This is racist, Ilhan Omar scolds Kevin McCarthy for calling illness the “Chinese Coronavirus”.

She’s just an antisemitic hateful moron who supports Israel being erased from the map. Nothing to worry about when govt officials want our allies destroyed. Remind me again how she hasn’t been forcefully removed from office?

 

Australia, China....pretty much the same country.

 

Wuhan Virus is good. If it sticks perhaps people will stop making the mistake of relying on China for so many things.

As for the Jihadist Internationale's champion in the U.S. House of Representatives, self-awareness has never been something Ilhan "Some People Did Something" Omar has been known for.

 

I apologize to all the Moo Goo Gai Pan aficionados whom may be offended by my callous belligerent blasphemous reference to a popular Chinese fast food

 

More evidence that a Democratic POTUS would have allowed infected Chinese nationals to flood into the United States and spread the Wuhan Virus like wildfire because it would have been "racist", "bigoted", "xenophobic" and "nativist" to keep them quarantined in their own country.

 

Hahahaha! A bit of humor to lighten the thread? Good one! Oh wait . . . where you serious?

 

The left doesn’t want the world to be reminded this virus came from conditions created by socialist China

 

Some Trumpies are, chronically, very, very pissy about Congresswoman Omar, and that should be honestly acknowledged in assessing their sniveling in this matter.

Does the specificity of "Chinese coronavirus" in any way distinguish it from other coronaviruses? Canadian coronavirus? Belgian coronavirus? Finnish coronavirus? - Or is it superfluous and gratuitous?

What purpose does insinuating the term "Chinese" into the reference serve?

French troops returning from an invasion of Naples where they had contracted syphilis spread "the French disease" until the accusatory epithet was superseded by the accepted term: syphilis.

As it spread, people usually named it after an enemy or a country they thought responsible for it. The French called it the “Neapolitan disease” or the “Spanish disease”, the English and Italians called it the “French disease.” Germans called it the “French evil.” The Russians called it the “Polish disease.” the Polish and the Persians called it the “Turkish disease”. The Turkish called it the “Christian disease.” the Tahitians called it the “British disease.” in India it was called the “Portuguese disease.” In Japan it was called the “Chinese pox.”

The point is that, a negative imputation can be conveyed by a useless qualifier that targets a nationality.

So, how, precidely, does the "Chinese coronavirus" differ from the "coronavirus"?

 

Yes I am, Mr. Gatewood.

I have frequently called out some of the LW for "PC Run Amok":

http://www.politicalforum.com/index...ender-activists.567286/page-7#post-1071390791

Anyway, as to the OP Topic:

I think Omar was over-reacting to score points with her "base".

 

"Ah gist calls it the Mexican disease!"​

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You can add Don Lemon and Acosta to the list of the nut bags..

Don Lemon threw a tantrum last night over nothing and Acosta things its "racist" to call it a "foreign virus" when he himself called it "Wuhan Coronavirus"... Thus calling himself ..... racist...

 

I would ask this question: What's the point of calling it a Chinese virus? The virus infects all people equally and has spread over much of the world. It's point of origin doesn't change the information on how to stop it's spread, so what was his intention? I don't know his intention, but if he was trying to be accurate about which virus is currently the source of attention COVID-19 is it's name, which means Corona Virus Disease 2019.

Oh and there's a chance Omar is a descendent of Semites, so it's hard to be anti-self.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Semite

In fact, the founder of Islam, Ishmael, was Isaac's brother and both were Semites. And the Semites may have been a group that encompassed much of Africa, though it's not known for sure.

 

I saw the actual tantrum from Lemon I think you are referring to. Was it the fact that the president of the United States announced a travel ban that included trade goods from Europe, and then he had to quickly correct that because either 1) no one proofed the speech prior to him giving it, or 2) he didn't read it properly. The issue, and while Don was a bit over the top with it, is that this isn't amateur hour. Imagine if JFK got the Cuban missile crisis wrong during his address. Or if Bush Jr got his post 9/11 address wrong. No, you take time to ensure you are saying what you MEAN to say. Trump doesn't do that or doesn't have enough White Staff to ensure that outcome. It's sloppy, lazy work and that should be upsetting to Americans as a whole.

I didn't see the Tapper comments so I have no comment on those.

 

COVID-19 aka the Wuhan virus aka the Chinese virus aka the Wet Market virus. NFBD.

 

so I guess people should call 2009 swine flu, US swine flu virus too? or eblola as Africa virus or mad cow disease as mad US cow disease? jeez, virus can come from any place including US. what happen if people start calling 2009 swine flu as US pig virus, that doesn't sound right and its demeanor. what about whopping cough, polio and many other type of virus, should we just label every single one with origin of the country?

So yea its racist!! imagine some foreign dude calling American 2009 pandemic as US pig virus, think about that. FYI 2009 swine flu kill over 500,000 people worldwide, should other country ask US to apologize? so if we don't want other calling us like that, maybe we shouldn't doing the same.

 

Patient ZERO.

 

So,

"Chinese coronavirus" vs "Coronavirus"?

No, no difference whatsoever. The gratuitous specification serves no practical purpose, akin to always specifying "France, Europe" when "France" will suffice.

 

Wuhan Wet Market virus is another good name.

 

Knowing where something started is important, for other outbreaks of other stuff as well, but hey, wees bees racist or homophobic (especially when calling for the closing of bath houses) for trying to trace it and stop it before it becomes an epidemic or pandemic:

"Dugas was particularly helpful in tracing his network of partners, providing names and addresses for many of them, which was further expanded because others remembered his distinctive name.[13] Although many of the patients analyzed reported in excess of 1000 sexual partners, most remembered "only a handful" of names, making their contacts to other cases more difficult to trace" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaëtan_Dugas

 

There are a number of pretty startling things about this virus. Like, for example, how almost the entire Iranian leadership were exposed to the virus. The optics of that... Could China be that cold hearted that after their Iranian puppets failed to strike a blow against the US that they inflicted them with this? And, because it happened in China, it got away from them.. and it got out. I'm not the only one that has made this observation, but it does seem pretty clear that the origin of this virus is China. Calling it Chinese Flu, or Chinese coronavirus isn't racist. It's accurate. Poor Omar... she must be so conflicted... Maybe she didn't read that there is an allegation that the Chinese gov are harvesting organs from Muslim prisoners to save high ranking Chinese government folks yet........

 

I'm so damn glad I was born in the USA, the best country in the entire world by far.

 

I would simply point out that the Cuban missile crisis was, in fact, the product of Kennedy and his administration being amateur hour in the first place.

 

"Coronavirus" suffices.

Embellishments, regardless of agenda, are superfluous.

 

You can have that opinion and it very well could be true, but at least he didn't correct his speech within minutes of giving it. Why? Because he understood, like most presidents, that such speeches are important and should be carefully crafted. So while you can critique Kennedy's foreign policy performance all you want and could very well have great insight into it, you can't deny that Trump eff'd up last night. Which I notice you didn't bother addressing because it's self-evident and it's not the first time his sloppy, laziness has shown it's self to the country's detriment.

 

If you think that labeling syphilis the “Neapolitan disease,” the “Spanish disease”, the “French disease.” the “Polish disease,” the “Turkish disease,” the “Christian disease,” the “British disease,” the “Portuguese disease,” or the “Chinese pox” was helpful, I confess that the usefulness of the ethnic attributions elude me.

If someone erroneously assumed that the coronavirus was first diagnosed in Lichtenstein, I don't think it would in any way impair his taking appropriate precautions.