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Sick!: The “logical” conclusion of political correctness: discriminating against a disease—a disease!—because not enough visible minorities suffer from it. The National Post has the nauseating details:

OTTAWA - The Carleton University Students' Association has voted to drop a cystic fibrosis charity as the beneficiary of its annual Shinearama fundraiser, supporting a motion that argued the disease is not "inclusive" enough.

Cystic fibrosis "has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men," said the motion read on Monday night to student councillors, who voted almost unanimously in favour of it.

Every fall, during university orientation for new arrivals, students fan out across the city and seek donations from passersby. According to the motion, "all orientees and volunteers should feel like their fundraising efforts will serve their diverse communities."

Nick Bergamini, a third-year journalism student on the student council, said he was the only elected councillor to vote against the motion. The decision is an example of campus political correctness gone too far, he said.

"They 're not doctors. They're playing politics with this," Mr. Bergamini said. "I think they see this, in their own twisted way, as a win for diversity. I see it as a loss for people with cystic fibrosis."

Shinearama is carried out at about 65 colleges and universities across Canada. It has raised money for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for almost 50 years and Carleton has participated for at least 25.

During orientation week this year, Carleton students, who have raised about $1-million over the years, raised $20,000, said foundation chief executive Cathleen Morrison, who was surprised and dismayed by the student association decision.

The rationale for dropping cystic fibrosis as the beneficiary is not correct, she said. CF is diagnosed just as often among girls as boys, although the health of girls deteriorates more rapidly, she said. It is commonly considered an illness that affects Caucasians, but that includes people from the Middle East, South America, North Africa and the Indian subcontinent.

" 'Caucasian' as we understand it isn't just white people," Ms. Morrison said. "It includes people with a whole rainbow of skins."

Student association president Brittany Smyth said the motion came about because the association has been contemplating rotating the beneficiary of Shinearama to different charities each year instead of giving the money to a single charity.

"It's about people wanting to do something different," she said…

She added, “Like instead of using our heads, we’re going to stick them up our arses for a change.”

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