Ebola, Race, and Class on Twitter

Ethical questions re: who is getting the experimental #Ebola drug (hint: it's not Africans) #racism http://t.co/pk7YPeRAm3
— Nicole Chiodo, MLIS (@libraryyoda) August 11, 2014

Add racism to the Ebola problem and you add yet another plague. @IshmaelBeah @washingtonpost @FranSilverberg http://t.co/vuGo4ZRbZC
— Ira Silverberg (@SilverbergIra) September 21, 2014

EBOLA The epidemic and the veiled racism of geopolitics symbolically depicted in just an image... #ebola #epidemic pic.twitter.com/CSuKgx1ocS
— Hermes Prado Jr MD (@hermespradojr) September 21, 2014

my mom just called me telling me Ebola was caught and too stay away from the _inserts racism-
— Ahlanie. (@ME_PUNK221) October 2, 2014

If you see or hear people doing this here or elsewhere, confront them. Don't let bigotry and racism go unchallenged http://t.co/LAgQ5cYzLq
— Tony Wonder (@Jordan_Stewart) October 2, 2014

Newsweek accused of 'racism' and 'fear mongering': http://t.co/JJORRZ8ZCe pic.twitter.com/4IEEb2rIP6 #Ebola
— Rami (@Ramisms) August 25, 2014

Are #Ebola victims also victims of social triage? @Ethnography911 on the lives we do and don't value: http://t.co/WTb5fHWFSX
— Dissent Magazine (@DissentMag) August 17, 2014

How the outbreak of Ebola turned into a debate about racism and responsibility: http://t.co/V1WZNaOU0m pic.twitter.com/SyvV7HDmOm
— GlobalPost (@GlobalPost) August 10, 2014

Running a book on when the @commentisfree article on #Ebola and racism would appear? Its here, via @LolaOkolosie http://t.co/bKLEbZ5PZR
— PaulStott (@MrPaulStott) August 4, 2014

Hey @CBS the people of most affected by the Ebola virus do not look like this. You colorism and your racism is showin pic.twitter.com/ajCl8QN3GU
— Zahava Moon (@ZahavaMoon) July 29, 2014

@itvnews think your correspondents comments about the spread of Ebola out of Africa could increase racism and exclusion #scaremongering
— Sarah Adams (@sadamsbwfc) October 2, 2014

All of these Ebola tweets and people are turning it into this big joke. More than 3,000 people have died from it already. ITS NOT FUNNY
— Peyton (@peytonchavez) October 3, 2014

Joke about Ebola and it's funny, huh? Yall don't joke about Cancer, Sickle Cell, ALS, or anything else. But Ebola is okay to joke about?
— Hannah (@pokerow) October 2, 2014

This is what it looks like when my friends and I take a joke that wasn't very funny to begin with too far. #ebola pic.twitter.com/nkjd3hgTVB
— Steph Armstrong (@stephaarmstrong) August 1, 2014

Dallas County now says 8 children from 5 schools are being monitored for possible #Ebola exposure #EbolaDallas
— Ed Henry (@edhenryTV) October 2, 2014

#Europe: Genocidal fantasies from #JeanMarieLePen: #Ebola as 'solution' to population explosion | Guardian #racism http://t.co/qXshAaouBS
— Benedikt M. Schäfer (@AS_Grad) May 23, 2014

CDC continues contact tracing of index patient contacts, new diagnosed HCW contact & HCWs who cared for index patient pic.twitter.com/pFYTULd2qB
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrFriedenCDC) October 13, 2014

The enemy is a virus and there is no blame to place on anyone on the frontlines of the #Ebola fight.
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrFriedenCDC) October 13, 2014

#Ebola is not spread through casual contact or through the air. pic.twitter.com/Ayq3gs9NVf
— CDC (@CDCgov) October 12, 2014

#Ebola is spread by direct contact w/ body fluids of a sick person or exposure to contaminated objects, like needles. pic.twitter.com/ZvHZ349CTM
— CDC (@CDCgov) October 12, 2014