Why is HLN using a pair of black hands as an illustration next to an article about apenpokken?
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Why is HLN using a pair of black hands as an illustration next to an article about apenpokken?
https://i.postimg.cc/nc1DDX3x/Screenshot-20220520-125148.png
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So if the hands were white it doesn’t matter?
For now It’s mainly something that occurs in Africa tho.
But I also had my doubts about it.
VRT NWS did it too…
Am i too Woke?
Why shouldnt they? Probably the easiest image they could find.
So what does it matter if they are white, yellow, black, orange or whatever color.
Because thats the first picture that made the rounds about how the pokken look on the skin. Nothing racial.
Because they are super racist!!!!!!!!
Representation matters OP.
Because it is a disease found in Africa and therefore most images illustrating the disease have black people in them…?
Probably because the disease is almost exclusively found in Africa so most pictures of people suffering from it will be pictures of African people. It’s not a racism thing
Maybe their image database only has pictures of black hands since the disease originated in Africa, but the question should be why only black hands. I’d also like to know how it looks like on different skin colors to be able to recognize the disease.
Skin diseases tend to look different on different skin colors.
Given that the origin is said to be African, it stands to reason the available stock photography is going to involve African patients.
If they consistently keep doing it going forward, that’s another matter.
[https://gyazo.com/0648a7b47f3d5c0e6f127ea51d336e6a](https://gyazo.com/0648a7b47f3d5c0e6f127ea51d336e6a)
De originele racistische kwajongens, de CDC, Centre for Disease Control gebruikte de foto in 2015 en is sedertdien van alle kanten gebruikt in meer dan 100+ berichtgevingen (inclusief Reuters etc.)
Als ge den enige zijt die er tot dusver racisme in ziet ligt het probleem bij u, niet bij de krant in kwestie. (Als ge HLN nog een krant moogt noemen.)
It shows the symptoms of the disease? It seems someone woke up this morning wanting to start a fight.