So, you have no idea that the NYT is part of your problem, do you?
The piece I posted did not come from the NYT. It was in an email from a bunch who used to be your boyz, back before your went low class, The Bulwark.
I do not actively read the NYT. I do have access to their articles if something I do read has tempting links to them. In this case I did not follow the link, just read the email. I do subscribe The Bulwark. I have subscribed to several publications since the Trump election simply because I think it my civic duty to support good journalism.
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The "Chinese Virus." Read this Graeme Wood piece on the obvious pivot that Trump and his apologists have taken in attempting to rebrand COVID-19 as the Chinese Virus or the Wuhan Flu or whatever.
What they want is for people to get distracted and to turn this into a second-order fight about racism or political correctness or the culture war.
Don't let them do it. Trump can call COVID-19 whatever he wants. He can call it Captain Trips if it makes him happy. But for the love of God, don't turn it into an issue.
Because the issue—the only issue—is the president's real-world actions which have made this pandemic an order of magnitude worse for living, breathing, people.
This is the issue. The only issue.
(And besides, the Chinese government really did slit the world's throat with its handling of this virus. There will have to be a reckoning for that, but only after the crisis is past.) Don't miss the Bulwark Podcast, featuring Charlie Sykes, Bill Kristol, and a whole host of people willing to tell you what they really think. |
