Talk show host Bill Maher recently defended calling the coronavirus the “Chinese virus.” Maher’s argument was not original: “When they named Lyme disease after a town in Connecticut, the locals didn’t get all ticked off.” Chinese is an ethnicity. Imagine if we referred to Lyme Disease as the “white disease,” given that the majority of Old Lyme town is white today.
“We can’t stop telling the truth because racists get the wrong idea,” Maher added. According to an analysis obtained by ABC News, the FBI predicts a wave of hate crimes against Asian-Americans based on the assumption that “a portion of the U.S. public will associate COVID-19 with China and Asian American populations.” The FBI’s warning proved prophetic. Over the past several weeks, an Asian-American woman was spat on in the streets of San Fransico. And an Asian-American man and his 10-year-old son were harassed, followed, and then assaulted in New York. Both assailants reportedly yelled an expletive about China before each incident.
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