Like I said in the other thread...even though I lean left on 75% of the issues out there, things like this are where the "far-left"/"woke-left" lose me.
...in essence, what they're suggesting is "we shouldn't be able to accurately label the source of the problem, if that accurate labeling may embolden some nut job to attack someone", am I getting that right?
I touched on this in the other thread, but these are the kinds of things people from the far-left are saying...
Whoopi Goldberg saying "So, we need to stop calling it or labeling it like it's they did it to us. Mother Nature really did this to us."
Hillary Clinton saying "The president is turning to racist rhetoric to distract from his failures to take the coronavirus seriously early on, make tests widely available, and adequately prepare the country for a period of crisis."
Left leaning publications claiming that "if you believe the Chinese are to blame for this virus, then you're gullible"
In fact, if you look at an article from the Daily Beast:
The World Health Organization named the disease COVID-19 to deter people from associating the virus with a location or group of people,
So, you have 4 concerning sentiments coming from that camp:
1) It's was just a random act of nature, nothing humans did caused it
2) The reason this is a problem is because of Trump
3) If you believe this virus has anything to do with China or Chinese culture, you're gullible
4) We need to deter people from associating the virus with a location or group of people
Basically, "if the truth may cause a nutjob to attack someone else, the answer is to simply lie about the problem or ignore the details"...that doesn't seem like a good solution either...especially if we want the international community to hold the Chinese responsible and demand regulatory measures after this whole thing is done.
How about this...we do both, we accurately identify the Chinese culture as the cause of this virus, while simultaneously condemning the nutjob bigots who are attacking Asian Americans? Sound like a plan?
Maybe I'm just cynical, but I feel like if China were a country full of white, conservative, Christians, and were engaging in the food practices that caused a pandemic, the far-left would have no problem accurately identifying the source of the problem or calling is a "Chinese Virus".