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Brazil minister offends China with 'racist' virus tweet
AFP ^ | 06/04/2020 | AFP

Posted on 04/08/2020 7:06:56 AM PDT by granada

China demanded an explanation from Brazil Monday after the far-right government's education minister linked the coronavirus pandemic to the Asian country's "plan for world domination," in a tweet imitating a Chinese accent.

In the latest incident to strain ties between Brasilia and Beijing, Education Minister Abraham Weintraub insinuated China was behind the global health crisis.

"Geopolitically, who will come out stronger from this global crisis?" he wrote on Twitter Saturday.

"Who in Brazil is allied with this infallible plan for world domination?"

In the original Portuguese, his tweet substituted the letter "r" with capital "L" -- "BLazil" instead of "Brazil," for example -- in a style commonly used to mock a Chinese accent.

It was also a reference to a character from a popular Brazilian comic strip, "Monica's Gang."

The embassy condemned Weintraub's "absurd and despicable" tweet, calling it "highly racist."

(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brazil; china

1 posted on 04/08/2020 7:06:56 AM PDT by granada
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To: granada

Chuch Fina.


2 posted on 04/08/2020 7:09:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

s/b Chuck Fina


3 posted on 04/08/2020 7:09:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: granada

Oh no! The murderous, disease spreading Lienese are offended!

Who cares.


4 posted on 04/08/2020 7:10:41 AM PDT by chris37 (Coronavirus wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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To: granada
China's collapsing - mocking them will help.

People all over the world are realizing you know 20 years ago the world did fine without China and all its cheap crap - we can again.

The world doesn't need what China has stole and their ground through sick labour force is making. In not so much time everything they have been making will be made elsewhere and better.

China has demonstrated that they are the disgusting culture and nation any objective logical analysis done by a thoughtful person would conclude, further China is run by a coward moronic tyrant Xi Jingpeng, a hapless soon to be extinct wanna be Mao. Just the latest emperor with his boot on the throat of all his peasants.

I smell panic and desperation in this ham handed propaganda blitz.

They so dumb they think it gonna help them

5 posted on 04/08/2020 7:33:52 AM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: granada

China can go and f^^k themselves. Rot in Hell China!


6 posted on 04/08/2020 7:39:09 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: granada

The Wuhan coronavirus did come from China.

The Communist government lied and covered it up allowing it to spread to the rest of the world.

Those are facts.


7 posted on 04/08/2020 7:42:42 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Bloomberg news claimed in their newsreport:
“the ultimate origins of the virus that causes Covid-19 remain a mystery”


8 posted on 04/08/2020 7:47:01 AM PDT by granada
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To: granada

Or in Chinese, THAT'S WACIST!

9 posted on 04/08/2020 7:47:30 AM PDT by McGruff (It came from China)
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To: granada
In the original Portuguese, his tweet substituted the letter "r" with capital "L" -- "BLazil" instead of "Brazil," for example -- in a style commonly used to mock a Chinese accent.


             

10 posted on 04/08/2020 8:10:34 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: granada

No flied lice for you!


11 posted on 04/08/2020 8:13:25 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

And definitely no bat soup!


12 posted on 04/08/2020 8:17:43 AM PDT by Leep (It's another day in stir.)
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To: granada

“That’s racsssiiisss”.
Wonder who China learned that from?


13 posted on 04/08/2020 8:25:06 AM PDT by glasseye ( If 50,000 people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. H. L. Mencken)
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To: granada

The Brazilians are big on joking about everything. Especially something concerning authority figures. Jair Bolsonaro makes wise cracks a lot, sometimes he overdoes it.


14 posted on 04/08/2020 8:35:14 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: tomkat

He needs to take out a full page ad in one of the major newspapers that says the Brazilian/Portuguese equivalent of “ Hey China, you want an apology? Apologize this!” with a an upraised middle finger prominently displayed.


15 posted on 04/08/2020 9:14:12 AM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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To: Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi
Like your attitude   ;-)
16 posted on 04/08/2020 9:36:55 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: granada

The CCP does a great job shutting down the criticism from their own people, but to shut everyone else up, they rely on the political correctness of the kowtowing media. Brazillian media, as well as our own should be roundly condemned for doing China’s job in the field.


17 posted on 04/08/2020 9:54:30 AM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: jimmygrace

I really would love to see an audit to see how much stock in these global media companies are owned by the ChiComs.


18 posted on 04/08/2020 9:58:34 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: tomkat

Thank you.


19 posted on 04/08/2020 10:07:35 AM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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