Deleting a comment after perpetuating a flamewar does nothing to unburn this place. However, we'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that the deletions mean you intend not to do this again.

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I certainly do not intend to do this again. I think under normal times it would not have been as bad. I will take particular care under current circumstances. My sincere apologies to you.

Appreciated! It makes me happy that I guessed right and didn't ban you.

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I'm not sure about "Chinese Virus" but including Wuhan, the place of origin, in the systematic name is standard practice for naming viral strains.

That is no longer the case as of 2015. Place names are no longer used because of the stigmatization issues:

https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2015/naming-new-d...

The WHO named it COVID-19 specifically to change that fact, as it leads to things like Asian-Americans being beat up despite having nothing to do with the virus.

COVID-19 is the disease. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus.

COVID-19 is the term media, the CDC, etc. are using to discuss it. Being pedantic about it doesn't impress anyone.

For example, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html says "Coronavirus (COVID-19)". So does https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2....

The point: WHO has moved away from geolocated names. https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-has-a-name-the-deadl...

cf Marburgvirus

So the Chinese Gov thought the proper way to respond to racism is to fuel misinformation and conspiracy theory?

> racism

China is a country, not a race.

Races only exist in the minds of racists to begin with.

One can argue modern definition of racism has expanded much beyond race. Though I also didn't want to start a pedantic argument on the definition of racism with the original OP. Rather to point out how distastefully the Chinese Gov have acted in response to Trump and Pompeo.

It's not racist to call it the Chinese coronavirus.

YeH, just like bLaCkFAcE is NoT rAciST

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Is it racist to call food in a style that originated from China "Chinese food"?

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How the hell is this anything comparable to blackface?

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It's absolutely possible for group X and group Y to both be discriminatory against each other, and the solution is not to well "Group X is right" - the solution is to treat discrimination, from whomever, as the bad thing.

Technically, those are not examples of racism. The later is intolerance to a (specific?) religion. Not sure about the former.

We should separate Uyghurs/Tibetans and other issue.

Uyghurs/Tibetans are targeted due to their religion. The PRC ideology has no room for religion that puts Entities above nation. Uyghurs themselves have long history of rebellions to the point that nobody knows who started the tit-for-tat incident: the Uyghurs? the Han?

You can have a long-winded argument but if you don't understand their history, culture, and 1 billion problems they have, then you don't "get" why their mindset is like that just like 'Murica with their guns and their "freedom of expression".

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