San Antonio Condemns "Chinese Virus"
as "Hateful Speech,"Encourages Reporting
"to the Proper Authorities for Investigation"
Reason,
by
EUGENE VOLOKH
Original Article
Posted By: mrdj,
5/9/2020 2:32:21 PM
A just-enacted San Antonio City Council resolution provides, in relevant part (emphasis added):
WHEREAS, COVID-19 is a public health issue, not a racial, religious or ethnic one, and the deliberate use of terms such as "Chinese virus" or "Kung Fu virus" to describe COVID-19 only encourages hate crimes and incidents against Asians and further spreads misinformation at a time when communities should be working together to get through this crisis; and
WHEREAS, the Jewish community has been targeted with blame, hate, antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories about their creating, spreading and profiting from COVID-19; and
WHEREAS, to target and stigmatize specific communities for the COVID-19 outbreak and world- wide spread creates
Reply 1 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/9/2020 2:37:02 PM (No. 406213)
It's the China fru. Whereas the city of SA is racist ignorant and has no sense of humor it is so ordered that they shall be ignored and publicly joked about until a vaccine is available.
36 people like this.
CCP Virus... Chinese Communist Party Virus.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JL80863 5/9/2020 2:39:27 PM (No. 406216)
"Isn't that special"
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/coronavirusfilm?__sta=vhg.uhsxjovznbap%7CUHV&__stm_medium=email&__stm_source=smartech&fbclid=IwAR1dcA8cuZoeNgNrieiq10eNUyI40JoqadV0yTrT7Xt-9iO4XErMMlBH5go
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Tusker 5/9/2020 2:43:05 PM (No. 406221)
The correct noun is “ChiCom germ ware 2020.”
Remember the Alamo!
28 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/9/2020 2:49:33 PM (No. 406224)
You would think that the San Antonio City Council would be spending their time taking care of the city of San Antonio instead of worrying about how the COVID-19 virus will impact China’s future standing in the world. Looks like the city council there is just furthering Communist Chinese propaganda.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Texpub 5/9/2020 2:51:30 PM (No. 406226)
Since when can the name of a country be considered a pejorative?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bgarrett 5/9/2020 2:52:50 PM (No. 406229)
email the city council and mention, the Spanish Flu of 1918, the Asian Flu of 1957 and the Hong Kong Flu of 1969, In the book '1984' they continually rewrote history,
36 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 5/9/2020 2:55:55 PM (No. 406232)
Why, I believe that may be unconstitutional. Not that any Democrats care.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
marbles 5/9/2020 2:57:01 PM (No. 406233)
This cr*p from Texas, home of The Alamo ?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
NYbob 5/9/2020 2:57:19 PM (No. 406234)
Anyone who submits to these tyrants deserves the treatment they get. It is becoming very clear that there is only one way to deal with this attack on fundamental freedoms. Well, maybe a couple of ways, but if we don't stop this history has a pretty clear record of where they go next.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 5/9/2020 2:59:29 PM (No. 406236)
Here's a big city in Texas. New York has New York City. Illinois has Chicago. California has LA and San Francisco. Washington has Seattle. Oregon has Portland. See a pattern here? Along with Dallas, El Paso, Austin, Houston ... who says Texas can't turn blue?
13 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
TJ54 5/9/2020 3:00:14 PM (No. 406237)
Time to string up the city council "pour encourager les autres"
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Are they going to change the name of the town next door to San Antonio from China Grove to . . . (need some help here Doobies)
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Namma 5/9/2020 3:05:56 PM (No. 406239)
Wow thought Texas was the Lone Star State protecting freedom.
Ok. So I’m not allowed to say Chinese virus. It’s a country. And that’s racist.
Wuhan virus. That’s just a city. Can’t be racist. So. I will go with the Wuhan virus
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 5/9/2020 3:08:32 PM (No. 406242)
Excellent post, #8.
These are the same people who like to claim science. And yet, the truth eludes them, over and over again.
I suppose it doesn't disturb them that the Chinese Communist regime persecutes minorities including the Uighurs and Christians and anyone who should dare to QUESTION the authorities or SPEAK OUT against them or speak WITHOUT PERMISSION.
Way too many Americans are stupefying dense, naïve, childish. They hurl invectives against their fellow citizens because they voted for Trump, and strive to protect those who share NO Western liberal values (liberty, justice, religious freedom, freedom of thought and expression, etc) but who work to destroy them.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 5/9/2020 3:09:27 PM (No. 406244)
What is it southern girls say?
“Well, bless your heart!”....
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Jerseyden 5/9/2020 3:12:21 PM (No. 406246)
If this keeps up I won’t be able to have Irish stew or Italian meatballs or Boston baked beans or Spanish rice or Philly cheestakes or NewYork or Chicago pizza or Cuban cigars , etc without offending someone.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
starboard 5/9/2020 3:16:21 PM (No. 406247)
Pure Leftist Tripe
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 5/9/2020 3:18:56 PM (No. 406250)
Everyone who runs across a council member should walk up to them and ask "Excuse me, I'm new here. Know where I can get some good Chinese food?"
11 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/9/2020 3:22:28 PM (No. 406253)
What a crock.
Is this all these people have to worry about?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Howard Adams 5/9/2020 3:22:30 PM (No. 406254)
Good post #8... And Ebola (River, Congo) Virus, and Zika (Forest Uganda) Virus, and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Lyme (Connecticut) Disease...
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/9/2020 3:25:00 PM (No. 406257)
They would have a lot of fun with Ebola Zaire, Swine Flu or the Black Plague. Stupid PC liberals. How about Smallpox as slandering midgets?
12 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/9/2020 3:28:41 PM (No. 406260)
Doesn't the San Antonio city council have something better to do? Like reopening the city?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 5/9/2020 3:36:13 PM (No. 406265)
It's TRUTHFUL, not hateful. Another example of Leftists trying to control the narrative by controlling what we can say. It seems to me there is an amendment about this.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
snakeoil 5/9/2020 3:46:19 PM (No. 406271)
WHEREAS the term "Chicken Pox" is a slur on the avian community in general and the chicken community in particular, this term will no longer be permitted. In the future it will be known as the Polka Dot Pox. Next Santa Anna will be declared the Hero of the Alamo.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 5/9/2020 3:47:35 PM (No. 406272)
Kung Flu! Kung Flu!! Kung Flu!!! KUNG FLU!! Kung Flu!!! MY 1st Amendment rights TRUMP your poor injured feelings!!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Shmowry1 5/9/2020 3:48:42 PM (No. 406275)
Nice priorities. Will not stand up to 1st amendment challenge. What a waste of time and resources.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
tsquare 5/9/2020 3:56:26 PM (No. 406279)
Come for me, snowflakes...after testing negatve for San Antonio Brain Wasting
Here are 17 other diseases named after populations or places:
West Nile Virus
Named after the West Nile District of Uganda discovered in 1937.
Guinea Worm
Named by European explorers for the Guinea coast of West Africa in the 1600s.
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Named after the mountain range spreading across western North America first recognized first in 1896 in Idaho.
Lyme Disease
Named after a large outbreak of the disease occurred in Lyme and Old Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s.
Ross River Fever
Named after a mosquito found to cause the disease in the Ross River of Queensland, Australia by the 1960s. The first major outbreak occurred in 1928.
Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever
Named after its 1940s discovery in Omsk, Russia.
Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever
Named in 1976 for the Ebola River in Zaire located in central Africa.
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
Also known as “camel flu,” MERS was first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and all cases are linked to those who traveled to the Middle Eastern peninsula.
Valley Fever
Valley Fever earned its nickname from a 1930s outbreak San Joaquin Valley of California, though its first case came from Argentina.
Marburg Virus Disease
Named after Marburg, Germany in 1967.
Norovirus
Named after Norwalk, Ohio after an outbreak in 1968.
Zika Fever
First discovered in 1947 and named after the Zika Forest in Uganda.
Japanese Encephalitis
Named after its first case in Japan in 1871.
German Measles
Named after the German doctors who first described it in the 18th century. The disease is also sometimes referred to as “Rubella.”
Spanish Flu
While the true origins of the Spanish Flu remain unknown, the disease earned its name after Spain began to report deaths from the flu in its newspapers.
Lassa Fever
Named after the being found in Lassa, Nigeria in 1969.
Legionnaire’s Disease
Named in 1976 following an outbreak of people contracting the lung infection after attending an American Legion convention in Philadelphia.
As others here have noted, Hong Kong Flu, Asian Flu
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Highvoltage 5/9/2020 3:56:30 PM (No. 406280)
Lots of folks fought hard for our freedom of speech and the puny little city council of San Antonio will not take it away from us.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Speedypete 5/9/2020 3:57:05 PM (No. 406281)
Wuhanic Plague is fitting as it is the reaction to the virus.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/9/2020 4:01:14 PM (No. 406285)
If I say 'look at this crappy potato peeler from China', what is the punishment when I'm turned in? Someone with the resources needs to make this a First Amendment case.
4 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
hershey 5/9/2020 4:09:49 PM (No. 406292)
Looks like San Antonio has been infected with some of that Kalifornia virus...you know, the one that causes stupidity, ignorance, TDS and PCism...
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/9/2020 4:11:04 PM (No. 406293)
That’s a big help.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Calamity Kate 5/9/2020 4:23:04 PM (No. 406300)
Chinese Lung AIDS was a funny one I heard yesterday.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
lakerman1 5/9/2020 4:37:41 PM (No. 406310)
First, it is not Kung Fu Flu. Or Kung Fu Virus.
It is Kung Flu. And everybody knows that.
second, one of the great early country songs was San Antonio Rose.
The very existence of those city council members defiles the name of that song.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
kewmac 5/9/2020 5:05:07 PM (No. 406332)
The city council's work is nowhere near finished. Here is a list Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Diseases from the CDC website. (https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/diseases.html) They are almost all named for the place where they originated or were first discovered. Aren't these the same idiots that kicked Chick Filet out of their airport recently?
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 5/9/2020 5:14:17 PM (No. 406340)
I always liked the name Kung Flu.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
DVC 5/9/2020 5:20:10 PM (No. 406347)
Truth is not permitted. And ALL SPEECH is protected by the First Amendments, even in Dem hellholes.
4 people like this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/9/2020 5:35:23 PM (No. 406364)
Sadly, Texas has good for nothing leftist governments in its largest cities. Hopefully, someone will test this violation of free speech by saying it loud and clear in front of the Alamo. With that said, I do have a new name for it... the Coolie Flu.
3 people like this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
Omen55 5/9/2020 6:16:19 PM (No. 406387)
Go ahead & investigate you lily liver fools.
But you try & do something you'll be making someone rich when they sue you.
4 people like this.
Reply 42 - Posted by:
DVC 5/9/2020 6:59:53 PM (No. 406415)
So saying "Chinese virus" encourages blame of the Jews?
Wow, you really cannot make up stuff as looney tunes as what these leftist fools actually believe.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/9/2020 7:00:40 PM (No. 406416)
Here’s another one to add to the list - on my wedding day way back in 1980, hubby and I were both sick with BANGKOK FLU. I was the sickest I have been in my adult life.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/9/2020 7:06:16 PM (No. 406426)
''Tattletale twit; your tongue shall be split. And every dog in town shall have a little bit.''
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
IowaDad 5/9/2020 7:21:54 PM (No. 406428)
The'd better slick up some other names too .. "Last Stand of the Lost Skirmish (1836)"
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 5/9/2020 8:41:52 PM (No. 406483)
Where do these idiots think it came from? We have always called a virus by the name of the nation it came from. Hong Kong Flu, Philippine Flu, and so on. Why are democrats so heck bent of rushing to look like idiots to the nation? SMH
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
watashiyo 5/9/2020 9:14:57 PM (No. 406505)
#29, you forgot HANSEN'S DISEASE - LEPROSY
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
Krause 5/9/2020 9:18:45 PM (No. 406508)
How do you think pigs feel after having a deadly flu named after them. Put that in there, too.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
DaBigGuy 5/9/2020 9:40:55 PM (No. 406523)
Is "Lou Gehrig's Disease" hate speech too?
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
rytwng 5/9/2020 9:58:53 PM (No. 406536)
How about the Chink flu?
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
kono 5/10/2020 2:16:02 AM (No. 406649)
Ok, then call it the Mexican virus. That might make San Antonio officials less upset with calling it the Chinese virus. Besides, the Wuhan Flu IS a Chinese virus, and you can't deny it.
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