In the 1830s, cholera was described as an Irish disease. In the late 1800s tuberculosis was portrayed as a Jewish disease. In 1900, San Franciscans quarantined Chinatown and threatened to burn it down. In 2005, Lou Dobbss CNN show falsely reported that there had been 7,000 leprosy cases. In 2006, Pat Buchanan claimed that that clearly the illegal aliens were to blame for the rise in bedbug infestations.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:50:45 +0000
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