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Re:Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed by nemothekid on Monday March 22, 2021 @09:17PM (#26549778)
The “power” you are exerting is the one killing innocent American citizens. The CCP doesn’t give a flying fuck that you are calling it China virus. That you would put American lives at risk for some superficial insult at the CCP says you care more about your perceived superiority than actually solving problems pertaining to the virus.

Again it is Americans who are dying, not the Chinese.

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Re:Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed by brankoB on Monday March 22, 2021 @10:48PM (#26550438)
I can't imagine a situation in which someone dies because I used the term China virus.

Also the CCP definitely cares. Negative PR for a country which is a major exporter is a bad thing for the country.

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Re:Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed by nemothekid on Monday March 22, 2021 @11:15PM (#26550612)
>I can't imagine a situation in which someone dies because I used the term China virus.

So the huge growth in asian hate crimes year over year is completely unrelated to this misguided effort to somehow blame China for COVID?

>Also the CCP definitely cares.

The CCP cares so much that they never once made a statement to Trump to stop calling it the china virus. Again it's not the Chinese who said stop calling it the China virus, it was Americans who were correctly fearful of being attacked for being Asian.

>Negative PR for a country which is a major exporter is a bad thing for the country.

This is the most laughable comment. The country that had negative PR for decades about children working in sweatshops and factory workers killing themselves is suddenly going to turn heel about the China virus when it's worked up till now. I remember all that "negative PR" being so successful when it came to Hong Kong.

If negative PR actually mattered, American imperialism wouldn't be so successful. CIA-backed coups all over the world never hurt America's economic position.

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