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Originally Posted by upallnight
It matters because he is trying to shift the blame for his inept response to the problem. Maybe since you are not Asian American you don't give a shit but the violence against Asian Americans has increased because of Trump rhetoric.
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It is true that our 'peerless leaker' can't accept blame for anything very much like a single child that wont admit he knocked over the vase. It's a pretty big character defect and i would tell him to his face.
I do 'give a shit' about Asians; i have an asian-america son and an asian wife who is 1/2 chinese and sees no problem with using the phrase wuhan virus.
It's terrible that people try to turn a simple thing like referring to a virus by it's origination (like typically done).
What do *you* call the sars-cov-2 virus? It is NOT 'coronavirus' that is something 'the press' made up because after trump started using china virus or wuhan virus they decided that minute to call trump racist (nothing further from the truth) and that somehow it's evil to refer to a virus by where it was discovered I never heard anybody complain about the name of Ebola in that way, because there is no reason for it.
People that saw that in my view are the racists; and anybody that took it upon themselves to harm somebody of chinese decent because of the pres. calling the virus by it's origin, after the 'news' had been doing it for a month or more, should be hung up by their privates and *then* tortured.
I only have heard anecdotal evidence of any change in violence directed at Asians/Chinese tied to anything trump said regarding the sars-cov-2 virus.
Literally if a document was trying to reference the virus and they put covid-19 as the name of the virus that is just wrong it's the name of the disease so it should have been crossed out and changed to sars-cov-2 or the alias wuhan virus.
Exactly how is referring to the source of a virus 'shifting blame', it's a fact. The virus came from there it's not in dispute. You bought up 'it came through Europe' are you trying to say it originated in Europe or that it came through Europe to the usa and what would that have to do with the proper and long standing tradition of naming a virus after the geographic location where it originated.
If a new virus was discovered in Wisconsin and they called it 'the wisconsin virus' it would not bother me at all; in fact if it makes you feel better you can refer to sars-cov-2 as the wuconshan virus.
I'm not exaggerating about how to deal with somebody that would harm an asian because of the origination of the virus. Say if somebody killed somebody for that reason, i would have no problem pulling the lever on the electric chair myself.