Calling it the "Chinese Virus" has resulted in Americans getting attacked

[mainer]

They may not be white, but Asian Americans are Americans. And many of them are health professionals.

As the coronavirus upends American life, Chinese-Americans face a double threat. Not only are they grappling like everyone else with how to avoid the virus itself, they are also contending with growing racism in the form of verbal and physical attacks. Other Asian-Americans — with families from Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Myanmar and other places — are facing threats, too, lumped together with Chinese-Americans by a bigotry that does not know the difference.

In interviews over the past week, nearly two dozen Asian-Americans across the country said they were afraid — to go grocery shopping, to travel alone on subways or buses, to let their children go outside. Many described being yelled at in public — a sudden spasm of hate that is reminiscent of the kind faced by Muslim-Americans and other Arabs and South Asians after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

But unlike 2001, when President George W. Bush urged tolerance of Muslim-Americans, this time President Trump is using language that Asian-Americans say is inciting racist attacks.

Mr. Trump and his Republican allies are intent on calling the coronavirus “the Chinese virus,” rejecting the World Health Organization’s guidance against using geographic locations when naming illnesses, since past names have provoked a backlash.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/chinese-coronavirus-racist-attacks.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

[mainer]

3. Asian Americans are getting attacked. And you blame CCP?

It's Trump and the GOP doing this.

[catsudon]

4. I'm asian american,

I see blacks and muslams ARE being discriminated against in America, daily, multiple times
I don't see asian americans being attacked (I'm sure some are but, don't see them but once in a blue moon?)

[mainer]

5. I'm asian American too. And the article says they are being attacked.

I'm third generation American, and this is the first time in my lifetime that I've seen an American president try to instill hatred against Asians.
There are documented cases of attacks across the country. Just read the article.. I can't believe you can just shrug this off.

[catsudon]

6. and just because he is racist

i'm not going to give him a pass

CCP is promoting this as a 'distraction' from what is going on from real racism against blacks and Muslims

do you know how other chinese in mainland treats people from wuhan/hubei?


CCP is very afraid that one this is over, other countries are going to 算賬


i read the article, my opinion does not change because of what i see with my eyes

[Wounded Bear]

2. Had a poster on another board saying China "sent" the virus here as an attack...

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[Dwild]

7. Trumpandemic

If the virus is a Chinese virus because it originated there shouldnt it be called aTrump Pandemic or Trumpandemic or trumpdemic because he mishandled it?

[Brother Mythos]

8. So, let's all call it "The Trump Virus."

It sounds totally fair to me.

[NBachers]

9. I believe what California Governor Gavin Newsom said on March 20th

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