Personally, I think it is quite ironic, China pulling out the "racism" card..... please, gimme a break. This kind of language is so tiring and unproductive.
Virus comes from China. Chinese people congregate in Chinatown. Chinatown is pretty dirty (lefties please scream all you like but it is true) - people spitting everywhere. Spit is a big transmitter of the virus.... just seems like common sense based on current info. Plus, don't forget that biggest bunch avoiding Chinatown are Chinese themselves.... as someone pointed out earlier, the only reason the media is playing this card is because they want to be at odds with the Government. If the Government had a reverse stand, the media would be calling for a China travel ban....
There is a famous lefty example that is always hotly debated as to whether or not it is "racist" or not. I am paraphrasing here but was something like this...
Imagine you are walking down a street alone, and coming towards you was a group of 4 black men - would you cross the street?
The results were interesting because almost everyone (a mix of races, ages and genders) said "yes - they would cross the street".
Then they did the same test but swapped "black" for "white", and then again swapped "men" for "women"... and it turns out that everybody pretty much crossed the street to avoid "men" - race was not relevant.
So, in this case we are talking about, I think people are avoiding the VIRUS, and would do so just as much if they thought it was in Ivanhoe, Toorak or Waspywhitetown....
And for the record I went to Chinatown the other night..
