What do you expect? It's going to happen and instead of worrying about the small things, do your part.
What do I expect? Not really sure what you're replying to what I said.
Point is that people are assholes and you won't be able to change them. Doesn't matter what was Trump's motive for saying it was the China virus. The people that kiss his ass feel empowered when they say it for derogatory reasons.
I don't buy it, everyone knows it came from China, as they should. If asian violence has actually risen, and I kinda doubt that it has, that's the reason, not Trump or whoever else calling it the China virus. All the whites crying about it is what made it a big deal in the first place
Yes, but majority of them are white.
I wasn't saying calling it the China virus is why the attacks increased, but the pandemic being from China.
It's clear he insisted on "Chinese virus" so it would distract from him not once owning any blame for how the pandemic affected the country. Any sort of xenophobia is not something he endorses as much as it is something he doesn't give a shit about. Everything he does and says is about his own image, he just doesn't give enough of a shit about the ramifications of what he says, hence it fostering bigotry or people dying from taking fish tank cleaner, or drinking lysol. Everything he says that isn't from a script is a riff that exists to minimize his failures and magnify his "successes" and nothing else really.
The majority of people in the US are white. If they all decided to follow Hitler he would get democratically elected. Technically you don't need any minorities to win elections you just need to convince all white people. Of course, the reality is different since white people get trained to hate themselves as evil incarnate but there are also many immigrant Trump supporters.
Isn't there proof of that though? How would they be able to do anything when their own doctors and journalists have said China was covering up the virus? Plus, that's like pot calling the kettle black as the landlords have been kicking Black tenants out of their places due to "fears of coronavirus."
I agree there's less inflammatory ways, but bigoted? Thats a word too casually thrown around these days. There's nothing bigoted about referring to a virus by it's country of origin, especially when they're going out of their way to blame it on anyone and everyone.
The CCP does not care about the truth or reality of the situation and if anyone wants Chinese money then they better follow suit whether the WHO or several news/multimedia companies. Money talks and pretty much nothing else matters. Black people being thrown out of Mc Donalds and racially harassed or Muslim people put into reeducation and labor camps. Doesn't seem like anyone will put something up against them.
Nah, if the disease originated in USA or England, they wouldn't be calling it "USA disease," just coronavirus. It's bigoted to refer to a virus by a country of origin (usually) when it has an official name. The paper that Trump read from allegedly also had strikes through "coronavirus" and replaced with "Chinese virus."
The thing is, the West does not care about Black people or Muslims. At best, China would have to actively be spreading Communism, if not hurt white people, for the West to bother taking action.
The ebola virus' "official name is Zaire Ebola Virus named after the country. The Zika Virus is named after the Ziika Forest in Uganda. Marburgvirus after the city of Marburg in Germany. I see it less about bigotry but about blame and politics. China letting this pandemic happen or at least covering it up and willfully letting it spread all over the world has a potentially catastrophic effect on the world economy. China being a communist authoritarian police state has better chances to keep the pandemic in check and win from a situation like this. I'm not saying this was a willful conspiracy but that they used the situation to do what is best for them. China did not spread communism (ask Hong Kong and Taiwan) but they spread a virus and hid it, lying all the way through it.
It would depend on who was naming it, but if China started calling it the UK virus, would you really give a damn? I'm gonna go ahead and say no, you wouldn't care, cause it don't matter. As desin pointed out, naming a virus by it's country of origin is nothing special, and in this case is even warranted. With China going around saying it's the US' fault or the "blacks did it" lol, calling it the Chinese virus every once in a while is a good reminder to ignore the crazy.
Marburg virus isn't a strain of ebola, it's a similar, but separate virus.
If China called it UK virus as people from UK were attacked and discriminated against, then I'd give damn, yeah. If Asians weren't attacked prior to calling it a Chinese virus or after, then I wouldn't care much.
I'm going off by memory with what I read on the WHO website.
Yeah and it's been theorized it started in France during WWI and also in China as well. The point is it being erroneously named due to lack of science isn't analogous to COVID-19. Calling it "Wuhan virus" isn't the same as calling it "Chinese virus" either.