Showing posts with label Chinese virus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinese virus. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Asian couple targeted for racist abuse echoing Trump’s ‘Chinese virus’ slurs – Raw Story

An Asian American couple in Minnesota found a racist note taped to their front door blaming them for the coronavirus. Alvin Moua returned to his townhouse after work and crumpled up the note before showing his wife, who smoothed it out, took a photo and posted it on Facebook, reported City Pages.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/asian-couple-targeted-for-racist-abuse-echoing-trumps-chinese-virus-slurs/

Sunday, March 22, 2020

Why Trump started calling the coronavirus the "Chinese Virus."

From a high-resolution photograph of Donald Trump’s printed-out remarks for his Thursday press conference, we know two things: the first is that Trump’s speech was printed out for him in a huge font and protected by a plastic page protector. The second was that the visible page of the speech was unmarked except in one place: Where the word “Corona” in “Corona Virus” (two words) had been crossed out with a Sharpie and replaced with a word in distinctive penmanship printed in all caps: CHINESE. ....
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/trump-calling-coronavirus-chinese-virus.html

Thursday, March 19, 2020

Trump says 'keep politics out' of coronavirus then picks fight with Democrats

Donald Trump picked fights with Democrats on Tuesday even as he called for them to “keep politics out” of the battle against what he called, in a return to nationalist rhetoric, “the Chinese virus”. ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/17/donald-trump-coronavirus-politics-andrew-cuomo-gretchen-whitmer








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