You changed the title of this thread, only adding “Chinese” when Trump began his racist “Chinese virus” campaign (note the headers on the first several dozen pages of replies that lack the word, “Chinese”).kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2020 1:42 am Calling something that originated in China as “Chinese” is not racist.
It’s a factual descriptor.
You’re supposedly a lawyer, you should know that.
You ignore the ample evidence that Trump’s campaign is inciting anti-Asian bigotry, and even physical violence against Asian Americans. You ignore those horrible consequences because you apparently don’t care.
There is only one reasonable explanation for your obvious indifference to rising anti-Asian bigotry. Many of your political views reflect those from more than a half-century ago. Why should race be any different?
Here, for your further enlightenment from that liberal rag, Forbes:
The actual virus, SARS-CoV2, hasn’t been the only nasty insidious brainless thing that many Asian Americans have had to deal with during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Nope, there’s also been the continuing bigotry and anti-Asian sentiment that the spread of the virus has uncovered. It certainly hasn’t eased up since I wrote about it for Forbes back in February, which was about three missed haircuts ago. In fact, in many ways it has gotten worse. But if you think that all Asian Americans are going to take this lying down, in the words of Judas Priest, you’ve got another thing coming.
... An increasing number of anti-Asian incidents such as racist graffiti have appeared on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, as Kelly Meyerhofer detailed for the Wisconsin State Journal. This included graffiti that said “It’s from China #CHINESEVIRUS.” Yes, people are including hashtags on racist graffiti these days.
A 60-year-old man allegedly yelled “Go back to China” and “You are dirty, get your temperature checked," before trying to punch a 26-year-old woman of Asian descent in Brooklyn as described by Wes Parnell for The New York Daily News.
A 33-year old woman reportedly blamed a 34-year-old Asian woman for the spread of the new coronavirus, spat in her face, and attacked her, as detailed by Tina Moore and Daniel Cassady in The New York Post. That’s right, a woman who spat in someone’s face blamed that person for spreading SARS-CoV2.
A stranger allegedly followed a 47-year-old man of Asian-descent and his 10-year-old son yelling racial epithets and eventually hitting the man on the head. You haven’t had a real father-son moment until you’ve been followed by a stranger and hit on the head.
A stranger reportedly punched a 23-year-old Korean woman in the face and allegedly yelled at her "Where's your (expletive) mask" and "You've got coronavirus, you Asian (expletive)." Punching is usually not part of the Covid-19 coronavirus testing procedure.
A teen kicked a 59-year-old man of Asian-descent whom the teen didn’t know in the back, calling the man a “(expletive) Chinese coronavirus,” and telling the man to go back to his country. Yes, it seems like a teen told a man that he was a virus, not infected with or carrying a virus, but one gigantic virus. He also told the man to go back to his country when the man was already in his country.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2 ... d73ae0148a
And still, you couldn’t care less. The reason is obvious.
Call the virus the “novel coronavirus”. You may also call it by its official name, “SARS-CoV-2”. Another option is to use the name of the associated clinical disease, “Covid-19”. You can even just use your original thread title, “All things CoronaVirus”. Any of those would be perfectly fine.
But no ... you insist on using “Chinese CoronaVirus”.
Be honest, you want to do your small part in further inciting anti-Asian bigotry, don’t you? Am I wrong about that?
If I’m wrong, then prove me wrong and change the title of this thread to one of the non-offensive titles above, and I will be the first to thank you and express my sincere appreciation.
I will even offer you an apology.
Prove me wrong ... please.
DocBarrister