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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump calls C-19 the 'Chinese Virus' or 'Kung Flu' to divert attention from disastrous response
The coronavirus pandemic has made its way to nearly every country around the world and left devastation in its wake in a matter of six months.
Though the virus has indiscriminately infected millions globally, more than 30% of Americans have witnessed someone blaming people of Asian descent for the coronavirus, according to an Ipsos survey conducted in late April.
President Donald Trump has been no exception, given his penchant to refer to the coronavirus as the "Chinese Virus," or more ungraciously, "Kung Flu," a play-on-words referring to the Chinese martial art of Kung Fu.
Experts on Asian American culture and studies told Business Insider that while the disrespectful moniker could perpetuate dangerous microaggressions against Asian Americans, it also works as a diversion from the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus in the US.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-has-a-penchant-for-calling-the-coronavirus-the-chinese-virus-or-kung-flu-experts-on-asian-culture-said-the-racist-implications-of-the-term-divert-attention-from-the-disastrous-us-response/ar-BB16CqJe?li=BBnb7Kz
Micro aggressions? It's been worse than that.
None the less his attempt at "looky over there" is not going to work when one is faced with the sick and dying.
underpants
(182,279 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,425 posts)This is a "Well, Duh!"
Who doesn't already get this?
Faux pas
(14,583 posts)traitorous hump can call it whatever he wants, he's STILL A MASS MURDERER.
SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)gulliver
(13,142 posts)Just one more example of his "heads I win, tails you lose" con artistry.
Another is his using the explosion in covid cases to sell the lie that America has great testing.
And he wins with these cons when people describe them as fantasies or ignorance or denial. What they are is manipulations.