Bill Maher blasts 'PC' uproar over 'Chinese virus' label: 'We SHOULD blame China'
By: Joseph A. Wulfsohn
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"Real Time" host Bill Maher slammed the "PC police" Friday night for overreacting to the "Chinese virus" labeling controversy.
But critics of the labels called them "racist" and "xenophobic," insisting such terms would incite hate crimes against Asian-Amercans.
Maher mocked the complainers, listing several other illnesses that are named after their locations of origin -- such as the West Nile virus, Spanish flu and MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome).
"You can't yell at someone for breaking a rule you just made up," he said, adding, "So why should China get a pass?"
The HBO star singled out Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., for condemning the term "Wuhan Virus" when he tweeted that the virus "is not constrained by country or race. Be just as stupid to call it the Milan Virus."
"No, that would be way stupider because it didn't come from Milan. And if it did, I guarantee we'd be calling it the Milan Virus," Maher reacted. "Jesus F---ing Christ, can't we even have a pandemic without getting offended?"
"Seriously, it scares me that there are people out there who would rather die from the virus than call it by the wrong name. This isn't about vilifying a culture, this is about facts. This is about life and death."
The "Real Time" host then blasted the "PC police" for saying it's "racist" to attack another nation's cultural practice, pointing to the wet markets that remain open in China.
"It's not racist to point out that eating bats is bats--- crazy," Maher exclaimed before citing experts including Dr. Anthony Fauci who have sounded the alarm on wet markets and the consumption of exotic animals.
"So when someone says, 'What if people hear Chinese Virus and blame China?' the answer is, 'We should blame China.' Not Chinese-Americans, but we can't stop telling the truth because racists get the wrong idea. There's always going to be idiots out there who want to indulge their prejudices, but this is an emergency! Don't we have bigger tainted fish to fry?"
He continued, "Sorry Americans, we're going to have to ask you to keep two ideas in your head at the same time: This has nothing to do with Asian-Americans and it has everything to do with China. We can't afford the luxury anymore of non-judginess towards a country with habits that kill millions of people everywhere. Because this isn't the first time. SARS came from China. And the bird flu. And the Hong Kong flu. The Asian flu. Viruses come from China just like shortstops come from the Dominican Republic. If they were selling nuclear suitcases at these wet markets, would we be so non-judgmental?"
Maher observed that if the Chinese military had deliberately used the virus as a bioweapon against the U.S., "we'd be at war" and that the virus has had a bigger impact on the U.S. economy than China's alleged "currency manipulation" that politicians have complained about.
"This is a dictatorship that for decades enforced a one-child-per-family policy under penalty of forced sterilization, but you can't close down the Farmer's Market from Hell?" the "Real Time" host told viewers. "Maybe to use that iron fist and pound it down like the whole world depends on it because it kind of does. And I hope that if someone told Americans that eating Hot Pockets could cause a worldwide pandemic that we would have the good sense of stop doing it. Although I wouldn't bet on it."
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I thought Bill Maher was a commie ?
I guess you'd know. After all, you obsessed over "Russia" for 3 years!
You’d they’d feel a little guilty after parroting the Steele dossier, which even the fbi concedes contained Russian misinformation and not be so blatant about running into the arms of China, but here we are.
As I said before, progressives walk the earth without a conscience.
looks like you forgot to
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You guys and your Russian HOAX
always do.
I often agree with Bill, and do on the Wet Market shit, not so much on the Wuhan Flu, only because his rabidly ignorant base were known to act on his prejudice beliefs.
Here’s a little flashback about another doctor the Chinese punished for Speaking out about the original SARS outbreak:
“Dr. Jiang rose to international prominence in 2003, when he disclosed in a letter circulated to international news organizations that at least 100 people were being treated in Beijing hospitals for severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. At the time, the Chinese medical authorities were asserting that the entire nation had only a handful of cases of the disease.“
Seems Like they keep using the same playbook and the same people keep falling for it.
You are talking about the other pandemic that came from the same place.
Ya, things haven't changed much.
"Hot Pockets suing Maher, news at 11"
It should be interesting to see what China comes up with next. Chinese researchers have been told be their universities that they have to submit all research on the source of the virus to the CCP who will decide if it's "suitable for publication."
I guess we can look forward to more racist propaganda from the Chinese government blaming "foreign garbage" for the virus.
If we want to agree, going forward, not to call it Chinese or Wuhan because somebody is offended or it’s leads to discrimination, then fine. But let’s not pretend there is some objective standard that we all knew. As many have mentioned, a lot of people have referred to outbreaks by location for a long time and never meant anything by it.
the PC movement died the day trump was elected...
besides that, who is so busy sitting at home that they don't have time to blame the country responsible?