Calling the coronavirus the ‘Chinese virus’ matters – research connects the label with racist bias

The Conversation ^ | 2/18/22 | Brad Bushman Professor of Communication and Rinehart Chair of Mass Communication, The Ohio State Un

[Mariner]

Chinese is not a race.

[Pete Dovgan]

I think if your going to make biological weapons,(Gain of Function),and release them, that they should name the virus after the nation that manufactured it and released it.

I don’t think this would be rascist. It would remind the world of such treachery against other humans forever.

[Indy Pendance]

That hurts their communist feelings.

[Cobra64]

Who cares what the Chinese think or do? They’re thieves and murderers.

[butlerweave]

racist bias ,sustainable , renewable = leftest crap

[edwinland]

When the WHO suddenly does a 180 and invents a new rule against their own standard practice (e.g. naming Ebola after the Ebola River) the new rule does not become part of the natural law.

[right way right]

Well, let’s start calling it the faucivirus or election year virus or the thou shall not gather in groups to protest unless your black virus.

[Lurker]

Someone needs to shut these people up.

L

[ETCM]

Calling the coronavirus the ‘Chinese virus’ matters – research connects the label with racist bias the truth, and focuses attention on the creation of the virus in a Chinese Bioweapons research lab.

There, I fixed the headline.

[Vendome]

Naw

FU

It is the Wu Flu, Chinese Virus and represents the geographic origination, as well, their cultural failure.

Race isn’t a factor

[verum ago]

Well now, let's see:

the natural 'base' virus was Chinese in origin

the 'enhancements' to it were done by a Chinese lab

The initial, originating outbreak was in China

The initial cover-up was done by the Chinese government

So what's the f***ing problem with terminology here?!

[neverevergiveup]

Exactly!

[neverevergiveup]

Is ordering ‘Chinese food’ racist?

[Not A Snowbird]

Truth isn’t bias, racial or otherwise. It’s just… truth.

[enumerated]

China is not a race.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Just calling something “racist” is just another form of censorship.

[rdcbn1]

The Hong Kong Flu

[absalom01]

Hmmmm how about CCP lab created bioweapon? Is that racist?

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I am over half German and it has never occurred to me that “German measles” is a slur on me or my ancestral homeland.

If China wants wants to avoid being associated with deadly diseases, it needs to stop the lab work and disgusting lifestyle practices that create and spread deadly diseases.

[Vehmgericht]

Spanish flu, German measles, democrat dementia. What’s the problem?