Scientists ask to change name of monkeypox due to racism, Tucker Carlson poll renames it to 'schlong covid'

In a continued war on words, scientists seek to change the name of monkeypox. Schlong Covid is called homophobic by detractors, and Tim Pool shows his hypocrisy by decrying the term.

Humor is a tentative subject nowadays, especially humor some might deem 'offensive'. With nearly every segment of society competing in the victim olympics, having your group be labeled 'marginalized' has become a tool people, particularly on the left, have weaponized to discourage all criticism that might come their way.

Tucker Carlson - naturally an inflammatory figure, and nearly everything he says comes under intense scrutiny from the left - has incensed Twitter puritans once again in a segment where he talks about the WHO's desire to rename monkeypox to avoid any racial stigma associated with the name.

Carlson says,"So monkeypox is about the coolest name ever for a disease…but they are changing the name because of racism or something.”

"Well for once, we don't know who they are and we are not going to allow it. We are going to change the name this time, we are going to do it with the public's help because democracy is real."

"So we had a vote, there was no ballot harvesting, you can trust our counting and the new name for monkeypox is now officially, and we are declaring it, Schlong Covid... So, let Rochelle Walensky at the CDC know. Her number is 1-800-232-4636. Wait for the prompt on monkeypox and make your voice heard because it's still a democracy."

The other names in the vote were: Hunter Hives, Midterm Variant, and Adam Schiffilis.

It's not a bad joke, on the whole. It's a clever pun, even if it incorrectly relates monkeypox to covid, but that's the point. We need this type of thing in our society because humor can be heard when nothing else can break through.

This didn't sit well with leftists, and they have seized on the opportunity to fling their usual slurs in response, not only calling Carlson homophobic for the millionth time, but also the moniker 'schlong covid' itself.

It's as damaging as 'groomer' and the npc meme have been to the left, and what they can't assimilate and weaponize, they will summarily ban, as we saw with the former. I don't think it'll be long before schlong covid becomes a banned term as well, it effectively does the same thing. They will call it a slur against gay people and it'll be removed from the newspeak dictionary as well.

Tim Pool, who has long advocated for the right weaponizing memes, terms, and buzzwords in the same fashion as the left, has decried the renaming of monkeypox to schlong covid as a "useless gesture that does nothing." I am in disagreement because of what I stated previously. We have to make jokes out of the institutional left and all their machinations, that's how our message gets out.

I'm especially shocked that he feels this way about it considering the fact that he himself was suspended for using the word 'groomer' on Twitter. I would think he'd be weaponizing schlong covid in shitposts, but after having to pre-emptively pull a recent episode of his podcast due to Alex Lee Moyer, when referring to cancel culture, said canceling wasn't enough and "You have to kill 'em," I guess Tim is a little skittish of losing a portion of his platform. This was done of course to avoid a strike against his channel due to YouTube's policy on calls to violence.

It's a very valid concern and I'm not faulting him for it. What I am faulting him for is rhetorical hypocrisy. He's not only an important voice in the space, but arguably the largest and most vital politically on-topic podcaster that isn't Joe Rogan when Joe decides to do a proper podcast with an interesting guest instead of doing favors for his struggling comic buddies or having a Navy SEAL on to try and absorb a part of their masculinity through osmosis or something while living vicariously through the stories of their experiences.

Tim Pool, when referring to the ‘schlong covid’ story, states,”I think what people underestimate, what [the left] underestimates, is that Americans like offensive comedy...To a certain degree I think it's funny, too. But it's always when it's, like, in good fun.”

He goes on to say, about the Tucker Carlson story,"I am trying so hard to create the rational space to pull people out of the cult, this is a weapon against that... we're having fun, we're laughing, but this comes at the expense of others, or at least it could be perceived that way.”

I’ve done my best to keep it in context while not having to transcribe the whole thing, if this is out of context, do let me know and I’ll fix it.

Now again, I’m a fan of Tim’s, and a regular viewer of his podcast and his news segments. He and his team at Timcast do amazing work. But this is sort of not seeing the forest for the trees, in my mind. The only way we change the environment of public discourse is by changing what’s considered ‘appropriate’. Sometimes you have to be brutally honest, and that, in essence, is what comedy does.

I don’t see this as a bad thing, though I do see how it could get twisted as a reason to blindly hate and stigmatize others. That’s the opposite of what I’m advocating for. I’m advocating for brutal honesty. Tough love. The same type of brutal honesty and tough love that would’ve saved many lives when covid first started killing elderly people en masse but mass murderers like Andrew Cuomo saw fit to keep them locked in a cage with their diseased counterparts to get the death count up so CNN could scroll it on their screen until it mysteriously disappeared once Biden took office. Meanwhile, the rest of us who weren’t susceptible to it were locked down and forced to comply with mask and vaccine mandates, to the delight of big pharma’s bottom line. When instead we could’ve just quarantined those most at risk until it was safe again.

Lives were lost because we didn’t want to have the conversation, and that’s what we’re not going to do with monkeypox, AKA schlong covid.