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What if this disease had originated in Africa?

 
black 2020-04-09 06:17:05 

The World avoided temptation to label this disease, "the Chinese virus," but what if it had originated in Africa?

What would the reactions be?

 
Norm 2020-04-09 07:01:59 

Man, stop it.

 
Drapsey 2020-04-09 10:13:44 

In reply to black

They would've blamed WHO and it's African President, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

 
Priapus 2020-04-09 10:31:09 

In reply to Drapsey
In a way aren't they already doing that? The blame has already started.

 
JahJah 2020-04-09 12:29:28 

In reply to black

Chrissy would find out is not just 'some white people' who doh like we...if he doh know just how much they don't already

 
black 2020-04-09 13:43:20 

In reply to Norm

What's that saying about walking a mile in a man's shoe?

 
Norm 2020-04-09 13:45:48 

In reply to black

What's that saying about walking a mile in a man's shoe?

Do we need to add to our present problems, unnecessarily at that?

 
BeatDball 2020-04-09 13:54:25 

Tea & water! Western press would have goutayed morning noon & nite - the African virus; the African virus! Is true! Just look back at Ebola & others...but, that's all from me.
wink

 
black 2020-04-09 13:56:15 

In reply to Norm

Do we need to add to our present problems, unnecessarily at that?


No, but we need understand it.

If you think Chinese Americans are having a rough time now, just imagine what life would be like for the dark skinned people who migrated from Africa.

 
Norm 2020-04-09 14:14:27 

In reply to BeatDball

Just look back at Ebola

Did the Western press refer to Ebola as the African disease?

 
Norm 2020-04-09 14:16:26 

In reply to black

we need understand it.

Understand what? Someone whining about something imaginary, to somehow capitalize on it?

How many Chinese Americans do you see whining about whatever "rough time" you would have us believe they are experiencing?

 
black 2020-04-09 14:20:12 

In reply to Norm

How many Chinese Americans do you see whining about whatever "rough time" you would have us believe they are experiencing?


I wouldn't describe it as "whining" but I have heard Chinese Americans speak of the discrimination they face.

 
BeatDball 2020-04-09 14:22:57 

In reply to Norm But, they were continually referring to Africa & not the specific country (out of 54)! Normy, I'm going back to the earlier outbreak in the 90s!

razz cool

 
Norm 2020-04-09 14:36:55 

In reply to BeatDball

they were continually referring to Africa

Well, wasn't it in Africa?

 
Norm 2020-04-09 14:41:18 

In reply to black

I have heard Chinese Americans speak of the discrimination they face.

Sure, and Japanese, and Native Americans, and "Middle Eastern people", and even women of just about any ethnicity. They don't pop up and weep and wail about it at every turn tho.

 
black 2020-04-09 14:50:03 

In reply to Norm

Norm, you don't know what you are talking about, this is real for people who have been discriminated against.

 
Norm 2020-04-09 14:58:27 

In reply to black

ALL people in this world are discriminated against - even in supposed homogeneous societies. No one on this planet is ever spared that scourge. There is discrimination right here on cc.com, to which many turn a blind eye conveniently, wallowing in their own self-pity.

There too much of interest in life to waste it on self-pity, slick con schemes and the past.

 
nick2020 2020-04-09 15:03:29 

In reply to JahJah

Do we get past this race thing by holding onto it?

I love Chrissy but she reminds me of how more racist/damaged each prior generation is as you get closer to slavery.

 
black 2020-04-09 15:05:40 

In reply to Norm

Here norm

More


As 34-year-old Lang Nguyen stood in line to vote in Irving last week, he took a sip of water and began to choke. 

“The woman [in front of me] happened to turn around and say if you’re going to be sick you might want to stay home,” he said. 

Nguyen said he was shocked, but assured her he wasn’t sick and explained the situation. 

“She said some racial slur to me like, ‘All you Asian people are spreading that coronavirus’ and so forth,” he said



When Nguyen finished voting, he said a police officer approached him in the parking lot and immediately asked for his ID. 

“Apparently, he was telling me as he was looking at my ID, the woman felt like I was going to assault her,” he said. “That shocked me even more.” 

After he and another person explained the situation, Nguyen said he heard the officer admonish the woman who made racist remarks to him, telling her she should thank Nguyen, who was deployed three times to Iraq and Afghanistan, for being a veteran
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black 2020-04-09 15:14:46 

Coughing while Asian

Across the aisle from Chou was a man she later learned is Korean American and a woman sitting next to him, also of Asian descent. The woman quickly replied to her friend: “There’s a lot of them. Pray for me.”

 
Norm 2020-04-09 15:15:11 

In reply to black

Man, tell us what is in your link, please (I looked at it, but only because it was you. Okay, you posted a bit while I was typing).

Do you really think discrimination against the Chinese in the US started a few weeks ago? Did you ever read about the lives of those Chinese that helped to build the US railroads, why they ended up having to live separately from the rest of the population, in what became "chinatown" in many parts of the US?

Did you ever read about the 50 million Chinese that were exterminated by the Japanese, right there at home in China, during the Second World War? Millions were exterminated in Japanese experiments, sometimes performed on entire cities.

Yes, no one has a monopoly on suffering through discrimination. It might help to open one's eyes to the general problem, so that one doesn't lose perspective.

And note that I didn't have to post any stupid link - because I have done my fair share of reading and investigating, with an open mind.

Koreans, in turn, have suffered quite a bit at the hands of the Chinese, as have the Vietnamese, etc, etc, etc. To this day, Chinese and Vietnamese, for example, prey mercilessly on their own people, right here in the US, with some even enslaving there own kind - today.

 
black 2020-04-09 15:20:21 

In reply to Norm

Do you really think discrimination against the Chinese in the US started a few weeks ago? Did you ever read about the lives of those Chinese that helped to build the US railroads, why they ended up having to live separately from the rest of the population, in what became "chinatown" in many parts of the US?


Is that the best you can do?

These people are living in the moment.

 
Norm 2020-04-09 15:22:04 

In reply to black

Is that the best you do?

Now you are starting to get stupid so enjoy it. See ya.

 
black 2020-04-09 15:22:38 

In reply to Norm

Bye

 
BeatDball 2020-04-09 15:33:24 

In reply to black

big grin

 
birdseye 2020-04-09 15:34:18 

In reply to black

Ebola originated in Africa

 
black 2020-04-09 15:37:10 

In reply to birdseye

While Ebola is far more deadly for the people contracting the disease, it is not highly contagious like the Coronavirus.

Also, people contracting Ebola might be more incapacitated to move from place to place.

 
BeatDball 2020-04-09 15:37:36 

In reply to birdseye Coronavirus originated in Asia!

wink

 
black 2020-04-09 15:45:06 

In reply to BeatDball

Coronavirus originated in Asia


He is not suggesting that it didn't

 
black 2020-04-09 18:30:02 

In reply to Norm

Chinese Americans speak out

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