Steeling myself for the horrors to come I dug a little deeper. Warning: If you're of a sensitive disposition I advise you to read no further. In an LA Timescolumn entitled ‘It’s just too much’! Asian Americans confront xenophobia, economic devastation and the coronavirus' we learn that 'during a basketball game, two classmates accused his son of having the coronavirus. Lee’s son said a curse word in response, and of the three children, he was punished by school authorities most harshly'. Oh my God! It's like the Cultural Revolution all over again. And this: 'A few weeks ago, she [Cambodian immigrant] was jogging in the park and a man followed her, shouting that she was Chinese and blaming her for bringing the virus to America. She might have dodged bullets and land mines and endured beatings and starvation. But she doesn’t know how she’ll survive this.' Yes, he really did write that. The BBC recounts the shocking attack on four Chinese men in Southampton. By three boys all aged 13 or under! Little wonder the police reported that the 'victims suffered no lasting physical injury'.
And that's pretty much it. Some Asians are being verbally abused, avoided and Asian food outlets are bereft of customers. Not very nice for them but perfectly understandable and rational in the circumstances.
And of course the MSM wouldn't be the MSM without assigning much of the responsibility for this 'hate and racism' to Trump. "Trump promotes racism by calling coronavirus ‘the Chinese virus’" blared a headline in the Guardian. The LA Times writer I referred to ended his article with "Trump has repeatedly shown throughout his presidency that he values his ego over the safety of the American people." But what he actually means is the Asian-American people. Because he's referring to the risk that this minority faces from the 'racism' Trump is supposed to be propagating by referring to the 'Chinese virus'. But it is a Chinese virus. Either from a lab or through their disgusting culinary practices. And if we had no communications with China we wouldn't be going through the current catastrophic lockdown.
And it's not just COVID-19. Most pandemics seem to originate in that region. SARS began as a virus in bats, and as David Cole said, would have stayed that way but for the fact that Chinese people love eating exotic animals which are sold in grotesque “wet markets” where species that wouldn’t normally mix in the wild mix with each other and with humans. Cole quoted numerous scientists on how the “wet markets” are where SARS made the “spillover” from bat to human (through an intermediary carrier—the civet—which is a delicacy in China), and how the next wet-market zoonotic disease would be even worse. He was right. China’s top expert on bat-borne viruses has pointed the finger at the filthy, cruel, disgusting, unhygienic and ultimately lethal practices of these markets. Which by the way are back in operation even in Wuhan. And I've noted that every time the Irish Food Safety Authority publishes its list of offenders it seems dominated by names like Yangste River or Great Wall Takeaway.
We should not be intimidated by the usual point and splutter accusations of racism and instead shine the light where it needs to be shone.
We should not be intimidated by the usual point and splutter accusations of racism and instead shine the light where it needs to be shone.