Use your PhD to find a non-offensive term that encapsulates the nation of origin of the virus as it arrived in Italy
Why does the nation of origin matter? That's what's really troubling here. We don't need to specify anything about where it supposedly came from. The desire to do so already betrays anti-Asian sentiment.
Call it COVID-19. That's its name.
Daily reminder that the hundred year period between the civil war and 64 CRA had a lynching rate of blacks of approximately 5 per year. Additional reminder that most of those lynchings were facilitated by a Supreme Court decision to deny a right to bear arms for individual self-defense, a ruling still favored by left-liberals to this day.
You have no argument here, so you distract from the issue.
Your numbers mean more than the actual math (which I don't believe is accurate to begin with). This fact doesn't speak for itself, and says nothing about the atmosphere of terror cultivated by the very threat of lynchings. Also, lynchings hardly account for all the crimes committed against African Americans during that time--so why would you act as though they do?
The second amendment means nothing here. Were African Americans allowed to own firearms to defend themselves, it wouldn't have changed the cultural atmosphere. In fact, it would have made it worse--can you imagine what would have happened if a black man murdered a white man?
Honestly, I can't express enough how little gravity there is to your response.
No one has killed more African Americans than Africans and African Americans, by a long shot. The only homegrown terror against African Americans in numbers that matter is gang violence.
This is a) irrelevant and b) false. Since the seventeenth century, white people on American soil have killed more Africans/African Americans than 20th-century black men have. I realize my thoughts on race in America seem to make people think that I'm the racist one (somehow), but what strikes me is that there's no effort here to understand what it's like to be a black American today.
I'm sure it sucks for Asians right now, but if I have to choose between avoiding Asian clusters and being considered a bigot, and getting infected, infecting everybody I know and potentially killing people/myself, I'm going with the former.
It's perfectly rational considering the increased chances of 3 things; an Asian being Chinese vs a non-Asian, a Chinese being infected vs non-Chinese, a Chinese being recently returned from/around others recently returned from China vs non-Chinese.
It's actually not rational. You're as likely to catch COVID-19 from a non-Asian person in America (maybe more likely). Specifying the country of supposed origin doesn't actually make one any safer, and stigmatizes those who present as Asian because it leads people to believe that those of Asian descent are somehow dirtier or more susceptible to infection. The only purpose it really serves is to cultivate animosity toward Asian Americans.
