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How little it takes for this country's lurking racism to rise to the surface.
For the last couple of summers, as the waves of illegal immigrants subsided somewhat, we have been spared the hysterical talk about an 'islamic invasion' and the sprouting up of 'Arab ghettos' around the island.
Even Norman Lowell lost his small gaggle of ignorant acolytes. The last time I checked he was reduced to begging restaurant owners for free meals in exchange for delivering a half hour racist diatribe to 'entertain' their patrons. (How you can hold food down while hearing about rocketing white-skinned foetuses into space to protect the race is beyond me. But there you go.)
Yet Maltese racism is still there and rears its ugly head at every tiny opportunity. Take the medical care being given to the casualties of the Libyan war. Listening to some people talk and following the social media it is as if Maltese men and women are being yanked off Mater Dei's operating tables so that their place is taken by Libyans.
The truth lies somewhere else completely. First, only a dozen Libyan casualties are being given care at present. Secondly, there has been no disruption in the care given to Maltese people as a result of the care being given to these Libyans. And thirdly, Mater Dei has a standard emergency plan which kicks in if the number of war casualties increases.
So can we please refrain from making veiled racist arguments to deny medical care to these poor souls?
Mater Dei is a medical facility whose priorities should be set by its medical staff, not the colour of the patients' skin. Otherwise, it might as well be run by Norman Lowell.
Mater Dei is a medical facility whose priorities should be set by its medical staff, not the colour of the patients' skin. Otherwise, it might as well be run by Norman Lowell.
8 comments:
It is not racism at all. The complainers are just using the racist issue to gather sympaty, the real target is Gonzi. Any excuse is good to slander the administration of this government.
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Lou, can you please advise on how the 'poor souls' are being selected for treatment in Malta? Are they chosen only from the rebel factions, or the emergency service is also open to injured Ghaddafi loyalists too? I rather fear that the latter are being left to rot in some putrid prison cell, don't you think?
What boggles my mind is ,we were given to understand that the wounded brought to Malta,were all very serious cases.
So how come two of them were released from St.James after only a couple of days.
That,I must say, is a very good advert for that hospital.
Keep it up.
JoeM, for a doctor, nurse or anyone else for that matter, it should make no difference whether an injured person is a "rebel" or a "loyalist" as you put it. You could also have called them freedom-fighter and oppressor respectively but, of course, being a possible Gaddafi sympathiser you'd have your own warped perspective.
For your information, the patients coming to Malta are assessed by Maltese medical teams, as explained a few days ago in the media.
We can thank Saviour Balzan for that.
By the way Lou, did you know you've just been given a breakfast show?
Honestly, his paranoia is starting to verge on the sublime.
And the rag Maltatoday continues to spin stories with misleading titles, thus creating and feeding so much hatred to its gullible readers. Reading some of the shocking comments some die hard PL fanatics leave at that rag,I wonder if Muscat and his party are overjoyed with that kind of following. After all, they do have a vote.
Salvu Balzan and his minions shoujd be thoroughly ashamed of themselves for those racist/ xenophobe misleading headlines about Libyan patients taking up the beds of Maltese ones.
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