I couldn't help laughing this morning after reading the Taipei Times. I had just finished getting outraged about the
local Minutiamen stalking day laborers in Virginia. The racist overtones got on my nerves, but what really irks me is that these idiots have all of this free time to hang out around 7-11s, taking pictures of vans.
I get two weeks of vacation a year, folks, and I'm not going to waste it on some racist make believe game.
Doesn't this piss you off? I mean, who do I feel bad for here? The guy who has to stand around in the freaking cold ass weather hoping someone wants him to paint something, or the guy who gets to take a day off work a week taking pictures of poor people, because he doesn't like the brown folks in his neighborhood.
So, what does this have to do with Hong Kong Monkeys? Well, I read in the Taipei Times today that the Monkeys in that city are outbreeding the people. And everything became clear, below the fold.
In Hong Kong, the monkeys are
getting fat on handouts, they're
moving into neighborhoods that they're not supposed to be in, and they're
becoming aggressive. The biggest source of concern? Well, the average Hong Kong woman gives birth to 0.8 children in her life. The monkey population, meanwhile, is growing at 6 percent. You do the math.
Wait, I'll do it for you. The end result is clearly going to be that Hong Kong will be overrun with Monkeys in a few years. Gleaming skyscrapers and bustling markets will soon be a distant memory as the Monkeys outbreed the Hong Kongers, move into high rises and begin throwing feces at bedraggled businessmen.
Right?
So, why aren't Hong Kong women having more babies? Well, like most of us, they have to work an awful lot. As do their husbands. And frankly, there's no time for babies. So, sadly, the city is doomed to imminent monkey takeover. Goodbye, Central! So long, Repulse Bay! I hope those Macaques treat you well, Kowloon.
Now, what does this have to do with our brave Minutiamen and their cameras and legal pads? Not a whole hell of a lot, I have to tell you. The monkeys in Hong Kong aren't working for those handouts, and they're certainly not sending them to their less fortunate relatives in Guizhou.
What it does have to do with our racist American friends is the hysteria surrounding a group of outsiders combined with obvious ignorance of the real problem at hand. If racist whites are concerned that minorities are going to outnumber whites here in this country, then wouldn't it be more productive to work for a higher standard of living for themselves, including better maternity and paternity benefits, rather than simply persecuting immigrants?
To be fair to Hong Kong and the Taipei Times, they actually address this problem in the article, which is entitled "Monkeys outbreed people in stress-laden Hong Kong", and concludes with
Human infertility rates in the city have climbed, with experts blaming stressful lifestyles and a lack of exercise among the young.
Now, can you imagine some coverage of the Minutiamen including little tidbits like that? Let's hear about these guys and their benefits, instead of allowing the right-wing to perform the classic bait and switch.