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Re:The U.S. has a long history of blaming Asian immigrants f... by cheeze on Monday March 30, 2020 @12:03PM (#22729069)
It seems obvious why this happens when the disease originates in CN. Especially in the case of COVID where there were "bat soup" stories. If the black plague started back up in the states, folks would be blaming the US, no?

How much of this is just population though? I'm admittedly not super knowledgeable here.

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Re:The U.S. has a long history of blaming Asian immigrants f... by ferest on Monday March 30, 2020 @01:34PM (#22730120)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_as_food

"Some media outlets, including Daily Mail and RT, promoted a video that showed a young Chinese woman eating a bat and suggested it was shot in Wuhan, but later it was confirmed that the footage was filmed by travel vlogger Wang Mengyun in the island country of Palau in 2016, to showcase local cuisine"

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Re:The U.S. has a long history of blaming Asian immigrants f... by afiler on Monday March 30, 2020 @01:25PM (#22730033)
When you say it's "obvious why this happens" are you referring to racism or something else?
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