Mar 20, 2020 -- 1:57AM, akabula wrote:
Lets ignore the fact that the Chinese suppressed the news of the outbreak and lets forget the threats they made to the doctor who discovered the virus.BTW Layla Moron (tipped to be next leader of the LibDems) branded a Nigel Farage comment as racial hatred.What did Nigel say to trigger her. He pointed out the virus was of Chinese origin.
“Mexicans are “rapists”. Muslims should be “banned” from entering America. Black and Hispanic members of Congress should “go back” to where they came from. Immigrants hail from “**** countries”. White supremacist groups contain some “very fine people”.
The debate about whether Donald Trump repeatedly calling the coronavirus outbreak a “Chinese virus” represents an act of racism or not must surely be one of the most pointless debates since mediaeval scholastics squabbled about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin.
Simply look at the man’s long and consistent record of xenophobia and then judge whether he’s using the label “Chinese virus” in a factual and entirely innocent way, as he insists.
It’s really not worth wasting any intellectual bandwidth on this question.
Similar argument for Fromage.

Mar 20, 2020 -- 6:42PM, saddo wrote:
Angoose 20 Mar 20 15:52 Trump very deliberately referring to COVID-19 as the "Chinese virus" in his daily statement.What a ****.You've been repeating this all day, no one cares very much or they'd have joined in.
You are talking mince, angoose hasn't been saying it all day. I care very much if Trump continues to humiliate himself.


According to Scottish ONS