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Why Hong Kong protesters insist on calling it the ‘Chinese coronavirus’
Hong Kong Free Press ^ | May 2, 2020 | By Sebastian Skov Andersen and Joyce Leung

Posted on 05/02/2020 9:09:32 PM PDT by Ymani Cricket

As the coronavirus has spread throughout the world, many have disagreed on just how we should refer to it. Some people, including President of the United States Donald Trump, insist on calling it the “Chinese coronavirus” or the “Wuhan Virus”. Critics claim that attaching such a prefix to its name may trigger a surge of anti-Asian hate crime, and people all over the world have indeed shared their accounts of racist encounters that were clearly emboldened by the outbreak.

In spite of this, many members of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement have continued to stand firm on speaking of it that way, mostly just shrugging off the criticism. One protester, 20-year-old student Adrian Hui, told HKFP he finds it wholly appropriate to call it the Chinese Coronavirus because, as the sentiment goes, “it comes from China, so why should I not call it the Chinese coronavirus?”

The Chinese government has since condemned the use of terms like “Wuhan virus” in the country and recommend other countries do the same, or at least refrain from using them.

“If the CCP won’t allow us to say ‘Chinese Virus,’ we definitely need to use it more,” Hui added.
“I have freedom of speech, and I don’t think it is racist or hurtful, it’s still just a name.”

A common argument for calling it the “Chinese coronavirus” is that it serves as a reminder that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) should be held accountable when the world eventually comes out on the other side of the crisis. Many protesters see the CCP as the primary culprit for why the outbreak was not contained before it spread to the rest of the world, and hence believe that China must pay for their carelessness.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; coronavirus; freespeech; hongkong
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1 posted on 05/02/2020 9:09:32 PM PDT by Ymani Cricket
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it’s actually chinee woohan


2 posted on 05/02/2020 9:10:41 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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“If the CCP won’t allow us to say ‘Chinese Virus,’ we definitely need to use it more,” Hui added.

That's the spirit of freedom!

3 posted on 05/02/2020 9:11:39 PM PDT by Ymani Cricket (Pressure makes diamonds - General Patton)
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What’s wrong with these people in Hong Kong? Are they racists?


4 posted on 05/02/2020 9:13:00 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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CCP Virus is more to my liking.


5 posted on 05/02/2020 9:14:48 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: TBP

They hate the Yellow Man!


6 posted on 05/02/2020 9:35:24 PM PDT by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: Ymani Cricket

L8r


7 posted on 05/02/2020 9:36:15 PM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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Yes. You gotta love the way the people in Hong Kong deal with this horrible matter.


8 posted on 05/02/2020 9:36:54 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (Life really is beautiful!)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

ChiCom Cooties———

But the phrase;

“Made in China”
Will become a
Pandemic Symbol
to the World
Forevermore.


9 posted on 05/02/2020 9:39:59 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (He Hath Not Given Us A Spirit Of Fear)
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Well it ain’t the hoo-ha virus. I’ve had that. It wasn’t fatal but it almost killed me and I’m still paying for it.


10 posted on 05/02/2020 9:40:47 PM PDT by Equine1952
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The spirit of Hong Kong is strong. The spirit of (what once was)Philadelphia is lost.


11 posted on 05/02/2020 9:45:23 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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The Chinese Pooh Bear virus so both the CCP and Disney will hunt me down.

12 posted on 05/02/2020 10:42:25 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Parachutes are only anecdotally effective due to the lack of significant double blind testing.)
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We can only pray for Adrian’s safety; however by now his organs have probably been harvested by the CommunistChinese regime.


13 posted on 05/02/2020 10:57:42 PM PDT by A strike (" Was that wrong? Should I not have done this? " - Costanza)
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14 posted on 05/02/2020 11:05:44 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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the CCP won’t allow us to say ‘Chinese Virus

The ChiCom 2020 Bio-weapon

The Coumovirus

The Bat-flu.

15 posted on 05/02/2020 11:06:45 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (We need to reach across the aisle, extend a hand...And slap the crap out of them)
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Opponents to the Chinese regime in power had its citizens protesting its policies , as in Hong Kong, since that change in American leadership. Wave the American flag and present his name when doing so. All of which presented those in power the need to destroy that leader Donald Trump.

Would a runaway plague created by a nation which could threaten populations of an enemy cause them to react by demanding extreme restriction of movement by its population to prevent its spread ? Thus wind up fragmenting its economy and create defeat for that leader’s upcoming election.

The way this whole thing developed starting with the Italian fashion industry areas controlled by the Chinese commies hit by a runaway CCWV (Chinese Communist Wuhan Virus) breakout occurred in Wuhan the politburo closed off Wuhan but did not warn the Italian Socialist government or the Pope with whom the Chinese government had good relations with.

But certainly violated it when the socialists should have been informed and allowed to deny those Chinese workers who replaced Italians in those factories taken over by the Chinese, travel to and from China particularly for their New Year while this was occurring. Which Trump did with the exception of only allowing American citizens returning.

Which affected workers at the Chinese owned Smithfield Pork Processing and had the China backer US media charging racism but may have prevented an Italy from happening here .

Sure looks suspicious particularly when crews of US naval vessels somehow wind up being infected by it while visiting certain Asian ports before that showed up in Italy.

Everytime an American looked at an item for where it was made in it came from this country (China). Now China’s reliance making everything was being threatened by a change in leadership in America which was a major consumer of those products. When Americans hailed their leaders decision to make many of them in their country US. Their politburo worried. Worse yet opponents to the Chinese regime in power had its citizens protesting its policies since that change in American leadership wave the American flag and present his name when doing so. All of which presented those in power the need to destroy that leader,


16 posted on 05/02/2020 11:32:54 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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no pun intended but they’ve got more guts than a lot of our US kids that age


17 posted on 05/02/2020 11:34:13 PM PDT by Ymani Cricket (Pressure makes diamonds - General Patton)
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Conservative radio talk show host Chris Plante calls this virus the “Wuhan red coronavirus”. I call it the “Wuhan red coronavirus of death”.


18 posted on 05/03/2020 12:51:41 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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This virus has given President Trump and with Biden going down in flames over attacking a number of women, the former will get back in November.


19 posted on 05/03/2020 12:57:34 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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Sound’s like Poe’s “Mask of Red Death” a bit


20 posted on 05/03/2020 1:51:00 AM PDT by Ymani Cricket (Pressure makes diamonds - General Patton)
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