UC Tells Students ‘Do Not’ Say ‘Chinese Virus' And 'Do Not Allow' Others To Say It Either

Campus Reform ^ | 03/28/20 | Arik Schneider

[Enlightened1]

• The University of California system has issued a set of guidelines directing students and employees how to speak about the coronavirus from Wuhan, China.
• The document directly tells students what names they should use for the virus.
• One student responded by pointing out that “The Chinese government has actively contributed to the spread of this deadly virus."

The Council of Chief Diversity Officers at the University of California released a “guidance document” to announce “supportive positive and inclusive campus climates during the COVID-19 crisis.”

The list begins by telling students to “reject racism, sexism, xenophobia and all hateful or intolerant speech, both in person and online,” and to “Be an ‘up-stander,’ and discourage others from engaging in such behavior.”

“Do not use terms such as ‘Chinese Virus’ or other terms which cast either intentional or unintentional projections of hatred toward Asian communities, and do not allow the use of these terms by others,” the university tells students and faculty, insisting that all members of the campus community refer to the virus as only “COVID-19” OR “coronavirus” in all “oral and written communications.”

Officials from all UC campuses signed the guidance document, which functions as an instruction sheet for all faculty, students, and staff.

"While certain concerns of bigotry directed towards persons of Asian descent might be warranted, this UC policy implicitly attributes a malicious motive to those who refer to the coronavirus as the ‘Chinese virus’ and that is laughable,” External VP of the UC Berkeley College Republicans Rudra Reddy told Campus Reform.

“The Chinese government has actively contributed to the spread of this deadly virus by obscuring information about the outbreak and spreading devious rumors trying to assign blame to the American military,” Reddy added. 

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Fine. I’ll just call it the Ching Chong Ding Dong Virus (apologies to Stephen Colbert).

Coronavirus DANG! #WuFlu #KungFlu #ChineseVirus #ChineseBatSoupFlu #WuhanCoronavirus

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

CCP-19
Chicomm Virus
Xi Virus

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

LOL!

[vigilence]

You overlooked the step where Chinese money is funneled to colleges and universities that consider themselves to be research colleges that use students to develop technologies patented by the college for protection in the west but siphoned off to China surreptitiously.

[SaraJohnson]

Do not allow others to say what they want to say? Little dictators in the making!

[John Milner]

Is UC also censoring use of the phrase “Orange Man Bad?”

[lowbridge]

"The University of California system has issued a set of guidelines directing students and employees how to speak about the coronavirus"

[tbpiper]

unintentional projections of hatred Is this a subset of "micro aggressions"?

[AppyPappy]

I thank Allah and the Prophet (pbuh) for protecting me from the China Virus.

Your move, CA.

[metmom]

Don’t “allow”????

Tolerant little dictators aren’t they?

[rovenstinez]

I wonder is the Spanish ever showed resistance for calling it the Spanish Flu. I refer to it honestly for what it is. A Spade is a Spade.. Chinese Flu.

[mdmathis6]

Okay, I’ll just say “China Virus”!