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these viewpoints are just so incredibly callous. This naming convention is contributing to real persecution against real people. That's all the justification an
by bllguo 7y ago
these viewpoints are just so incredibly callous. This naming convention is contributing to real persecution against real people. That's all the justification anyone needs to change. Who cares what the convention used to be?
- JPKab 7y agoWhat persecution? Do you personally know anybody who is going to attack a Chinese person, or person of Chinese descent, for the origin of the virus? Do you know a single person who would do this? I think that in an effort to guard against the absolute lowest common denominator of human behavior, a lot of people's paternalistic tendencies come out. Treating people like children to keep everyone safe. It's the justification for censorship used by every authoritarian regime. Ironically, the attitude of shaping the publicity of knowledge to shape human behavior is exactly what caused the police to detain this hero for having the audacity to talk to his colleagues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang