The absurd charge that Donald Trump was racist in naming the cause of the current pandemic the “China virus” is once more being heard as unprovoked attacks on Asians are being blamed on him. Despite the fact that most of those attacks for which surveillance video is available seem to be the product of African Americans, a group whose support for Trump is among the lowest of all demographic slices of the public. But a friend of mine pointed out that the media are perfectly fine with naming the new variants of the virus – about which we are supposed...