them for being primitives - I'm merely observing they're primitive," he said.

He added that Mexicans are destroying schools and hospitals in the United States. He also criticized their hygiene.

"It's millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools, the hospitals, and a lot of life in America," he said.

He added: "We should be, if anything, surprised that Mexico has not visited upon us poxes of more various and serious types already, considering the number of criminaliens already here."

Severin's worldview, a pastiche of lurid ignorance born from a lifelong study (apparently) of The Secret History of Mankind, is the most dangerous of many voices polluting the airways and view screens of our early American 21st-Century. If you are in Boston and in the media, bring me out there to do a reading and fight back against these dangerous, moronic Mexican-haters.

The irony of all this (especially in light of Severin's hate-laced diatribes) is that the nation at the root of this proto-pandemic is the good old U.S. of A.: Smithfield Foods, makers of Butterball, Farmland, and Armour products, among others, is responsible for bringing together people and pigs in such a way that viral crossbreeding was a matter of time, not doubt. This is not to take the blame off of any individual Mexicans or, Mexican corporations, Granjas Carroll, logolink opposite, a subsidiary of Smithfield, is also responsible for the fetid stew of shit, entrails, and bones (a Danteesque miasma if there ever was one) that allegedly gave birth to this scary influenza. If anything, Severin's "criminaliens" (nice neologism, creep!) are holed up in Smithfield, Virginia--and they aren't Mexican.