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Trump tweets about the "Chinese virus" UP: Trump: "It's not racist at all"/Official White House position: It's the media's fake outrage
- Thread starter ElectricBlanketFire
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President is speaking and every time he says something stupid stocks ratchet slightly lower.
He started by calling it "the Chinese virus" and with five second delay stocks immediately halted slight uptick and began to decline more rapidly.
Claims the test is "not very nice I can tell you but I did it!" Arrested Development Narrator: "he didn't do it "
Then he said "enacting defense production act you all know what that is I don't have to tell you" DROPPO
Then "international Red Cross ship its a big white ship with a big Red Cross!" DROPPO
The crazy thing is that there are people making and losing large sums of money trying to time this stupidity.
At that time it was indeed a "Wuhan Coronavirus". It is global now.
Also, it is not a "China Virus"
Context is important. Then it was a descriptor, now it is blame.
Time to finally rename the Spanish/1918 flu to the "Kansas Flu" or "American Flu".
Good god drumpf just got asked if using the term "kung flu" was ok
And he agreed, because it comes from China
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And he agreed, because it comes from China
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He just doubled down on saying "Kung Flu" was an appropriate term too. Repeated it like 5x and said it was fine because even asian americans would know it was right and accurate. Jesus fucking christ.
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I'm going to be very good money that if the US asked for help from China they will say yes. They have been saying that they will for a while.
But this country would rather let people die than do that.
Trump overt and petty racism is not new but it is a rather dismal sign of what's to come. Initially, I thought the CCP's feeble attempt to lie about the origin of the virus was merely fodder for it's own population. Now though, I'm wondering if it's actually an attempt to head off the inevitable rage the rest of the world will feel once this all sets in. The deaths, the massive economic loss, the effects of an extended quarantine; people will want answers and someone or something to blame. And there will be no shortage of worldwide leaders looking to deflect responsibility for their own failures in responding to the crisis.
Given the sheer scope of all this, I think we can expect at the very least, global pressure on China to crack down on the wet markets.
Given the sheer scope of all this, I think we can expect at the very least, global pressure on China to crack down on the wet markets.
This rage is not inevitable, it's how Trump will try to deflect blame for this, and I'm not sure why a ton of people in this forum seem to be cheering for this course of action.
This is what happens when you put Stephen Miller in charge of White House propaganda.
Damn I wish I saved the tweet but it was; " I'm going to call it white mass shootings from this point forward". Sounds like a great idea to me.
The WHO purposefully stopped naming viruses after their region of origin for the creation of irrational fear among the population against certain ethnic groups. Irrational fear that leads to hate crimes such as someone attempting to murder an Asian family like this that happened two days ago. One of the family members injured being a child:
www.cbs7.com
There is a graphic image of said child's condition which I won't post for obvious reasons. Anyone with any sense knows what naming the coronavirus like this will do. The Trump administration especially knows that and is doing this purposefully to create a scapegoat due to their abysmal handling of containing the virus and not taking it seriously enough. Continuously name it the "Chinese Coronavirus" and it will stick. As a result, irrational Americans will do what they do best in targeting specific ethnic groups that fall within that name. Asians will be the ones vilified instead of the shoddy and incompetent administration at fault.
FIRST ON CBS7: Suspect admits he tried to kill family at Midland Sam's Club
The 19-year-old who investigators say stabbed and cut four people at the Midland Sam's Club Saturday told police he was attempting to kill a family shopping in the store, according to an arrest affidavit.
www.cbs7.com
There is a graphic image of said child's condition which I won't post for obvious reasons. Anyone with any sense knows what naming the coronavirus like this will do. The Trump administration especially knows that and is doing this purposefully to create a scapegoat due to their abysmal handling of containing the virus and not taking it seriously enough. Continuously name it the "Chinese Coronavirus" and it will stick. As a result, irrational Americans will do what they do best in targeting specific ethnic groups that fall within that name. Asians will be the ones vilified instead of the shoddy and incompetent administration at fault.
The thing is, he's doing the "China Virus" shit all of the sudden to try to divert blame, when that's not even the common name everyone has been calling it.
So if a pandemic starts in the US, can I call it the US Flu or the Washington Virus or the Florida Coronavirus? Got it!
Erm, carriers of Covid-19 in China were conduits for the virus, not the creators, its clearly racist to blame an entire population, especially now with the increase in hate crimes. This man is responsible for exacerbating hostile sentiment against south americans, 2 massacres last year, he just doesnt stop.
Nathan McDermott @natemcdermottTrump only started calling the "Chinese Virus" within the last two days.
Between January and March 15th, he referred to it as the "coronavirus", at least on Twitter anyway, 41 times.
Since March 16th he hasn't called it the "coronavirus" once.
I note this, not because it's the most important thing in the world right now, but because when he and others act like they've always called it that it's clearly not true.
At some point, for his own calculations, he decided it'd be better it call it something else.
Between January and March 15th, he referred to it as the "coronavirus", at least on Twitter anyway, 41 times.
Since March 16th he hasn't called it the "coronavirus" once.
I note this, not because it's the most important thing in the world right now, but because when he and others act like they've always called it that it's clearly not true.
At some point, for his own calculations, he decided it'd be better it call it something else.
2:57 PM - Mar 18, 2020
Nick Confessore @nickconfessoreSomewhat surprising to me that they didn't pivot to this messaging a little sooner. https://twitter.com/natemcdermott/status/1240350680637980672 …
3:34 PM - Mar 18, 2020
This has Stephen Miller written all over. No doubt in my mind that it was him that advised trump on the change of language.
Does that mean we can start calling Trump a pussy at every opportunity? I mean, he came out of one. Seems only fair.
