Every Picture tells a Story - Racism

By Chuck Dinerstein, MD, MBA — Apr 20, 2020
ACSH, among others, has been criticized as “racist” for using the “Wuhan virus” early in the pandemic, before COVID-19 became the universal descriptor. We were using a description based on location, like Lyme Disease, from Lyme, Connecticut, not a racial description.

Ozy, a reputable on-line creator and aggregator shares this in a post, Butterfly Effect: who’s more racist?

“Posted on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Facebook earlier this month, the cartoon was part of a series titled “An illustrated handbook on how to sort foreign trash.” It exposes a disturbing pattern with consequences that may linger even once the pandemic passes: competitive racism from the world’s two biggest powers.”

 

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