{"id":667,"date":"2020-03-20T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ianmahon.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2023-05-26T06:43:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T06:43:05","slug":"ben-shapiro-insists-its-not-racist-to-call-coronavirus-the-chinese-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ianmahon.com\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"Ben Shapiro Insists it\u2019s Not Racist to Call Coronavirus the \u2018Chinese Virus\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro said the mainstream media\u2019s insistence that it is racist to call COVID-19 coronavirus the \u201cChinese virus\u201d is \u201cthe dumbest possible stuff\u201d on his self-titled podcast Thursday<\/a>. Shapiro\u2019s comments follow President Donald Trump\u2019s verbal spar with a reporter Wednesday in which the president said calling the coronavirus the \u201cChinese virus\u201d was \u201cnot racist at all<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe [Trump] is right about all this; everything he says here is true,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cIt is not racist, it is not culturally insensitive to point out that eating pangolins and bats has externalities and is a bad idea.\u201d While the source of the virus is believed to be a live-animal market<\/a> in Wuhan, China, the theory that coronavirus originated specifically from \u201cbat soup\u201d in Wuhan, China, as captured in a viral video<\/a>, is not true<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cChina is responsible for all of this,\u201d Shapiro said, referring specifically to the Chinese government. \u201cThis hasn\u2019t stopped the media from, in their desperate hatred of Trump, trying to pretend that Trump is a racist for pointing out that China is responsible for all this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though Shapiro\u2019s criticisms were directed toward the government, such phrasing is discouraged<\/a> by the World Health Organization, whose director general reasoned that calling it such would stigmatize Chinese people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou want to call it the commie virus, I\u2019m fine with that too,\u201d Shapiro said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the global outbreak, hate crimes against Asian Americans have been on the rise<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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