{"id":99336,"date":"2020-05-09T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=99336"},"modified":"2020-05-09T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T19:45:00","slug":"chinese-virus-hate-speech-in-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=99336","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Chinese Virus&#8221; Hate Speech in San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_98691\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98691\" class=\"size-large wp-image-98691\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Coronavirus-Disease-2019-by-newscientist.jpg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Coronavirus-Disease-2019-by-newscientist.jpg?resize=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Coronavirus-Disease-2019-by-newscientist.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Coronavirus-Disease-2019-by-newscientist.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Coronavirus-Disease-2019-by-newscientist.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-98691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">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)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>San Antonio passes a resolution labeling &#8220;Chinese Virus&#8221; as hate speech. One justification for this is the victimization of Chinese Americans and their property. Asian Americans have also been attacked.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From the Daily Mail:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The term Chinese virus has been labelled hate speech by San Antonio&#8217;s city council.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas city will now ask its citizens to &#8216;report any such antisemitic, discriminatory or racist incidents to the proper authorities for investigation&#8217;, according to San Antonio&#8217;s WOAI-TV.<\/p>\n<p>US senator Ted Cruz blasted the decision as &#8216;nuts&#8217;. He added that the council were acting like &#8216;a lefty college faculty lounge&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet on Thursday he wrote: &#8216;This is NUTS. SA City Council behaving like a lefty college faculty lounge, triggered by Chick-fil-A &amp; the words &#8220;Wuhan virus&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Daily Mail has the rest of the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8300331\/San-Antonio-passes-resolution-declaring-term-Chinese-virus-hate-speech.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio passes a resolution labeling &#8220;Chinese Virus&#8221; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,484],"tags":[512,513,514,515],"class_list":["post-99336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-covid-19","tag-chinese","tag-chinese-virus","tag-hate-speech","tag-san-antonio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-pQc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}