Excellent piece in The Atlantic about why media and local governments, not just the Trump admin, failed to anticipate the dangers of the Wuhan coronavirus.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1242426243909332993 …
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John Daniel Davidson Retweeted zeynep tufekci
Excellent piece in The Atlantic about why media and local governments, not just the Trump admin, failed to anticipate the dangers of the Wuhan coronavirus.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1242426243909332993 …
John Daniel Davidson added,
zeynep tufekci Retweeted
Could you please watch this video of a doctor's body being transported in Wuhan with the sound on (that's his wife following the van) and maybe reconsider adding to the suffering of people in Wuhan because you want to feed a political beef in the US? https://twitter.com/i/status/1230038128271822848 …
zeynep tufekci added,
How on earth does it add to the suffering of people in Wuhan by referring to the geographic location of the virus' origin?
It's their home, and now it's forever associated with something terrible. They are victims of a government they had no choice in. Imagine your name being changed to your worst tormentor. That's what you get called forever on. That's what "I'm from Wuhan" has become.
I'd prefer to weaken the association between their home, and something terrible that happened to them they did not cause, and highlight the things they did actually do—their whistle-blowers, their medical workers... Especially now that it's become a pandemic.
The good news is that we can both accurately refer to where the virus came from as a way to push back again CCP propaganda, and also highlight the heroism of the people of Wuhan, as @FDRLST has tried to do throughout this crisis - https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/13/hear-the-voices-from-wuhan-that-china-has-tried-to-censor/ …
There is no need to call the virus its place of origin, though. Few people will read anything any of us writes about the heroism of people of Wuhan, but this virus needs a name forever. Again, imagine your name being changed to the worst thing that happened to you.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then. I happen to think it's important that the CCP is held accountable and that its propaganda doesn't go unchallenged. Naming the virus' place of origin is one way to call out the CCP's misdeeds in all this.
That's exactly the opposite of what that's achieving though. You're using the name of the victim to try to get to the perpetrator. It's pretty much opposite of holding the CCP accountable. Wuhan isn't their property or representative.
CCP propaganda has claimed the virus originated in the US, not China, and that it was introduced to China by the US military. It's important to push back on that and state accurately where this came from. Also think most ppl understand that the ppl of China are victims of the CCP
You can say all that without naming the virus for the first and biggest victims. That consideration should be first and foremost; have the domestic political argument after that. I'm well aware of the CCP propaganda. Helping stigmatize the people of Wuhan doesn't help a pushback.
I don't think it stigmatizes the ppl of Wuhan. I do think it stigmatizes the CCP, which is why the CCP is so adamant that media not use "Chinese virus" or "Wuhan virus."
Neither of those names are about the CCP. CCP just steps into these domestic fights because people using Wuhan or Chinese as name makes the CCP look better. It's not my first concern but that name is actually doing CCP's bidding. Chinese is a billion+ people, not property of CCP.
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