{"id":3281,"date":"2020-03-17T11:48:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T11:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/17\/is-wuhan-virus-racist\/"},"modified":"2020-03-17T11:48:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T11:48:37","slug":"is-wuhan-virus-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/17\/is-wuhan-virus-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Is &#8216;Wuhan Virus&#8217; Racist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I&#39;ll grant you that it is if you grant me that leftism is a deadly virus and that leftists, &#39;liberals,&#39; &#39;progressives,&#39; and members of the Democrat Party in the USA knowingly and willingly carry and transmit it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Do we have a deal?&#0160; But if &#39;Wuhan Virus&#39; is racist, then then so are the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">West Nile<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Lyme (named after a town in Connecticut)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Spanish flu<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">German measles<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Norovirus (named after Norwalk, Ohio)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Middle East Respiratory Syndrome<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">St. Louis encephalitis<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Lassa fever (named after a town in Nigeria)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Ebola (named after a river in Africa)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Legionnaires&#39; disease (named after the American Legion)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">If the bulleted entries are not racist expressions, then neither is &#39;Wuhan Virus.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Class dismissed. Above list found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acsh.org\/news\/2020\/03\/09\/msnbcs-david-gura-thinks-all-microbiologists-are-racists-14624\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ll grant you that it is if you grant me that leftism is a deadly virus and that leftists, &#39;liberals,&#39; &#39;progressives,&#39; and members of the Democrat Party in the USA knowingly and willingly carry and transmit it. Do we have a deal?&#0160; But if &#39;Wuhan Virus&#39; is racist, then then so are the following: West &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/17\/is-wuhan-virus-racist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is &#8216;Wuhan Virus&#8217; Racist?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6,43,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-fitness","category-language-matters","category-political-language","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}