Trump's 'Chinese Virus' rhetoric part of a long U.S. tradition of scapegoating

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THINK Remember this virus doesn’t divide. This virus affects ALL in more ways than one. This COVID-19 has attacked bodies, caused mass unemployment, caused mass shut down, and more for ALL; no discrimination. Be silent and listen. Maybe we can do better.

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THINK It would be so nice if I could just get the news without the constant political sway. It's tiring at a time like this.

THINK NOT WATCHING A DISGUSTING CREEP.

THINK That is not the truth. Calling COVID19 Chinese Virus is not an offense to immigrants. You media should review your rhetoric on President Trump’s denomination of Chinese Virus. It is a Chinese Virus, it originated there.

THINK By now we all know Trump’s policies are: to lie, to cheat, to blame, to divert attention, to attack, to threaten, to win at all cost to benefit himself...

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THINK Wokeness is the politics of prosperity, and we are all out. Why don't the garbage of NBC go live in China and chew on a Horse-shoe bat.

THINK You seem to be pushing opinion as news. Double shame on you!

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THINK He just gives the credit where it belongs. It is virus from China and because of China. We all should demand compensation from China BoycottChina

THINK I’m battling it now. It’s like being poisoned. China should pay. No more travel allowed from China. Bioterrorism. Wake up!!

THINK True. USA & Europe knew about Covid19 since end of November but they chose to ignore it. Mr Trump said the virus was a hoax & that it would go away on it's own. He also said it was like having a flu. He blamed the Democrats & now that he's been caught, let's make it racist.

THINK A tradition practiced by our politicians and not the majority of American people. Wars with North Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan all because of politics and politicians. Not most Americans.

THINK This is essentially the same left wing argument as “securing our borders is racist”, but somehow every other sovereign country in the world does it

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THINK He is disgusting . How awful to say this. But doesn’t surprise me, he always was a hateful cruel man.

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THINK Hey NBC...why were you quiet when Bill DE Blasio has been trying for years to discriminate/restrict Asian Americans from entering NYC top high schools? What about the overall discrimination at colleges against Jews, Whites and Asians? Why the silence?

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THINK Whereas the Chinese Communist government of China has a tradition of using foreigners, immigrants and the poor as an additional aggregate when making cement for their sparkling cities of the future.

THINK This is the problem you keep broadcasting Trumps lies, the people need truth, we don’t need lies. The reason we have so many dead is because of Trumps lies. Fact checking means nothing once the lies are out there to thousands of people, it’s too late🦠

THINK It’s not rhetoric, it’s a simple FACT. Oh, wait...I forgot. isn’t into facts and truth. You (and the other media stooges) are all about propaganda and political agenda, truth be damned.

THINK Since this is officially called the Wuhan virus, and it came from China, at what point does this become a tweet that is 'targeted harassment' that TwitterSafety will take action against?

THINK What’s wrong with you people!! Who do,you thin cares about this junk when so many are dying!!

THINK You have to be kidding me. NBC is in China’s pocket. Don’t forget that.

THINK Part of GOP rhetoric.

THINK Chinese Scientists Destroyed Proof of Another Virus Back in December In late December 2019, Chinese laboratories identified a mystery virus as a highly infections new pathogen. }

THINK Hi as a concerned parent can you tell me why you spiked stories about high $ DNC donors who happen to be sexual deviants ie pedophiles and rapists. Like ed buck and harvey weinstein...nevermind we know. ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.

THINK China murdered those who tried to warn the world - or did you forget that already? Wow - NBC hates America also - just wow

THINK But this one time, some folks have to own up to the spread. Just this one time, there's a real culprit. COVID19

THINK Fake News!

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THINK On January 25 the whole of China saw US sending huge planes to evacuate their diplomats and citizens from Wuhan, the personnel on the plane equipped with protective gears like in a biowarfare. The US clearly understood the seriousness of the situation then, or was it just a show?

THINK If only we had a sign Trump was racist.... like if he started off his campaign with a racist rant on Hispanics.

THINK So Hepatitis-B would be also the other guys fault?! It's just not. Our life is full of viruses. For some, we actually developed effective vaccines for immunization!! Make use of science.

THINK OMFG.... WuhanCoronovirus began in Wuhan China... stop bullshit

THINK Management blames the not special privileged workers at the campuses.

THINK And Rightfully So.

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THINK Umm this came from China, so blame away!

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THINK True. HIV/AIDS originated in the US and they blame it all on Africans.

THINK You mean because it originated in China Or are you referring tot he FACT that China has been lying about their death toll ? Is that what u mean

alicialewisKARE THINK But.... it came from China.

THINK Because China withheld info about the virus, over 150 countries have suffered. Ongoing disinformation from NBC.

THINK No one is blaming China for its propaganda offensive

THINK A propaganda piece by NBC

THINK China lied.... people died..

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THINK Seriously, NBC? This is why no one trusts the media.

THINK Trump is a Murderer and the world has the video. F*CK YOU TRUMP.

THINK How much is China paying NBC and Chinese News Network to run this propaganda ? China waited months to earn the world , enabled this virus to thrive.

THINK “Scapegoating “? YOU PEOPLE ARE SICK.

THINK Big Surprise, NBC trying to protect the Communist Regime. $$$

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THINK You people are no longer capable of unbiased reporting. You're disgusting and should all be stripped off your broadcasting rights.

THINK The CCP 🇨🇳: 1.Arrested doctors who alerted the public of the virus. 2.Blamed the USA of releasing the virus during the ‘19 Wuhan games. 3.Gave false data to WHO. 4.Removed American reporters from China. 5.Sold thousands of faulty test kits, masks, and medical equipment.

THINK NBC is big part of the media virus. Detrimental to America. Does not serve the public.

THINK Sad. You should change your name. No longer a “National” anything rather a Partisan Broadcasting Company. Sad

THINK Poor people just don't have the resources.

THINK I will stick to melting mountain glaciers releasing a frozen virus that has been frozen for ages, got in the water and poof, here we are and we are all responsible due to climate change. It was bound to happen, where was the big question and what will the next 1 be like?

THINK Every time you mention Resident Rump please give him the honor bestowed upon other accomplished individuals. Always refer to him as 'Impeached President Trump.' Like Oscar winners and Nobel prize winners, he earned his title. Please use it!

THINK COVID19 originated in Wuhan, China. It’s a new virus with no known cure. The virus caused a worldwide pandemic in one month, and cataclysmic economic meltdown. China & collaborators in US Media have been on a disinformation campaign to hide the origin of the virus. propaganda

THINK Ah interesting same person who owns cnn lol radical left..jeffy Adam zucker

THINK So he has no solution than blame? how many people remember what this clown said about Obama when US had cases of ebola virus?

THINK Fake news

THINK Every one of y'all not watching the briefings made an F and not only that..u also recreating history BLINDLY

THINK Says CCP NBC...

THINK COVID-19 literally stands for 'Chinese Originated Viral Infectious Disease,' the 19th strain to come from there.

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THINK They are using same tactics as they did with slaves over 400 years ago..causing people to react out of emotions feed bull through media and no one reading facts..they know it's to much to read and most don't I mean we all hated school right dont want to do the homework

THINK How about you just report the facts, minus your opinions? Your job is to report news, not to tell us what you want us to think. Objective journalism is dead. No credibility = no audience = RIP MockingbirdMedia!!! Trump2020 KAG TheStorm TheGreatAwakening WWG1WGA WalkAway

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THINK Well, is too lazy to report the truth here. When has the POTUS used the term 'Chinese Virus?' Why didn't he use it from the get go and use it now? Fake news clearly has too many hateful idiots.

THINK Now I am curious who owns NBC since they been posting out Democrat political agendas back to back and since majority of them I know is a lie because I watched the full briefs on Cspan..and thank God republic party keeps voting against that no transparency act Nancy threw in there

THINK Get de fuq outta here. Around the world it's call Chinese Coronavirus or Wuhan Coronavirus.

THINK no way u would know that unless your rack checking what the media is feeding u.even Pelosi she been In office how long? Her bills during this will tell all..if people tack check.if people tack check the were see what big polititions with power own.cnn is owned by a radical left

THINK The COVID-19 pandemic started in China. They went to great lengths to keep other countries from obtaining information about it, resulting in far greater loss of life & economic damage to them/us. China deserves blame. Shame on you for suggesting its wrong to state facts.

THINK The virus started up in China because of particular (peculiar) Chinese lifestyles and culture. NBC ought to stop blaming Trump for anything, start informing people, and quit trying to influence them.

THINK Don't know how to solve a problem? Simple, blame someone else for the problem and ignore the fact that that does NOT solve the problem. Trump tactics 101. TrumpFailedAmerica coronavirus COVID19Pandemic

THINK Oh and media is so innocent - yep FakeNews

THINK The ccommunist party in China has full control over media and everything else..they are full dependent on them..fake news..thats what sum Chinese were hollering about in the streets..they are catching on ..we are doing no different here..it actually all throughout history

THINK But...but....the actual virus literally started in the country of China soooooo...

THINK The virus originated in China. The Chinese lied about the it. Trump calls China out on it. The media and the left had a sudden attack of holier than thou moral breakdown. Now the left and the Dems are China fan boys. I guess the Dems and Media really do like Communism.

THINK FAKE NEWS! It is a fact that the Coronavirus came from China.

THINK 'Watch'? Why? He spun his Wheel of Who to Blame For My Mistakes' and it landed on the xenophobia section versus Obama, Democrats, Media, or Hillary. What's new here?

THINK Still sucking on that honger cock huh nbc?

THINK So where did it come from?

THINK In the words of the great philosopher springsteen “the hands that built the country, they’re always trying to keep down...”

THINK Your rhetoric is un-American, Bashing the President during a pandemic a national emergency.

THINK Not pulling your headline punches any more? I hope to see more of it.

THINK Absolutly right.hope he can launch strong measures to flat the curve.

THINK Race baiting is a long shmucky tradition of NBC. As Live bear bile is being recommended as a cure for Coronavirus the very reason coronavirus leaped from animal to human still exists in China So your're being irresponsible by NOT acknowledging the source of the problem.

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THINK If you are healthy and don't take drugs or drink alcohol, you are susceptible to police attack for your blood, perhaps Hitler's reason for taking Jews captive and then burning them in ovens to hide his crime.

THINK Singapore finally stepped up its Covid fight by reversing previous strategy n now asking all to wear free reusable masks it's issuing free to all. It also enhanced social distancing with work/schools shutdown for a month. AND it only has 5 deaths/1114 cases. Trump please buck up!

THINK This man is a shame to the Americans.

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THINK Confused about this one. I have friends in China and they suddenly started saying the virus might have come from America about a week before Trump started this

THINK Pretty accurate. I don’t hate the Chinese. But, it came from China and the Chinese government lied.

THINK This is like the 2nd time you’ve posted this. Y’all just hate trump. As an Asian American with a father who was born in Asia, this is Chinas fault

THINK Incompetence at its finest is the Trump brand.

THINK WATCH: President Trump's **RACIST** rhetoric is part of a long U.S. tradition of blaming foreigners, immigrants and the poor for disease.

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THINK Yes he always seeking scapegoats for his blunders Unwantedly and Nextly will be oil...

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THINK Just sick, ignorant racism.

THINK Aaaannnddd they deserve the label

THINK NBC covering up for China. The virus came from Wahun China. The Chinese government tried to cover it up. Why don’t you guys go and report on that? That’s right, because China told you not to.

THINK But hey now it’s officially the Trump virus in this country 🤒

THINK People are not learning to live w Covid-19. What person can learn to live with thousands dying bcuz of Trumps failure as president to have someone creditable to b in charge.Right now we are going thru the 4th adviser, yet Kushner says Trump didn't know until 13 days prior.

THINK It needs to be called Trump-COVID-19. Idiot is responsible for spreading the virus. His poor ass response has us all in danger.

THINK Think whoever wrote it the studies muppet in journalism. My question is, did the virus come out the thin air?

THINK NBC fools. It came from China! How about reporting something positive

THINK Why no one told the truth that it was already here in New York city in 2019

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THINK Where did it come from ? Who kept the facts hidden until it spread across the globe ? Who is still being dishonest about their numbers ? And you blame trump

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THINK So you say it’s from somewhere else?

THINK nonsense.

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THINK 51percent day he’s a great president. Are u kidding me.. he’s a racist S.O.B.

THINK Imagine, just for a moment, if today’s had existed in 1941.

THINK It was from China it ain't really blaming when it was actually from them

THINK Amazing how our MSM promotes the propaganda from a communist regime that truly seeks to destroy America. These MSM elite and journalists would infect their own mothers with Wuhan Virus for money from China. Sell out MSM is the real enemy of the people.

THINK So is it kind of like when the Europeans came over and infected the indigenous tribes of North and Central America with the diseases they brought with them, almost wiping us out.

THINK It's on the list: Blaming foreigners & minorities for all the ills

THINK Take a step back. The 1918 Spanish flu didn’t start in Spain, but surmised to have started in the US. I.e. where it started isn’t as important as how quickly the population was notified. In this case, we can say that the WHO, that should have notified us earlier, did not. Why?

THINK The Chinese government in the most literal sense caused the virus and then covered up the virus. So it is a Chinese virus

THINK It is unnecessary because everyone understands that it is the nonperforming administration let this pandemic spread.

THINK Of course this is 🤢🤢🤮

THINK The US media is doing everything in its power to undermine the president each & everyday you’ll don’t have any respect at all that he is The president of the USA you’ll still regard him as a rich civilian & that’s why the hate for him he works FREE for the country 👍🏻👏🏻👍🏻

THINK Hey it is the Chinese virus as it came from China.

THINK Is this where NBC tells you what you should think? 🤨

THINK First case in US was on 21st Jan. If Trump prepared some supplies and issued social distancing in Feb, it would not has had so many cases now. Blaming Chinese is to distract people from his failure. That is the point.

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THINK Fake News

THINK At least for now....Stop with the NEGATIVITY!!!!

THINK Because of Con-Man-in-Chief’s Laissez-Faire Attitude, OUR People Continued to Travel & Spread the ‘Virus’ both within the ‘United’ States & as far as, The Holy Land! WH has learned nothing & wants credit for wiping up the mess they could have & could still thwart! LOCK US DOWN!

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THINK Remember folks, all this death and economic destruction is due to President Xi and the Chinese military dictatorship. They hid the Wuhan outbreak for over a month while over 500,000 people traveled from china to the USA in December and January.

THINK The real ongoing news story is that healthcare staff still do not have adequate PPE and are at high risk of falling ill, and almost nobody can get tested still today months into this.

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THINK Trump is right first time , this is chinese virus and they are the guilty for this pandemic. Why they couldnt close their borders until infections is fully gone ? Why the fucking europe countries didnt apply restrictions for people who traveled this infected China ?

THINK I’m voting for Biden!

THINK What are you talking about? Started in Wuhan was covered up and is still being misrepresented by the Chinese government after they threw out the press. Why are you writing articles leaning to the defense of China who just started a Pandemic lied about it and now its POTUS feet?

THINK Classic Trump. Everything is always someone else’s fault.

THINK White people are foreigners too.

THINK Gfy

THINK I'd bet a stimulus check this article wasn't written by a native american.

THINK It’s of Chinese origin and the CCP mishandled the outbreak by arresting the doctors trying to sound the alarm. Their culpability will never be forgotten no matter how much pieces like this are written. PR will not remove the memories etched in people’s minds by fear.

THINK Even chinese dictatorship called it WuHan pneumonia at first, so what's the problem ? PRC slaves commenting, don't lose your time.

THINK I'm surprised he isn't wearing his flight jacket and MAGA cap with a Misson Accomplished on a banner behind him.

THINK WuhanCoronaVirus ChineseVirus TDS

THINK Well, it came from China. The China government screwed the world, so I say, screw them.

THINK Hahahahaha. Fake news frauds. The commies started this.

THINK I hate Trump but in this case, he’s blaming the right people! Being politically correct is not going to save us.

THINK Wet. Markets. Chinese gov could stop them easily, but they don’t. Maybe they will now. That is was the Senator was sorta referring to.

THINK PREACH .... ChineseSlave 🙄

THINK I take it your check from the CCP cleared?

THINK Looks like the ChiCom checks cleared the NBC bank...

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THINK But it’s true

THINK TrumpVirus TrumpPandemic Nothing else can describe it. No one gives a FUCK how he tries to wipe the grease off his back.

THINK NBC funded by Xi now?

THINK Trump and Pompeo pushing their racist rhetoric. Long after the virus was given it's official scientific name. Anyone using any other name after that date promotes racism.

THINK a chinease Bat Eater started it 🦇🇨🇳

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THINK washingtonpost reports that are run by communist kgb agents. Who would have thought? Are they turning against one another?

THINK NBC - please stop being a puppet supporting propaganda for the Chinese Communist Party. 🇨🇳 Trump was only calling it this name since the Chinese Communist Party was spreading propaganda stating that the US created the virus. CommunismSucks CommunismKills

THINK 🙄 the virus is china's fault

THINK No... I have to disagree.

THINK If you compare South Korea with US,you will understand what‘s the problem,while there is no country stopped the virus totally,some people blame China for didN't stop it,when Trump lied to you sinceJan 1 that it's just flu,you blame China didn't tell you what is it

THINK Listen.....

THINK It is a CHINA VIRUS, cant you see clearly!!

THINK Really, this is what your peddling now during a pandemic in the USA. You should just go work for China.

THINK So where did the virus come from dumb ass?

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THINK It began in China, facts aren't racist.

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THINK Hey NBC!

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THINK However, it's been revealing to see how these foreigners are the developers, engineers, doctors, brains, and inventors creating new ways on dealing with this.

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THINK But it came from china...

THINK Origins are important Origins are important Origins are important Wuhan Flu

THINK Trump is right. Chinese virus.

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THINK Gee I wonder why

THINK Why are you resurrecting that story now? Trump has been referring to it as: coronavirus, virus, invisible enemy, and COVID for some time now.

THINK Oh, so you have someone else whose fault it is? We’re all ears.

THINK He forgets that White people spread smallpox and polio

THINK अब देश के सारे न्यूज़ चैनल और अख़बार बिक चुके हैं, आप सब एकबार ध्यान से इस रेकॉर्डिंग को सुने, लिंक द्वारा, और बताएं कि लोग आप की खबर पर भरोसा कैसे करें और क्यों करें।

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