| > I agree with you that this needs to not become any kind of a racial thing against Chinese people. It already is. My (conservative, right-voting) non-Chinese Asian parents are slightly nervous about being in public in our town, and my dad's car's mirror was smashed a couple nights ago. > But I'm going to stick with the facts, especially when someone is trying to paint a counter-factual lie of a narrative. COVID-19 is its scientific name: Coronavirus Disease 2019. If you say covid-19, you can still disagree that it can be a dogwhistle, you can just say it that way because you want to stick with the scientific facts. > And I think there is some value in factually pointing that out, and not letting the government of China create some it-was-some-US-soldiers fairy tale. I agree that there's value in this. Letting Chinese propaganda and digital interests (continue to) run rampant is, from my layman perspective, a mistake. See TikTok and Discord for examples. I also think it can be done in a way that doesn't catch families like mine in the crossfire: e.g. "that article is wrong, covid-19 actually started in China." |