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Or maybe some people thought that serious accusations like this require evidence and looked askance upon Trump's xenophobic blame-shifting and hate-mongering. "
by jonnycomputer 5y ago
Or maybe some people thought that serious accusations like this require evidence and looked askance upon Trump's xenophobic blame-shifting and hate-mongering. "the China virus" he likes to say.
And we see the consequences with old Asian ladies being punched in streets by young white thugs.
I've personally always held it as a possibility. But no way I'll defend the Trump administration on this.
- joemazerino 5y ago> And we see the consequences with old Asian ladies being punched in streets by young white thugs. Speaking of hate-mongering..are we seeing the same data on anti-Asian attacks?
- jonnycomputer 5y agoIf you have data, cough it up joe.
- jonnycomputer 5y agoLet me see if I can say restate this more clearly. I have always accepted the possibility that the virus escaped from a lab in China. However, like many other Americans, I refused to be drawn into public speculation about it by people, like Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, with a political and ideological interest in stoking xenophobia. In particular, I saw their attempt to blame China--before definitive evidence was acquired--as an attempt to shift blame away for the Trump administration's dismal response to the virus to external actors. And yes, we have seen a rise in anti-Asian hate crime and sinophobia in America, largely as a result of this kind of rhetoric.