Xenophobia Is Not The Only Reason Trump Calls COVID-19 The "Chinese Virus"

Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling On April 5, 1876, twenty-five thousand people gathered in San Francisco’s Union Hall for a statewide meeting on Chinese immigration. No one, it seemed, wanted to miss the opportunity to voice their opinion on “the question of the day,” the “Chinese Question.” (1) Along with calling the Chinese “evil,” Chinese immigrants were accused of inflicting crime and disease on the state and the rest of the nation. The greatest condemnation was about race. They were unquestionably white, anti-Chinese activists argued, and would never be able to become like “white Americans.” What followed was the passage of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, the first law to...