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Why are we blaming China for this outbreak in the US when we should be blaming rich people from NYC
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“Why not both” is not analysis. This virus has been politicized from the very beginning and blaming China serves a particular political function.
This deserves special attention. As the US closed its border to those who’d visited China and Iran, between March-May, 420,000 ppl were allowed to flee NYC, the epicenter of the crisis in the US, and spread the virus to the rest of the country.

420,000 people!!
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Best thing about this NYT article is the way it gives “global backlash” an agency of its own, as if this backlash happened organically rather than being spearheaded by the world’s most belligerent superpower, lmao
In March Daily Beast obtained a WH cable instructing State Dept officials when speaking to media to focus on CN orchestrating a cover up. Soon after, we got pieces like these from Marc Thiessen of AEI/Shadi Hamid of Brookings Inst. This is how the levers of power work
Republicans also recently released a 57 pp memo instructing GOP candidates to aggressively attack CN, stressing 3 talking pts:

1. CN covered it up
2. Dems are “soft on CN”
3. Repubs will push for sanctions (This is why you see states announcing they plan to sue for reparations)
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Amanda 余美娜
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Attributing rise in hate crimes on Trump calling it the "China virus" is insufficient in 2 ways:

1. It's ahistorical--working class Chinese in US have long been associated w disease & pestilence, dating back to late 19th cent

2. It ignores the geopolitical moment we're in 1/
Mass immigration of Chinese workers to US in late 19th cent to build railroads resulted in extremely dense population of SF’s Chinatown & it was considered to be an incubator of infectious illnesses. Chinese ppl were seen to be more likely to carry smallpox and cholera 2/
Chinese immigrants were seen to be more likely to carry certain infectious illnesses, particularly smallpox and cholera. In fact, a smallpox epidemic was the one of the primary reasons used as justification for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. 3/
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Amanda 余美娜
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If you’re Chinese, ppl in the US only recognize your humanity if you speak out against your gov’t, if your criticisms are useful to US imperialist ambitions.

Otherwise, you’re just a mindless brainwashed prop of the CCP.

These are the only two ways Americans see Chinese ppl.
Notice how these ppl's grief is cynically deployed to bolster the US propaganda campaign to undermine the CCP, of a lying despotic gov't trying to control the narrative at every turn.

That's the only way you're ever seen as fully human
Who gets translated, who is granted the right to speak for China is never politically neutral. Fang Fang emerged as one of the leading voices out of Wuhan in the midst of this crisis. Why do you think that is?
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