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It's nice they're trying, but naming won't solve bigotry. COVID's cultural path was locked in stone as soon as news outlets first reported that it came from a W
by superchroma 4y ago
It's nice they're trying, but naming won't solve bigotry. COVID's cultural path was locked in stone as soon as news outlets first reported that it came from a Wuhan wet market. It didn't take an unfortunate name for
monkeypox for people to get it in their minds that straight people cannot catch the disease, either.
- kristjank 4y agoWet markets were a known public health-threatening factor, and I don't see how it's not rightful to attribute the outbreak of a disease that crippled the whole planet to the repeated and continuous malpractice of a well-defined group of people.
- superchroma 4y agoI was not making a comment on wet markets or even the appropriateness of usage of geographical names in virus naming conventions, merely about the boarder goal of fighting bigotry through neutral naming.