Tuesday, March 17, 2020

I shouldn't have to say this

...but, "Don't be racist!"  Yes, the current U.S. president refers to COVID-19 as "Chinese", but that doesn't mean anyone else has to. I've seen this argument, "But, that's how we name viruses", and then there's a reference to the "Spanish flu" of 1918.

That was 1918. A lot of racist expressions were acceptable at the time. More than a century later, we can do better, can't we?

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