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4.2 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:02.6 | Pfff! |
| 0:10.6 | Monkey Pox. |
| 0:12.0 | This morning, the World Health Organization announced |
| 0:15.4 | that because of concerns that the word monkey Pox is racist |
| 0:20.0 | and stigmatizing, the disease will officially be renamed M-Pox. |
| 0:25.2 | LAUGHTER |
| 0:28.4 | And I don't know who this is for. |
| 0:30.8 | LAUGHTER |
| 0:31.8 | You know, this sounds like they were trying so hard not to be racist |
| 0:35.4 | that they ended up being racist. |
| 0:38.0 | You know, some guy was like, we can't use monkey. |
| 0:41.0 | That immediately makes me think of, you know... |
| 0:44.0 | LAUGHTER |
| 0:45.8 | Right? Come on. We're all thinking it, right? |
| 0:47.8 | Am I the only one? |
| 0:49.8 | Because he has the thing, if you're really trying to get rid of the stigma, |
| 0:52.0 | just give it a completely different name, right? |
| 0:54.2 | Because you realize just abbreviating the word |
| 0:56.0 | that you don't want people to think about. |
| 0:57.6 | Which works until someone says, |
| 0:59.8 | what does the M stand for? |
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