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Criminalizing truth. Orwell.
San Antonio City Council Denounces The Utterance of Chinese Flu “Hate Speech”
By Allan Wall, News With Views, May 15th, 2020
Freedom of speech is under attack in our country.
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According to an article on News 4 San Antonio, “City Council unanimously passed a resolution that denounces the use of terms like ‘Chinese virus’ and ‘Kung Fu Virus’ as San Antonio continues to fight against the spread of COVID-19.”
So the City Council of a major American city “denounces” calling COVID-19 the “Chinese virus” even though the virus came from China.
The article goes on to report that “The resolution condemns any hate speech, violent action and the ‘spread of misinformation related to COVID-19.’ ”
Notice how the concepts of “hate speech” (defined by whom?) is placed next to “violent action”.
Any sort of “violent action” is already covered by laws against assault and battery, vandalism and murder. Why lump “violent action” in with “hate speech”?
San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg urged the council members to vote for this resolution, to which they obediently responded by voting 11 to 0 to approve it.
Last year, the same mayor campaigned to get a Chick-fil-A restaurant kicked out of a contract at San Antonio’s airport. Thankfully, Nirenberg wasn’t successful, but it shows where his heart is. (For my previous articles on the ongoing Chick-fil-A imbroglio, , click here, here and here.
By following a link on the previously-linked News 4 San Antonio article, you can see the actual resolution. Here are a few gems from that:
“WHEREAS, COVID-19 is a public health issue, not a racial, religious or ethnic one, and the deliberate use of terms such as ‘Chinese virus’ or ‘Kung Fu virus’ to describe COVID-19 only encourages hate crimes and incidents against Asians and further spreads misinformation at a time when communities should be working together to get through this crisis;…”
Note how the resolution affirms that just saying “Chinese virus” to refer to COVID-19 “only encourage hate crimes and incidents against Asians…”
It’s rather amazing when you think about it. The next “Whereas” says that “the Jewish community has been targeted with blame, hate, antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories about their creating, spreading and profiting from COVID-19”.
What does saying “Chinese virus” have to do with that?
Any real violence perpetrated against anyone ought to be punished, and it’s already illegal. What we have in this resolution is an attempt to discourage freedom of speech.
The resolution declares that “The City of San Antonio denounces antisemitism, anti-Asian bigotry, and all hateful speech, violent action and the spread of misinformation related to COVID-19 that casts blame, promotes racism or discrimination or harms the City of San Antonio Asian and Pacific Islander, Jewish, immigrant or other communities.”
Notice how it combines “violent action” and “hateful speech”. Once again, who defines “hateful speech”?
What about “the spread of misinformation”? After all, even experts don’t agree on COVID-19 policy.
What about “casting blame”? Does that mean you can’t criticize the Communist Chinese government for its handling of the Coronavirus, nor the World Health Organization?
How about Democratic politicians who “cast blame” on Trump’s handling of the crisis? Would they be covered by this? Probably not, if they’re anti-Trump.
Maybe this resolution doesn’t amount to much in the big scheme of things, but it’s an example of a dangerous way of thinking.
Another article by News 4 San Antonio quoted Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales who discussed a San Antonio Chinese restaurant called Golden Star: “It’s been in operation for almost 90 years. They’re a Chinese restaurant family and they have been threatened. They have been the victims of hate speech and hate crimes, with vandalism and that sort of thing on their property.”
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29 Comments
3 years ago
Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth. – Socrates
3 years ago
Reply to
carpe diem 36
Oh yes lies were used to execute Socrates, and almost execute Aristotle.
3 years ago
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
People often say that this “hate” came out when President Trump stopped the Left Train of Killary.
Not true….it was started in around the Viet Nam war era of the 60s….the Communist professors stoking it in our colleges…..unfortunately, being called false nasty names worked on people who were not used to it….they did cow and did bow to their demands…..
It has gotten exponentially worse since then as more and more college kids came out o the universities…..they invented whole grievous “industries” around this ploy. The main ploy was calling people ugly names if they didn’t do as they said. Most polite people couldn’t take it and bent over backwards to accommodate their demands.
Those kids moved into Federal, State, and local governments….now their kids run them. Then you got “diversity” hires of incompetent people… it’s been all downhill since.
Civility and fairness is gone from America…..the last gasp is before us. If not for President Trump…if Clinton had gotten in to that office….we’d already be done.
We were a country where each person -no matter the race- excelled on their character and quality of work. WE need to get back to that…..no matter how many ugly, false names are hurled at us.
President Trump/KAG/2020.
3 years ago
So I can’t say “WUHAN VIRUS” or “KUNG FLU” either?
Pity I can’t say here what I actually think of China.
3 years ago
Reply to
BanLiberals
This is America….you have free speech. You can call it anything you want…..as long as you don’t mind being called “RACIST”!
They can call me anything they want….doesn’t make it true. And, it shows just how limited their vocabulary is…..and their Totalitarian goals.
3 years ago
pamela, the mayor is a jew. like all jews in the democrat party, he hates america. i’d love to see an essay from you as to why that segment of jewish america loathes us
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
Why not ask her to do an inquiry on why so many Catholic Democrats hate their country.
Then there are the Protestant Democrats who hate the USA.
Muslims in the US government hate the US.
And why do you always post about Jews, singling them out? Why?
3 years ago
Reply to
stephen5970
…because they are the most visible in their treachery…and the most in people’s faces. It’s in their DNA.
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
…no mystery…..they are totalitarians first….Jews last.
Think of Professor Alan Dershowitz …..a legal mastermind, a Jew, and a Democrat. Once he started arguing for the LAW instead of the Left’s mantra about 3 years ago….he and his wife were shunned by their Libtard Jewish “friends” and Martha’s Vineyard group. I would argue then they weren’t really their friends in the first place.
He mentioned how they were no longer invited to the dinners and gatherings of their Libtard Left. Sad at his age to be shunned by all the people who you thought they were your lifelong friends….I admire him for sticking to the law and his principles.
As for these Jews of today that you mention…..Hitler found their type very useful back in his day.
3 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
still a mystery to me. a people group who have been persecuted around the globe for thousands of years, found a country where they were not persecuted and thrived, where the liberty bell is inscribed with a quote from the Torah, where Moses is inscribed on the supreme court walls, and then a segment of them decided to do all they could to destroy that country.
3 years ago
In years past newly discovered viruses that caused disease were named after cities and locals where the virus was first discovered. Here are some examples, the Marburg virus was named after the city Marburg Germany, the Ebola virus was named after the Ebola River in Africa, the Hantavirus was named after the Hantan River in South Korea. If the old system of naming viruses had been used, this Coronavirus would have been named the Wuhan virus after the city where it was first discovered. But now virus researchers have to be careful that they do not name viruses after a city or nearby river where the virus is discovered, lest it be interpreted as Hate Speech or demeaning some group of people.
3 years ago
Reply to
David Grisez
China originally called it the Wuhan Pneumonia Virus. Sounds about right to most except for the WHO and the SJWs amongst us.
3 years ago
All speech is protected under the first amendment. Polite speech does not need protection. Yelling ‘fire’ in a theatre is not the same as yelling ‘China’! Democrats are the stupidest people alive….yep, protected speech.
3 years ago
Reply to
Emily Summer
A good number of dumbocrats are not alive, yet they always have their votes counted at election time.
3 years ago
BUT IT WAS…C-H-I-N-A!!!
3 years ago
“Usinging” What isl that??? Is this in Chinese??
3 years ago
So, no more German measles otherwise you are RACIST! No more referring to the Spanish flu else you are RACIST! No more talking about the Black plague else be called RACIST!
When you play politically correct you spend all your time being indignant for others, and no one but yourself is innocent and pure of mind. Perpetually angry, aka Karen.
Its Double Speak Good otherwise you will be made an example. Freedom of speech is going away, and then will come free thought eradicated, and finally the world of THX11381.
3 years ago
3 years ago
First….it started in Wuhan…so at that point, it was the “Wuhan Virus”. No one in Wuhan was allowed to leave and go around China.
However, the Chinese follow the old sayings, “misery loves company” and ” never let a crisis go to waste.”
They not only allowed, but encouraged, people to leave China and go across the globe to spread it. I think I heard something like 437,000 spread out across the globe. If President Trump had not closed our country…..we would have been hit far worse. But, instead, the Left Enemies of America criticized him viciously.
At that point….it became the “Chinese Virus.” To me, this was China making the best of a bad situation. And, if they were going to suffer…..so was everyone else on the globe. To China, all other countries are their ENEMIES. They saw the “equalizing” benefit in sending the virus out across the globe…..no matter how many people they killed, or how many countries they destroyed.
All of this was done with the help and coordination of the W.H.O……Tedros and his stooges.
If Americans didn’t know what the long term goal of China and other other Globalists across the world was/is before this virus, they should know now. If not, please exit America and find some other Communist Utopia to go to.
3 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
Just another example of China’s habit of comandeering
tech knowledge from others and putting it to use in reaching their own goals.
I firmly believe that this pandemic thing is not completely of China’s doing.
Call me a conspiracy theorist
but I seethe Dem enjoying this
shutdown of America I bit too
much.
Just sayin’.
3 years ago
I am quite sure the San Antonio City Council has much more pressing matters to deal with that using a straw man argument to quell free speech. Calling it “Kung Flu” or “Wu Flu” does not cause any violent actions against Asians in this country, it is merely giving credit where credit is due. The flu came from Wuhan, so Wu Flu it is!
3 years ago
Who gives a Rat’s furry ass ?
