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Trump just called Coronavirus "Kung Flu"(Update: Repeats it)
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so does kellyanne still think it's offensive now?
thehill.com
Kellyanne Conway says it’s ‘highly offensive’ to refer to coronavirus as ‘kung flu’
Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday called reports of a White House official referring to COVID-19 as the “kung flu” virus “highly offensive” after a journalist pressed her repe…
thehill.com
While literally admitting they slowed down testing because they didn't like the numbers?
Can't put out fires if you don't admit the building is burning in the first place, I guess.
Did they not like it, or do they not like that it's more ammo to be used against him? Because it's painfully obvious they don't fucking care about how grotesquely incapable he is of any kind of ethical leadership.
>so does kellyanne still think it's offensive now?
Kellyanne Conway says it’s ‘highly offensive’ to refer to coronavirus as ‘kung flu’
Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday called reports of a White House official referring to COVID-19 as the “kung flu” virus “highly offensive” after a journalist pressed her repe…
It would not surprise me if Trump drops one or more obscure racial epithets in one or more of his future rallies.
"Sir! Sir! How dare you sir!"
Yeah, he's proven time and time again that he is a dipshit who stirs up his fans by saying stuff that offends liberals like overt racism. This is not the first time and it won't be the last. This doesn't surprise me at all. He's a fascist troll and this is bait. He's chumming the waters as he almost always does. The other day he claimed to have invented Juneteenth and a few days before that he claimed that George Floyd is in heaven, happy about Trump's job numbers. Liberals get outraged while mostly uneducated conservative shitheads cheer because the people they hate are getting angry. It takes over the news cycle. He is then reaffirmed as the hero that they all wanted.
Yeah, he's proven time and time again that he is a dipshit who stirs up his fans by saying stuff that offends liberals like overt racism. This is not the first time and it won't be the last. This doesn't surprise me at all. He's a fascist troll and this is bait. He's chumming the waters as he almost always does. The other day he claimed to have invented Juneteenth and a few days before that he claimed that George Floyd is in heaven, happy about Trump's job numbers. Liberals get outraged while mostly uneducated conservative shitheads cheer because the people they hate are getting angry. It takes over the news cycle. He is then reaffirmed as the hero that they all wanted.
The most encouraging thing about tonight was in fact the small crowd.
If they stopped going to his crazy Joe Pesci impersonation rallies, they might stop going to the polls for him too.
If they stopped going to his crazy Joe Pesci impersonation rallies, they might stop going to the polls for him too.
One of my favorite podcasts did an episode on an episode of Scooby Doo that was super racist with Asian stereotypes.
This would have fit right in.
This would have fit right in.
Karen-anne Conway don't care.
She will just dance around the question just like she always does.
While I definitely agree it shouldn't be called the wuhan virus or the china virus. A previous corona virus is still officially called MERS or (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) and you still have cases of the west nile flu/fever (even though I've only heard of it in America and every Egyptian I've asked has no idea what I'm talking about)
The thread is about Trump calling it "kung flu."
Even if it were remotely comparable to your examples at face value, no is calling MERS that so that someone in power can avoid taking responsibility for the deaths of people affected by it.
I've seen a lot of uproar at just calling it the Chinese virus and wuhan virus and how racist that is. But it was in more general covid threads so I never brought it up. And I don't see how calling it the chinese virus or any other dumb name absolves anyone from taking the responsibility.
Are you not paying attention to Trump's use of it? He's obviously trying to spin the situation as "I've done everything I could here, and did it marvelously. If you want to be mad at someone, be mad at China."
And every time time it happens, we have to call it out as the disgusting bullshit it is.
The biggest problem with these sorts of things is how they spread from the rally. His cultists go to work and repeat the president's shitty jokes and then everyone has to do diversity training to protect the company from hostile workplace lawsuits. Only since the president said it, it gives the shitty joke this undeserved legitimacy as, "just someone's opinion," within the window of allowed opinions rather than a racist statement that you would just get fired over.
Have people been getting racially attacked in the street over MERS or West Nile?
He clearly wasn't calling it that, he is just saying he has heard that name. There now I'm the press secretary for tomorrow.
There certainly wasn't a lot of well wishes when folks in Asia get hit by Coronavirus via proximity to China at first. In fact, you could make a case of heightened discrimination and assault even now when America and Europe blast past Asia in tally.
Coronavirus is just the excuse for some people to act out their racism. Trump does well in emboldening them.
Coronavirus is just the excuse for some people to act out their racism. Trump does well in emboldening them.
Then that shifts the argument from "he shouldn't call it that because it is racist" to "he shouldn't call it that because it will incite violence against innocent people". Because if it is the former, then this whole naming a virus after it's geographic origin point is a double standard and should be stopped in general, not just when trump uses it. If it's the second then people need to clarify that and not just call it racist.
"They call this thing 19 different names, I can tell you 19 names they call this thing"
*proceeds to literally list only one dumb offensive name"