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Itâs a âyoinkâ moment here, too
Yesterday, I had a Trump supporter tell me to âstop playing the blame gameâ and stop blaming âPresidentâ (sic) Trump. Three days ago, this idiot posted on Facebook that the coronavirus pandemic is a conspiracy. I get asked occasionally, âWhy donât you unfriend these hateful and stupid people?â Because I want to know the latest arguments and talking points theyâre using. I want to know the daily outrage.
Usually, the daily outrage is âObama, Obama, Obama.â Others over the past few months have been Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, the Superbowl halftime show, the âmedia,â and invisible things that persecute Trump cultists. Itâs kinda crept up slowly, but now the outrage is China.
Itâs often debated, is Fox News leading Trump or is Trump leading Fox News? Itâs both. This time, itâs Fox News giving the talking point to Donald Trump. This time, itâs the âChina virus.â
Fox News anchors have been calling the coronavirus the âChinese virusâ and the âWuhan virus.â Why? because itâs a racist trope that caters to the racist base that makes up their viewership and it deflects blame from Donald Trump.
Now, Trump is using the term âChinese virus.â He said itâs ânot racist at allâ and in explaining why he uses it, he said, âIt comes from China. Thatâs why.â He also said he was trying to combat a disinformation campaign by China that the virus was started by the U.S. military. He said, âI didnât appreciate the fact that China was saying that our military gave it to them. I think saying that our military gave it to them creates a stigma.â
Itâs true that China has started a propaganda campaign placing blame on the United States. Itâs also true that Trump and his team are waging a disinformation and hate campaign in return. The Secretary of State has referred to it as the âWuhan virusâ at least six times. The Trump campaign said on its website, âAmerica is under attack â not just by an invisible virus, but by the Chinese.â That creates a stigma.
Kellyanne Conway said Donald Trump was trying to be âaccurateâ and, âI think what the president is saying is that is where it was first started.â Republican fucknut Senator Charles Grassley tweeted, âI donât understand why China gets upset bc we refer to the virus that originated there the âChinese virusâ Spain never got upset when we referred to the Spanish flu in 1918&1919.â No one is sure where the Spanish Flu originated, with many saying Spain, China, Austria, a UK military camp in France, andâŚKansas. It flared up during World War I with most signs pointing at the worldâs militaries of being the cause and carriers. It got the name âSpanish Fluâ because Spain was neutral and the allies agreed to give them the name, thus removing blame from themselves. Maybe by blaming Spain with the name (and we were recently in a war with them), there wouldnât be any resistance from the European nations we were at war with who were also fighting the pandemic. Anyway, Charles Grassley is an idiot.
Itâs not just hateful to blame the government of China for the virus. Itâs also hateful to people of Chinese descent. Hell, even people descended from other Asian nations are being blamed. There have been reports of attacks and slurs cast at Asian-Americans. Even Trump-supporting white people married to Asians are confused by which Asians to blame.
CBS News reporter Weijia Jiang tweeted, âThis morning a White House official referred to #Coronavirus as the âKung-Fluâ to my face.â Kellyanne demanded the reporter to tell her who said it, thus demanding a reporter to reveal her sources. While Kellyanne said it was wrong to say âKung Flu,â she defended Donald Trumpâs use of âChinese virus.â
Kellyanne pulled out her imaginary Get-Out-Of-Racism-Free card by pointing out sheâs married to an Asian, as George Conway is half-Filipino. That was weird. Sheâs married to the guy and doesnât seem to understand Filipino is not Chinese. Thatâs like saying I canât be prejudiced against Germans because I have English ancestry. Weâre white so we all look alike, right? Is that what Kellyanne was trying to say about her husband and children?
Also, like Europeans can hate other Europeans and Muslim nations hate other Muslim nations, there are Asians who hate Asians. Go to China or Korea (either one) and ask them how they feel about the Japanese. No race is monolithic. Youâd think someone married to someone of a different race would understand that. But, if George hasnât convinced Kellyanne that Donald Trump is a racist grifting conman with brain worms, heâs probably not going to be able to convince her Filipinos and Chinese arenât the same.
China bungled their response to the pandemic. Donald Trump did too. But neither gave us the virus. Both are guilty of making it worse. It would be best for our government not to respond to a hateful propaganda campaign from a communist nation with its own hateful propaganda campaign.
Blaming China takes the heat off Trump. It puts a face on the virus. Itâs catering to the hate in Donald Trumpâs base, which is what Trump and Fox News does best.
The universally recognized terms are âcoronavirusâ and âcovid19.â Calling it anything with an Asian connotation is a distraction and entirely political. Anyone doing so has an agenda, and itâs a hateful agenda. Itâs not about accuracy.
Donald Trump is now referring to himself as a âwartime president.â I found it scary enough when he referred to himself just as âpresident.â During an actual war, President Franklin Roosevelt responded with racism when he put over 120,000 Japanese-Americans in internment campsâŚjust because they were Japanese. If a good president like Roosevelt can do something so hateful and prejudiced, what will a bad, racist, hateful president like Donald Trump do, even if his war is pretend?
Presidents are supposed to bring people together, especially during a crisis. Being presidential is not Donald Trumpâs specialty. Solving a crisis isnât his specialty either. Hate is Donald Trumpâs specialty. Division is his specialty.
The virus isnât prejudiced, racist, or partisan. It doesnât have yellow, black, brown, or white skin. It doesnât care about your tax bracket. Tax cuts will not kill the pandemic. Neither will Donald Trumpâs hate and racism.
Racism is a virus and a plagueâŚjust like Donald Trump.
~Clay Jones
A Regional Grateful Dead Page I am on has posted a couple times âNo Political Postsâ
So of course the tribe had some alternative ideas.
How about naked guy ON a post?
War time Daddy Presidents know best.
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At least, until the next time a Democrat suggests something of the sort.
I was just saying this at home yesterday or the day before. WTF is wrong with this administration?
I donât think this Administration is Americaâs best and brightest.