Extremely curious to know the precise moment at which washing your hands and declining handshakes became not-racist
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At the risk of fueling this fucking trashfire, I may point out that it was roughly around the time that people started dying *outside* of China. What does that tell you?pic.twitter.com/k1CCxxREEO
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Because it almost implies *to me* that everyone was fine with scoring woke points when the people who were dying looked nothing like them and lived in a faraway place
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Issue was, people only washed hands and refused handshakes to Asian-looking people. Until the first community spread case in Washington...
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This was true of the crazies who were ranting about bat-eating or whatever. But there were many folks who caught on to this early and were changing their behavior broadly. Many of the first adapters were elderly ethnic Chinese! They understood what could feasibly be happening.
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r u ok
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It tells me that until it was seen outside China, people didn’t think it was outside China.
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