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White House Official Calls Coronavirus Kung Flu In Conversation with Asian-American Reporter
BY ALAN RYLAND at Politicususa
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/03/17/white-house-official-calls-coronavirus-kung-flu-in-conversation-with-asian-american-reporter.html
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A White House official reportedly used the racist term Kung flu while speaking to CBS News correspondent Weijia Jiang, who was born in China and grew up in West Virginia. The official has not been identified.
Makes me wonder what theyre calling it behind my back, Jiang wrote on Twitter.
Weijia Jiang
✔@weijia
This morning a White House official referred to #Coronavirus as the Kung-Flu to my face. Makes me wonder what theyre calling it behind my back.
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The alleged incident comes after President Donald Trump faced scathing criticism for referring to the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed at least 96 lives so far across the United States, as the Chinese coronavirus in a tweet, a move that earned him a rebuke from a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman who said the U.S. should take care of its own business before stigmatizing the nation.
Far-right supporters of the president have falsely claimed that the pandemic is a plot perpetrated by Democrats who are working with the Chinese to remove him from office.
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captain queeg
(10,235 posts)Thats what many people are calling it.
edbermac
(15,943 posts)Shermann
(7,428 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,950 posts)Is she alright that he disses her race. Probably not, just like Clarence Thomas probably doesn't care that they use the n word either.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)sakabatou
(42,170 posts)bdamomma
(63,918 posts)just wait I hope they get infected with the virus, smug SOB's.