Why pandemics activate xenophobia The coronavirus
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Why pandemics activate xenophobia
The coronavirus is much more than a public health problem.
The Trump administration, unsurprisingly, is considering imposing major restrictions at the US-Mexico border in response to the coronavirus, even though the virus isn’t coming from Mexico. And it’s not just what’s happening at the top. Chinese-owned businesses have been hit hard by coronavirus panic. As Jenny G. Zhang wrote in Eater, the panic has had a “decidedly dehumanizing effect, reigniting old strains of racism and xenophobia that frame Chinese people as uncivilized, barbaric ‘others’ who bring with them dangerous, contagious diseases.”
By Sean Illing@seanillingsean.illing@vox.com Mar 4, 2020, 8:50am EST
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/...bia-racism
The coronavirus is much more than a public health problem.
The Trump administration, unsurprisingly, is considering imposing major restrictions at the US-Mexico border in response to the coronavirus, even though the virus isn’t coming from Mexico. And it’s not just what’s happening at the top. Chinese-owned businesses have been hit hard by coronavirus panic. As Jenny G. Zhang wrote in Eater, the panic has had a “decidedly dehumanizing effect, reigniting old strains of racism and xenophobia that frame Chinese people as uncivilized, barbaric ‘others’ who bring with them dangerous, contagious diseases.”
By Sean Illing@seanillingsean.illing@vox.com Mar 4, 2020, 8:50am EST
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/...bia-racism
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