I'd say I'm mildly offended, but also not surprised at Trump's vernacular.Cortopassi wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 4:18 pm My wife is of Chinese descent.
I am interested to know if Trump calling it the Chinese Virus is offensive to you.
If it started in Italy, or Canada, do you think he'd be calling it the Italian Virus or the Canadian Virus?
*Yes, I know there's the Spanish Flu, but that was 100 years ago.*
Italy has now surpassed China in deaths. If restaurants and areas were still open, do you think Americans would stop patronizing Little Italy's and Italian restaurants like we did Chinatowns?
*Please don't deflect and post links to stories that he wasn't the first one to call it the Chinese virus. I will grant you that. But he is continuing it.*
The issue with the word "Chinese" is that it's ambiguous. Chinese may refer to someone's ethnicity, but it may also simply refer to someone's nationality.
For instance, if you are Caucasian but from China, you are Chinese.
If Trump is referring to nationality, I'm not super offended. If he means it in terms of ethnicity, super offended.