I Hate To Say I Told You So...
Mar. 25th, 2020 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanThis is primarily for 2 people who left comments on my Journal a couple of weeks ago, when I expressed concern, dismay, disbelief & exasperation at the kind of people who voted & will vote again, for Trump. One respondent told me to calm down, the other told me that it never happens & "never mind" - to whom I responded with a link showing the rise in racially motivated attacks against Hispanic & African American citizens since the Great Pumpkin came to power & started spewing racist bile all over the place
Well, now you can add Asians to that list
Trump doubled down on the name 'Chinese Virus' at a press conference on Wednesday, insisting that using the term is not racist. “It comes from China, that’s why. It comes from China. I want to be accurate,” Trump said.
Trump has received support from his allies who have defended the president for giving coronavirus a new name. “China is to blame because the culture where people eat bats and snakes and dogs and things like that … that’s why China has been a source of a lot of these viruses,” John Cornyn, a Republican senator from Texas, told a reporter when asked if the name was inappropriate.
Trump’s new name for coronavirus comes after weeks of racist attacks against Asian American seen across the country. An Asian woman in New York City wearing a face mask was assaulted and called “diseased” in early February by a stranger in a subway station. In Los Angeles, a man directed a racist rant about coronavirus to a fellow passenger, who is Asian.
One family in Fresno, California, had their car tagged with the word “Fuck Asions … and coronavirus”. A middle school student in California was told by his teacher to go to the nurse’s office after he coughed, though he told his teacher that he choked on water and was not sick. When he asked his teacher why he didn’t ask non-Asian students to go to the nurse after coughing, he was told to “let it go and move on”.
Still, never mind... because according to Baron Waste... "it never happens" But, by all means, don't take my word for it... get out there & read some things that might make you uncomfortable, but might make you think twice... or at least once!!
Well, now you can add Asians to that list
Trump doubled down on the name 'Chinese Virus' at a press conference on Wednesday, insisting that using the term is not racist. “It comes from China, that’s why. It comes from China. I want to be accurate,” Trump said.
Trump has received support from his allies who have defended the president for giving coronavirus a new name. “China is to blame because the culture where people eat bats and snakes and dogs and things like that … that’s why China has been a source of a lot of these viruses,” John Cornyn, a Republican senator from Texas, told a reporter when asked if the name was inappropriate.
Trump’s new name for coronavirus comes after weeks of racist attacks against Asian American seen across the country. An Asian woman in New York City wearing a face mask was assaulted and called “diseased” in early February by a stranger in a subway station. In Los Angeles, a man directed a racist rant about coronavirus to a fellow passenger, who is Asian.
One family in Fresno, California, had their car tagged with the word “Fuck Asions … and coronavirus”. A middle school student in California was told by his teacher to go to the nurse’s office after he coughed, though he told his teacher that he choked on water and was not sick. When he asked his teacher why he didn’t ask non-Asian students to go to the nurse after coughing, he was told to “let it go and move on”.
Still, never mind... because according to Baron Waste... "it never happens" But, by all means, don't take my word for it... get out there & read some things that might make you uncomfortable, but might make you think twice... or at least once!!
