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Article: Repeatedly Calling It A Chinese Virus Is Racist And A Deflection Of Blame By Alan Lee, Esq.

March 20, 2020

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The US has had a long history of racism against Chinese, beginning with the
1871 Chinese massacre in Los Angeles, 1882 Chinese exclusion laws, 1921 and
1924 immigration laws establishing a national origins formula to further
exclude Asians and others, yellow peril stories beginning in the early
1900s epitomized by the Fu Manchu character in the 1930s, and jingoistic
mistrust of Chinese during the Cold War and now under a Trump
administration at war with the Chinese over trade and which nation will
lead in the 21<sup>st</sup> century.
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Against this background, Mr. Trump is aggressively inflaming Americans
against persons of East Asian origin in the country by repeatedly calling
the novel coronavirus the “Chinese virus,” while another in his
administration just referred to it as the “Kung flu.” Inflammation appears
to be working even in a city as diverse and ethnically tolerant as New York
as seen even in this law firm’s anecdotal experience of one of our
Chinese-American staff member’s two incidents within the past week, one
that she witnessed of a man on the New York subway threatening Asians
wearing face masks when one coughed, and the other this morning of another
man cursing her when she lightly coughed (right outside Penn Station) with
her mask on.
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This constant emphasis on blaming the Chinese has escalated tensions across
the country and highlighted Asian businesses to such a negative degree that
business owners have faced colossal losses even though just about all
Chinese-American citizens, permanent residents originating from China, and
visitors from China are virus free due to the China travel ban, and the
riskiest populations are from Europe and the Middle East with Italy and
Iran leading in current contagious spread. In New York City, much of the
infection was spread by a Jewish attorney from New Rochelle.
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While saying the term once or twice serves as a denial to the China made
rumor that the new coronavirus was brought to China by the US military
(obviously someone in China read about the origins of the Spanish flu of
1918), the world at large is already cognizant of its origins. Yet Mr.
Trump is using a megaphone consistently to assign blame to a known fact.
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To what end the blame? The answer is diversion from the horrible job that
the president has done from the very beginning to contain the virus. From
abolishing the National Security Council Directorate for Global Health and
Security and Bio Defense to believing that he could “wall” off the
coronavirus to saying that it was a “hoax” and not taking it seriously to
not having a plan in place and failing miserably to listen to public health
experts and coordinate government response early in the crisis, his
handling of the situation has been haphazard and dumbfounding. While Hong
Kong and Singapore have solved the coronaviruses in their countries through
huge amounts of testing and contact tracing, the US has fallen so far
behind that it appears the only viable strategy is social distancing and
lockdowns.
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Mr. Trump is clearly not an advocate of Harry Truman’s famous desk sign,
“The Buck Stops Here,” but an advocate of buckpassing. Repeated and
continual use of the “Chinese virus” term is an attempt to deflect blame.
Yet we do not need a president in this crisis to throw off blame and in so
doing put the lives and property of Asians in this country at peril, but a
president who accepts the blame without caring whether he is reelected or
not, and moves the country forward to solve the predicament.
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