As the coronavirus crisis continues, millions of Americans are now jobless. In various cities, people who have never needed or wanted public assistance are lining up at food banks.
What is Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) concerned about? The racism of the term “Chinese virus.”
Harris is actually pushing a resolution in the Senate to this effect.
Victor Morton reports at the Washington Times:
Kamala Harris introduces resolution condemning ‘Chinese Virus’ as racistSen. Kamala Harris wants this on the record — the term “Chinese Virus” is hate speech fueling attacks against Asians.The California Democrat and failed 2020 presidential candidate has introduced a resolution condemning “all forms of Anti-Asian sentiment as related to COVID-19.”According to the Washington Free Beacon, such anti-Asian sentiment includes referring to the virus that originated in Wuhan, China, as the “Chinese Virus” or the “Wuhan Virus.”People also should not refer to the resulting illness as “Kung Flu,” Senate Resolution 580 states.The resolution — with co-sponsors including Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii — says public officials should denounce such rhetoric in any form.“It also calls on law enforcement officials to investigate, document, and prosecute the perpetrators of hate crimes against Asian Americans,” the Free Beacon wrote.
From the resolution:
Whereas, on February 27, 2020, the Secretary of Health and Human Services stated, “ethnicity is not what causes the novel coronavirus” and that it is inappropriate and inaccurate to call COVID–19 the “Chinese virus”;Whereas, on February 28, 2020, Dr. Mitch Wolfe, the Chief Medical Officer of the CDC, said, “stigma is the enemy of public health”;Whereas, on March 10, 2020, Dr. Robert Redfield, the Director of the CDC, testified that use of the term “Chinese coronavirus” is wrong and inappropriate;
Americans who are worried about how they’re going to feed their children can take comfort in the fact that this deeply important issue is being addressed.
We’ve seen similar speech policing from the San Antonio City Council, Michigan State University, and the University of Texas.
Twitchy has collected some Twitter reactions to this development:
This is a complete waste of time. People are struggling with real life and death issues. Virtue-signaling from progressive lawmakers should be deemed non-essential.
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