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07 Jun 2021, 12:46 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
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Well I can understand possibly blaming the Chinese government for covid for being possibly irresponsible which lead covid out, but that doesn't mean that Asian Americans are to blame. If Americans want to point to the finger at someone, then why not the Chinese government itself, rather than Asian Americans who did not have a part in it...


Morons in our midst. 8)
BTW, Wasn't Trump blaming the ccp, rather than Asian Amerians? :scratch:


At times he named the Chinese government. Other times, he just said, "China." Then he'd call it the "China Virus," and "Kung Flu," allowing the stupider in America to blame other Americans who are Asian. Very much like how my family during WWI were given sh*t just because they were of German extraction, when Woodrow Wilson condemned "hyphenated Americans."


Well, to his credit, according to what you have said, he said "China", which is a country, like Australia and America. 8)

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Trump: Asian-Americans not responsible for virus, need protection

By Reuters Staff

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, who has been accused of racism in labeling the coronavirus pandemic the “Chinese virus,” said on Monday that Asian-Americans were not responsible for spreading the disease and needed to be protected.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal ... SKBN21A3V6

Game, set and match.
May the Truth prevail. 8)

BTW, I am not defending Trump.
I am defending the Truth. 8)

Personally speaking, I want Trump to retire from politics, or at least, stay in the background.
He is a divisive figure pulling America apart, imo. 8)


But the fact remains, Anti-Asian bigotry resulted from Trump's attacks on China. And just because he said he didn't like blaming Asian Americans doesn't mean he went out of his way to express that to the idiots of the country.


Note the date stamp. 8)
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Healthcare & Pharma
March 24, 202010:03 AMUpdated a year ago
Trump: Asian-Americans not responsible for virus, need protection

By Reuters Staff

3 Min Read

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, who has been accused of racism in labeling the coronavirus pandemic the “Chinese virus,” said on Monday that Asian-Americans were not responsible for spreading the disease and needed to be protected.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal ... SKBN21A3V6



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07 Jun 2021, 1:02 am

Pepe wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Pepe wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Pepe wrote:
ironpony wrote:
Well I can understand possibly blaming the Chinese government for covid for being possibly irresponsible which lead covid out, but that doesn't mean that Asian Americans are to blame. If Americans want to point to the finger at someone, then why not the Chinese government itself, rather than Asian Americans who did not have a part in it...


Morons in our midst. 8)
BTW, Wasn't Trump blaming the ccp, rather than Asian Amerians? :scratch:


At times he named the Chinese government. Other times, he just said, "China." Then he'd call it the "China Virus," and "Kung Flu," allowing the stupider in America to blame other Americans who are Asian. Very much like how my family during WWI were given sh*t just because they were of German extraction, when Woodrow Wilson condemned "hyphenated Americans."


Well, to his credit, according to what you have said, he said "China", which is a country, like Australia and America. 8)

Quote:
Trump: Asian-Americans not responsible for virus, need protection

By Reuters Staff

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, who has been accused of racism in labeling the coronavirus pandemic the “Chinese virus,” said on Monday that Asian-Americans were not responsible for spreading the disease and needed to be protected.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal ... SKBN21A3V6

Game, set and match.
May the Truth prevail. 8)

BTW, I am not defending Trump.
I am defending the Truth. 8)

Personally speaking, I want Trump to retire from politics, or at least, stay in the background.
He is a divisive figure pulling America apart, imo. 8)


But the fact remains, Anti-Asian bigotry resulted from Trump's attacks on China. And just because he said he didn't like blaming Asian Americans doesn't mean he went out of his way to express that to the idiots of the country.


Note the date stamp. 8)
Quote:
Healthcare & Pharma
March 24, 202010:03 AMUpdated a year ago
Trump: Asian-Americans not responsible for virus, need protection

By Reuters Staff

3 Min Read

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, who has been accused of racism in labeling the coronavirus pandemic the “Chinese virus,” said on Monday that Asian-Americans were not responsible for spreading the disease and needed to be protected.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal ... SKBN21A3V6


I still don't recall him making an effort to get the point across that Asian Americans shouldn't be persecuted. Not like how he's promoted QAnon.


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07 Jun 2021, 4:23 am

I'm also struggling to ever remember him apologising to any of the myriad of group he gaslighted and he knew it.
Its not like he ever went out of his way to clarify to the Asian community that he didn't mean anything by guffawing in front a predominantly white crowd using the terms Kung Flu and "China" virus. Instead of explaining himself his strategy is to pour gasoline over the fire. He did that with Mexicans and blacks as well.



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07 Jun 2021, 9:09 am

Pepe wrote:
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Oh yes, but the theories about the virus being made intentionally, were coming out before the surge in Asian-American hate crimes, weren't they? I mean this was early on last year when covid first hit that these theories were coming out.


According to Sharri Markson, a very credible source, the Chinese ccp scientists presented papers on a vaccine for the coronavirus in the early months of 2020, before the transmissibility to humans was made public. 8)


Oh okay, so what does that mean then? Sorry, I am not following?


While the ccp allowed infected people to spread the disease, all over the world, and was ransacking countries of their PPE, they said the coronavirus was not transmittable between animals and humans, and yet they were working, or even had a vaccine intended for humans, in the early part of 2020.
The usual political BS. 8)


Oh okay, so if they had a vaccine already available then why did the rest of the world waste their time trying to create another one instead of just using this already available one?



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07 Jun 2021, 9:50 am

There have been hate crimes against Asians in America ever since the Founding Fathers prohibited Asians from owning land in the original 13 states.  In modern times, there is a "surge" in the amount of publicity these crimes receive, as well as an increase in the number of hate crimes committed against Asians.


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07 Jun 2021, 9:19 pm

Fnord wrote:
There have been hate crimes against Asians in America ever since the Founding Fathers prohibited Asians from owning land in the original 13 states.  In modern times, there is a "surge" in the amount of publicity these crimes receive, as well as an increase in the number of hate crimes committed against Asians.


It's hard to retrospectively identify culprits when the prevailing narrative in children's history books is that colonists were all good folk and there were only a few bad apples.

The reality was support for the Chinese exclusion act was universal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Chin ... ted_States

The sentiment was identical here in the southern colonies like Australia where fear of the yellow peril was foremost in our ancestors heads.