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Originally Posted by 911pcars
Nick,
You underestimate the ability of lazy minds to latch onto a grain of truth and run with it. I think mankind has a propensity to explain the origin of a mysterious strain of death, then assign blame to some place or group solely based on pop news repetition.
The Spanish flu reportedly wiped out 50-100M. Many scientists over the years studied evidence frozen by time and concluded that, while the flu had spread in Europe, there was earlier evidence of it first appearing "in Kansas in March 1918 and then in April in France, Germany and the United Kingdom."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
Feel free to look elsewhere for other data.
I don't recall anyone else repeatedly nick-naming COVID19, "the Wuhan flu" as much as our just-departed dear leader along with his other pointed, country-of-origin names such as ChinaFlu and KungFlu. His words are followed - about 74M voters or about 47% of votes cast in the last election.
By all accounts, the Spanish flu label should be dropped and more accurately called the US or French or German or English flu. Racial supremacy adherants will add whatever derogatory term that suits their purpose or stay with Spanish flu. There already is a name for COVID19. Maybe we assign a proper name based on the country with the highest number of COVID cases or fatalities. Uh oh. |
No I really don't... because lazy minds have latched onto a singular reason for an increase in violence against one group. Let's just forget that violence has increased throughout the country! Let's ignore any possibility except for the fact that Trump called it the Wuhan flu! That's how lazy minds work my friend.
The question: Why the increase in violence against Asians?
The lazy mind answer: Someone called a virus the Wuhan flu.
See! I don't discount lazy minds at all. Lazy minds went to the simple answer without even considering that violence has increased in general over the last year due to lockdowns and other things related to the pandemic... But it's clearly Trump calling it the Wuhan flu! SMH
They've used what happened in Georgia as an example of anti Asian violence... even though the person who carried out the act never said anything that would make someone believe that's what it was. Correct me if I'm wrong. But why would a guy who just killed 10 people lie about why he did it? If he's convicted of murder and gets life or the death penalty, having it labeled a hate crime isn't going to add much to it.
I've tried really hard to stay out of this conversation out of respect for Vash but this simpleminded "Trump called it the Wuhan Flu and anyone else who calls it that is part of the problem" is bullsh.t.