Oregon County Issues Face Mask Order That Exempts Non-White People

[GURPS]

A county in Oregon is exempting non-white people from a new order that requires facemasks be worn in public.

The reason? To prevent racial profiling.

Lincoln County health officials announced last week that all residents must wear face coverings when in public places in which they are likely to come within six feet of another person who is not from their own household.

“But people of color do not have to follow the new rule if they have ‘heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment’ over wearing the masks, officials said,” The New York Post reported.

Those exempted from wearing face masks, Lincoln County’s June 16 directive states, are “persons with health or medical conditions that preclude or are exacerbated by wearing a face covering,” “children under the age of 12,” persons with certain disabilities that do no allow them to wear one, and “people of color who have heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment due to wearing face coverings in public.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/oregon-county-issues-face-mask-order-that-exempts-non-white-people

 

[Scat]

But I am a peopleof color too, why am I always excluded and get told that its OK?

 

[Sneakers]

The more decisions that are made to pander, the more entitled they will become. The more entitled, the more pandering. Vicious cycle.

 

[Road King]

Isn't everyone a person of some color?

 

[Tech]

Wait. If blacks are more adversely affect by the Wuhan because of systemic racism , then not enforcing the mask rule for all will affect them more.

 

[GURPS]

White is all Colors

Black is the Absence of color

 

[DaSDGuy]

Not according to Wikipedia
Person of color
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Today the term "person of color" (plural: people of color, persons of color; sometimes abbreviated POC)[1] is primarily used to describe any person who is not considered white in the United States. During various periods in US history, persons of color included African Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Pacific Islander Americans, Middle Eastern Americans[2] and others. The term emphasizes common experiences of systemic racism.[3][4] The term may also be used with other collective categories of people such as "communities of color", "men of color" (MOC), and "women of color" (WOC).[5] The acronym BIPOC refers to black, indigenous, and other people of color and aims to emphasize the historic oppression of black and indigenous people.

You do realize that Wiki can be updated/modified by anyone with a keyboard, right? There is no filter for accuracy, just like Snopes.

 

[vraiblonde]

Wait. If blacks are more adversely affect by the Wuhan because of systemic racism , then not enforcing the mask rule for all will affect them more.

That was my thought when I heard it on the news this afternoon. Maybe they're trying to kill all the black people? Someone should stop them.

 

[happyazz]

That was my thought when I heard it on the news this afternoon. Maybe they're trying to kill all the black people? Someone should stop them.

My thought was, Are they trying to appease them and kill them at the same time?

 

[Hijinx]

I laugh at the term People of Color.
They used to be called colored people, bu they didn't like that, but now they want to be People of Color, which is Colored People stated backwards. Dumb shits.

 

[GURPS]

Trans Oregon Official Who Created Mask Exemption for POC Said at Gender Confirmation: 'I Couldn't Wear This Mask One More Day'

Oregon has given us perhaps the most 2020 thing of 2020. The county commissioner who created the exemption to the mandatory mask order for people of color is a trans activist. Her famous quote, while completing “gender confirmation,” was, “I couldn’t wear this mask one more day.”

I’ll need a slide rule to calculate all this intersectionality.

Governor Kate Brown ordered seven counties to mandate masks for all people who visit places open to the public, in further response to the CCP coronavirus pandemic. After Lincoln County, on Oregon’s coast, created an exemption for people of color to the mask order, they received unwanted attention from across America. So they canceled the exemption.

 

[LightRoasted]

If I may ...

Pretty sure. Somewhere in the US Constitution, somewhere, there is what's known as the equal protection clause. Actually? I'm fairly downright certain it is in there.

 

[Hijinx]

If I may ...

Pretty sure. Somewhere in the US Constitution, somewhere, there is what's known as the equal protection clause. Actually? I'm fairly downright certain it is in there.

Yep It's there, but it doesn't count for white people or Republicans.

 

[WingsOfGold]

I laugh at the term People of Color.
They used to be called colored people, bu they didn't like that, but now they want to be People of Color, which is Colored People stated backwards. Dumb shits.

Yes I find the whole term pretty stupid. if George Kingfish Stevens was called that he would consult Algonquin J. Calhoun and ask WTF was he talking about?

 

[GURPS]

If I may ...

Pretty sure. Somewhere in the US Constitution, somewhere, there is what's known as the equal protection clause. Actually? I'm fairly downright certain it is in there.

yeah mr transqueer had to walk back the exemption a couple of days later