On 3/9/20 11:07 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/9/20 9:06 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
So I'm reliably informed by the PC intelligentsia at MSNBC that calling >>>> the corona virus "Wuhan virus" is racist:
https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1236829798133108736?s=21
Yet it's not racist to call Ebola, well, Ebola even though it's named
after the place/river in Africa where it first appeared, just like this >>>> corona virus strained first appeared in Wuhan.
Likewise, Marburg isn't a racist virus even though it's named after the >>>> town in Germany where the first documented cases emerged.
Or Lassa fever, named after the town in Nigeria where it was first >>>>discovered.
Or the Spanish flu.
Is 'chicken pox' speciesist against barnyard fowl?
I'm looking for our experts who have doctorates in Useless Rules for
Political Correctness here in the newsgroup (FPP, moviePig, etc.) to
weigh in on how this corona virus is somehow different than all the
others such that it can't be referred to by its regional origin without >>>> being 'racist'.
How many times do you have to be told what an open cesspit Twitter is?
So from this evasion, I can tell the group's mavens of political
correctness are stumped over the rules of racism and viruses.
Just because a clown on Turder says something
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