RACISM: TRUMP’S THE CHINESE VIRUS SYNDROME:

March 20, 2020March 20, 2020 Editor 0 Comment RACISM: TRUMP'S THE CHINESE VIRUS SYNDROME:

Lana Condor attacks Donald Trump over ‘Chinese virus’ comments

Asian-American actress Lana Condor has blasted U.S. leader Donald Trump after he refused to back down from calling the COVID-19 pandemic the “Chinese virus” during a White House press conference on Wednesday (18Mar20).

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A caricature of a Chinese worker wearing a queue an 1899 editorial cartoon titled “The Yellow Terror In All His Glory”

Anti-Chinese sentiment has existed since the mid 19th century shortly after Chinese emigrants arrived on the shores of the United States.^[1] It surfaced in the 1860s, when the Chinese helped build the First Transcontinental Railroad. It was made manifest in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, shutting down not only further immigration but also naturalization. Its origins can be traced to the American merchants, missionaries, and diplomats who sent home from China “relentlessly negative” reports of the people they encountered there.^[2] These attitudes were transmitted to Americans who never left North America, triggering talk of the Yellow Peril, and continued through the Cold War during McCarthyism. Some modern anti-Chinese sentiment may be the result of China’s rise as a major world power seen to be at the expense of countries outside of China. Anti-Chinese sentiment or sinophobia is a broad opposition or hostility to the policies, culture, the politics of the People’s Republic of China and, at times, towards specific groups of Chinese people.

A defiant Columbia in an 1871 Thomas Nast cartoon, shown protecting a defenseless Chinese man from an angry Irish lynch mob that has just burned down an orphanage. The billboard behind is full of inflammatory anti-Chinese broadsheets

The President was challenged on his choice of words by media representatives, who pointed out many Asians have been attacked over the health crisis, but Trump insisted his phrase was correct as the virus began in China.

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The 22-year-old To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before star was livid and urged the American commander-in-chief to choose his words more carefully.

“You have no idea the ramifications your racist words & actions have on the Asian American community,” she wrote on Instagram. “You simply cannot even fathom the danger you are putting our community in. How dare you. You should be ashamed of yourself.

“You call yourself a leader? You know what leaders do? They LEAD by setting good examples and ACTION. Something we’ve yet to see you do. You need to take notes on Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, who is ACTUALLY leading – by donating tests and millions of masks to America, bc (because) you haven’t. Please. Be better. So we aren’t afraid to leave our house in fear someone will verbally or physically abuse us because of your xenophobia.”

Lana captioned the note she posted: “Be better. To wake up to your chaos is truly a nightmare. Please. Be better. To my followers – be safe. I love you.”

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The young actress isn’t the only celebrity slamming Trump’s references to the “Chinese virus” at media events and in tweets – Mia Farrow and Don Cheadle have also attacked him over his choice of words. © Cover Media

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