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I don't know why some of you are going on about being right and winning. Rob and Impediment were in on this gag because I PMed them. Silent and Rao PMed me and figured I changed the post. I highly doubt anybody thought Quan made the post, but simply played along just for the lulz.
People should take to the streets and scream "Chinese Virus" to break the new law and the social distancing bullshit.
2 for the price of one.
Also, everyone needs to start yelling every single racial slur and sexist word/phrase in existence. We need to teach our children that people say mean things sometimes and you cannot legislate thought policing.
My thoughts: every single person who supports this is a piece of utter shit
__________________ Chicken Boo, what's the matter with you? You don't act like the other chickens do. You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man you're a Chicken Boo.
He is. I had the pleasure of delivering food and supplies to his himself and his committee. They were all entirely snobbish pricks that seemed self-righteous.
Ruth Beier is the mayor of my hometown and she says it's hate speech as well. It's clear though she doesn't mean it. The bottom line is it is The Chinese Virus plain and simple and she believes it
__________________ 2 spellcasters are better than 1
__________________ Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth bound feathered dinosaur. But it is not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.-- Alan Feduccia-a world authority on birds, quoted in "Archaeopteryx:Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms," Science 1994, p.764-765
The city of San Antonio passed a resolution to denounce hate speech and affirm it's commitment to the integration of all people in its community and it's prosecution of hate crimes. In effect nothing changes at all. They specified that usage of the term "Chinese virus" has in part led to an increase in hate crimes against the Asian community (whether it being a cause of that is debatable of course, but there seems to have been an increase in racism against Asian people, and I'm sure we all agree that's a bad thing) and additionally it also points out that anti-semitism has been on the rise (presumably based on anti-semitic conspiracy theories)
So nothing will change, and you are not going to be charged with a crime if you use the term "Chinese virus" (although I would suggest to you to reflect why you feel the need to use it when there is a much more commonly used name). If it is used in connection with a crime (were someone to attack an asian person and yell at them "that's for the Chinese virus" or something, I suspect that would be used as evidence of whether the crime was racially motivated, but that is also unrelated to the resolution in question)
It is a virus that originated in China, you can call that Chinese virus if you want, but I do think regardless of that fact we should be mindful of whether the words we use have consequences. Ultimately I believe the insistence on calling it the Chinese virus, when the agreed upon terminology throughout most of the world and most of the United States is different, is a political consideration. It's an interesting discussion about how the framing and nomenclature has become one of the biggest battlegrounds in modern US politics for sure.
But all of that is besides the point, the story this thread is based on is misleading, this has little to do with thought policing and saying "Chinese virus" is certainly not illegal.
Thought policing is the correct term seeing as how specific entities wish to police the known nomenclature which happens to be factual and in accordance with reality and geography.
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