“Chinese Virus” Hate Speech in San Antonio
Evidence points to China as the origin for the new coronavirus. Chinese Communist Party propaganda is attempting to pin the blame on others. (New Scientist)
San Antonio passes a resolution labeling “Chinese Virus” as hate speech. One justification for this is the victimization of Chinese Americans and their property. Asian Americans have also been attacked.
According to the article, Asian Americans are being profiled as disease carriers. In one week in March, for example, 650 racist attacks against Asian-Americans were reported.
From the Daily Mail:
The term Chinese virus has been labelled hate speech by San Antonio’s city council.
Mayor Ron Nirenberg, who put forward the now-passed resolution, blamed the use of the terms Chinese virus and Kung Fu virus for a rise in hate speech during the course of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Texas city will now ask its citizens to ‘report any such antisemitic, discriminatory or racist incidents to the proper authorities for investigation’, according to San Antonio’s WOAI-TV.
US senator Ted Cruz blasted the decision as ‘nuts’. He added that the council were acting like ‘a lefty college faculty lounge’.
In a tweet on Thursday he wrote: ‘This is NUTS. SA City Council behaving like a lefty college faculty lounge, triggered by Chick-fil-A & the words “Wuhan virus”.
The Daily Mail has the rest of the story here.
COMMIE CHINESE VIRUS!!!
Come arrest me, mutherfuckers….
So, will the “offenders” be sentenced to jail? Just waiting for the inevitable lawsuit for infringement of the 1st Amendment.
When were criminal charges filed in even one of those alleged 650 cases? Who was arrested? Where did they occur?
Come on, folks. Give us some details.
Sure seems like it would be better to investigate and arrest those responsible for destroying property and attacking citizens.
But I guess that would make too much sense.
You know, for liberals being so for criminal justice reform, they sure do seem to like to new laws criminalizing behavior. One could start to get the impression they aren’t interested in justice after all.
Will this ordinance cover other geographical names illnesses? What penalty will Hack Stone face if he mentions Spanish Flu? What about Montezuma’s Revenge? Isn’t that hate speech against a noble Aztec statesman?
GERMAN MEASLES!!!
Now waiting for Gauleiter Gretchen to sic the Geheim Staatpolizei on me…
Don’t give her any ideas. She just extended the infringement of certain rights to the end of May.
HEY NOW, it prefers to be called “Rubella-American”!
You forgot about……..YELLOW FEVER!!!!!
What was passed was a resolution and not an ordinance.
https://sanantonio.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4452051&GUID=03EBD8FE-0D2B-431E-856D-220CA2FC85AA
The only reason I am pointing this out is that a resolution is fluff. An ordinance is law.
Are descriptive adjectives now illegal? Scariest part is the “ask its citizens to report”. Not making any excuses for the SOBs that are attacking persons of Asian appearance, trash is gonna be trash, those acts should be punished. I guess next we can’t call in for some “Chinese Takeout”, or refer to “Taco Tuesday” as Mexican Food? No more turnip greens, ribs, fried chicken, meat loaf, or cornbread “Soul Food” dishes? GMAFB.
Does Mayor Ron Nirenberg need to be reminded to breath?
He might have coRONovirus.
The “CCP Virus” works.
“Covid” is an acronym: “ChiCom Originating VIral Disease”.
Yup, tying the name to the communist government. Their actions facilitated this blowing up on China’s, and the world’s, face. The Chinese citizens are also victims of CCP irresponsibility related to this virus. They only cared about the stability of their control over the population.
ChiCom 19.
Chinese virus is the Chinese virus. There is no other way to refer to it. Calling the term “Chinese virus” hate speech is childish and irrational, not to mention politically correct and virtue signalling. Why are you so afraid of offending the Chinese? Is it because you know they are going to take over. I say “CHINESE VIRUS!” loud and clear!
The mayor, whose cockamamie idea this was, is a member of San Antonio’s small, liberal, Jewish community and was raised in uber-liberal Austin by a Peace Corps father and an ASIAN mother. So he not only has all the liberal tickets punched, explaining his willingness to crap on the Constitution, he has a very personal, family interest in promulgating this ordinance.
I used to sit in on some San Antonio city council meetings back in the 90’s and can tell you the liberal minorities were already pushing anti-Anglo (White) restrictions like this even then. Now that most of the conservatives have moved out into the far suburbs and the Texas Hill Country (as the Poe’s did in 1996) the inmates have taken over the asylum.
I don’t see the Texas AG or Supreme court allowing this to stand.
So we can’t use nice dishes when company comes over?
You mean the Chinette?
that was clever – thank you
So, the cupboard where I keep the paper plates is a Chinette Cabinet?
So I can’t use my “Wuhan Cymbals” (Google that)
photos and graphics depicting WUHAN VIRUS on Facebook anymore?
(Let’s see how long it takes until the Facebook Censor kicks in.)
So will they ban “Hate take-out” food next?
“In one week in March, for example, 650 racist attacks against Asian-Americans were reported.”
Reported where and by whom?
Show me the evidence, the police reports, and the records.
650 racist attacks against Asian-Americans is a normal week of assaults by “liberal New Yorkers” on Asians riding mass transit.
From the article:
Against Korean grocers and liquor store owners in Watts?
No way…..Roof Koreans got their own back
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The San Antonio City Council is acting even flakier than that of San Francisco! What’s next?
So Wu-Flu and Bat Soup Virus are still fine, right?
Will I get into trouble for saying French & Indian war????
French fries?
French kiss
English Muffin?
Chinese leader Xi Jinping (習近平) asked World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to suppress news about the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the German intelligence agency BND found, according to a report by German magazine Der Spiegel.
During a conversation on Jan. 21, Xi reportedly asked Tedros not to announce that the virus could be transmitted between humans and to delay any declaration of a coronavirus pandemic.
It took until the end of January before the WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak needed to receive international attention.
The Trump Administration is now campaigning with the international community to readmit Free Chinese Taiwan as an observer member to the World Health Assembly, the governing body of the WHO. The chicoms had worked with its lackey Tedros to completely eject Taiwan as an observer member back in 2017 after Taiwan had gained observer status in 2009. The total ejection of Taiwan from the WHA and WHO has proven to be a global disaster after Taiwan tried to warn the world about Coronavirus Infectiousness in late 2019 and was ignored by the WHO and silenced by Tedros. Time to get the Free Chinese back into this important international forum…
https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202005020003
XXXXX ok? As a geezer i cant keep up with approved terminology.
No, it’s not OK.
AW1
[Removed] virus ok? As a geezer i cant keep up with approved terminology.
No.
-thebesig
Thanks for the reminder as to why TAH is no longer high on my daily check in list. Not seeing many of the others from my era either. Oh well, time marches on. I’ll revert to occasionally lurker status.
dude, I’m not admin but even I know you can have kraut on your dog, a frog in your throat, a nip in the air, a chink in your armor, keep your place spick and span, and own a guinea fowl without getting called out for saying so. Context matters. You might remember when we were cautioned about extreme language by Jonn – don’t give those who would harm TAH free ammo to call it a racist site.
Well, bye.
Sorry for double post. Not the sarc post
Antisemitic? Are they confusing Wuhan with Tel Aviv?
Nothing but a political stunt. The mayor is virtue signaling. Facts don’t care about your feelings…the virus comes from Chy-na!
Things were bad enough when the Mayor and city council were paid 50/60 dollars per meeting. Then they started getting paid a regular salary and things really started going downhill.
This is the same city that said Chick-Fil-A could not open at the airport and now when I thought they couldn’t get any dumber they pull this stunt.
Late to the party.
BUT. How about:
Wu Flu
Kung Flu
Winnie Xi Flu
Would those be acceptable?
(like I give a wrinkle on a fat rat’s tail about “resolutions” (not laws) passed in San Antonio.
Generally speaking (and according to the Texas Statutes) a “resolution” is not a law.
(Ordinances, statutes, and laws that are passed are law.)
This is the type of thing that people cower under because they don’t know what they are talking about.
All a “resolution” is, according to Texas law is “a formal expression of opinion or decision, other than a proposed law, that may be offered for approval to one or both houses of the legislature by a member of the house or senate.”
What is even more interesting is that in 1989, the State of Texas lost a famous case that went to the Supreme Court called “Texas v. Johnson (491 U.S. 397).
This is the famous flag burning case, the decision in which probably angers many people here. (The Supreme Court ruled flag burning protected speech.)
However, the key phrase from that case is this: If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.
Which brings up the question that we have been asking for years now: “where is the City Attorney in these types of votes?”
“City Attorney’s” don’t work for the people of a given city / county. They work for the commission and or councils of that city / county. They can be fired if they don’t go along with the Commission / Councils’ directions, even if they were to say “this is contrary to the Constitution and Supreme Court decisions.”
To us, this is another indication that the “lawlessness” in the land is often not from the people, but from elected officials and those working for any government.
How long has SA been so sensitive and easily worked up over things like “hate speech”? Went to 91V school in the mid 80’s and didn’t remember it that way back then.
OT! OT! GOTTA READ THIS!!!
CCP HAS WHO COVER FOR THEM!
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2020/05/10/german-intelligence-chinas-xi-asked-the-who-to-cover-up-coronavirus-n389565
Did the Wuhan lab shut down in October???
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/report-says-cellphone-data-suggests-october-shutdown-wuhan-lab-experts-n1202716
OH, NO!! Birx can’t trust the CDC data:
https://www.businessinsider.com/deborah-birx-cdc-comments-coronavirus-task-force-meeting-2020-5