It’s not racist. Calling it Chinese Virus is racist. china called it wuhan virus. And most of Asia continues to call it Wuhan Virus.
I would agree if the original name was China/Chinese Virus. The problem is that, that particular naming is targeted at china because they were being twats by making rumors/propaganda blaming America.
So I feel that the people using that name are using it as a middle finger, which I don't agree with. That doesn't make the words itself racist, but the usage of it racist.
I hope that makes sense?!?
Wuhan is just the place of origin and no one battered an eyelid to it when it was first named Wuhan Virus or Wu Flu. I've never seen it used negatively.
I never head anybody calling it "Chinese Virus" until right after Chinese officials were found to be spreading rumors that the virus came from a US military operation. When those rumors started, the Chinese ambassador to the US was called in to get a scolding and the president immediately started using "Chinese Virus" very purposely.
In other words, it's simply the mildest justified revenge, without even a claim that anything was intentional.
Also, I'm now in Asia and everybody around me calls it COVID or Corona.
Do you have a source for this?
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Wuhan%20virus,SAR...
To be clear when I say "most of asia" I don't mean, every country, and every news outlet. But that it's not uncommon.
I've seen news in Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia, all refer to it as Wuhan Virus.
Singapore (where I live) I don't recall seeing it referred to as Wuhan Virus since maybe mid-march.
In any case if someone refers to it as Chinese/China Virus, I completely agree that it's racist. But Wuhan is the origin, and the original name given. Renaming has probably only hurt china more as people are very angry with the WHO and ccp.
> "a mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person."
and gives the following example
> "the stigma of having gone to prison will always be with me"
This is an example of rational stigma. For example if you know someone who went to prison for robbery, they would have a rational stigma associated with them when they try to apply for a job at a bank. Not an oxymoron.
Stigmatization is the act of creating stigmas. Maintaining them. And that is very clearly not rational. To be rational, you'd re-evaluate the person from the ground up before each event. Sure, being in prison would still be a factor, one of many. But stigma assumes that this factor alone defines the whole outcome, which is irrational.