Virus fuels racist backlash with calls to ‘nuke’ China and shoppers banned

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Coronavirus fuels racist backlash with calls to ‘nuke’ China and shops banning Chinese customers over the killer bug

Twitter and Facebook have been inundated with hate speech and racist memes, in some cases inciting violence against Chinese people.Another urged Donald Trump: "What do ya say we just drop an atomic bomb and stop the coronavirus for good?"

In France there was outrage after the Courrier Picard newspaper used the headlines "Yellow alert" and "Yellow peril".France's Courrier Picard newspaper sparked fury with the headlines 'Yellow alert' and 'Yellow peril'In Ontario, Canada, parents started a petition demanding children be forced to stay home from school for 17 days of "self-quarantine" if their families have recently visited China.

He said: “We face severe discrimination at the best of times, and it’s pretty obvious that if my son caught something at the hospital, people would start grousing about ‘those Korean-Chinese’.Meanwhile rich families in the Gangnam district have openly discussed sacking their nannies - even if they have not recently been to China.

Earlier this week, a fake media release claiming to be from the Queensland Department of Health advised people to stay away from “all populated areas with Chinese nationals of ratio of one to three non-Chinese Australians”.

 

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They were racists to begin with.

I doubt its racist ..its fear

Well maybe half of it.....

In a way their ignorance is just on the same level of those who decide to eat illegal game/animal.

This is nothing more than scare mongering. What experts gave a warning? Picking stories from social media, will find the crazies on most stories. Giving them attention is just dumb.

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