Oregon county imposes face mask requirement targeting only white people, minorities exempt over raci

[mystery-ak]

Oregon county imposes face mask requirement targeting only white people, minorities exempt over racism fears
by Andrew Mark Miller, Social Media Producer
 | June 23, 2020 07:30 PM



A county in Oregon has issued an order requiring face masks to be worn in public but has exempted nonwhite people over racism fears.

Health officials in Lincoln County, Oregon, which is inhabited by roughly 50,000 people, issued the order requiring individuals to wear face masks in any situation where they might come within 6 feet of another person, but “heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment” mean that nonwhite people aren’t required to abide by the rule, according to the New York Post.

The decision to exempt nonwhite people from wearing masks comes as some have attempted to make the case that minorities are in danger when required to wear masks.

“For many black people, deciding whether or not to wear a bandanna in public to protect themselves and others from contracting coronavirus is a lose-lose situation that can result in life-threatening consequences either way,” American Civil Liberties Union Racial Justice Program Director ReNika Moore said to CNN in April.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/oregon-county-imposes-face-mask-requirement-targeting-only-white-people-minorities-exempt-over-racism-fears

[PeteS in CA]

It's a small coastal county of about 50K people. Neither OU nor OSU are there, so I guess crazies have gotten into the county government.

[mountaineer]

Oregon County Reluctantly Rescinds Race-Baiting Mask Rule
Peak Woke will have to come another time.
by John Jiang
June 26, 2020, 12:10 AM

...   The Public Health Office of Lincoln County, Oregon, fearing an uptick in COVID-19 cases as lockdowns eased, decided to introduce a mandatory mask rule for all indoor public settings. One small detail stood out: citing potential “heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment due to wearing face coverings in public,” the directive declared that the mandatory rule would in fact be completely optional for “people of color.”

National attention and national mockery ensued. The directive was an incredible crystallization of the inexplicable double standard of the George Floyd riots: coronavirus will kill us all and we need everyone to cooperate to beat it, unless you happen to be a person of color with some racial grievance (or an ally of same), in which case you can run around sneezing on people for all we care.

Just to be clear, there was no way to justify this selective exemption on scientific grounds.   ...

Facing the enormous backlash, the Lincoln County Board of Commissioners decided to issue a revised directive today with the bullet point about race removed. Accompanying the change is a statement about the controversy they had caused. Remarkably, the county commissioners try to double down while backpedalling, insisting that their virtuous intentions have been subverted by unspecified “horrifically racist commentary.”   ...

More at American Spectator

[XenaLee]

Oregon County Reluctantly Rescinds Race-Baiting Mask Rule
Peak Woke will have to come another time.
by John Jiang
June 26, 2020, 12:10 AMMore at American Spectator

Remarkably, the county commissioners try to double down while backpedalling, insisting that their virtuous intentions have been subverted by unspecified “horrifically racist commentary.”

There is no justification for displaying sublime stupidity.... yet leftists always try.