Media goes to extremes to push absurd racist meme

John Daniel Davidson:

Yesterday, amid the ongoing economic and social disruptions caused by the coronavirus, rising numbers of infections and deaths globally, and widespread closures of schools and other extreme measures imposed across the country, the mainstream media decided we should have a national debate about whether it’s racist for President Trump to call it the “Chinese virus.”

In what can only be described as a moment of unconscious self-parody, the media pretended not to understand why Trump would refer to the virus in geographic terms—as if they’d never heard of the Spanish Flu, West Nile Virus, Ebola, Zika, Lyme Disease, or the many other diseases named for their places of origin. As if they haven’t been doing the same thing for months.

Why? Because the mainstream media’s ranks are populated by biased hacks who don’t care half as much about reporting accurately on the Wuhan coronavirus as they care about making Trump seem like a racist.

“Why do you keeping calling it the Chinese virus?” asked a seemingly indignant and bewildered Cecilia Vega of ABC News during Trump’s press briefing yesterday, citing “dozens of incidents of bias against Chinese Americans in this country.” Isn’t this racist? Trump’s answer was straightforward and bone-crushingly obvious: “Because it comes from China. It’s not racist at all, it comes from China. That’s why. It comes from China. I want it to be accurate.”
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Trump has a point about accuracy. Indeed, “Chinese” is not a race but a nationality, like “American.” And of course in the phrase “Chinese virus,” the word “Chinese” is an adjective modifying the noun “virus.”

But set all that aside. Watching the exchange above, you have to wonder: Is there no one in the White House press corps who’s willing to pull Vega aside and implore her to not do this sort of thing on national television? Is there no one who will politely tell her she’s making a fool of herself, and in the process making the entire press corps look ridiculous?
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No. In the press corps, Trump derangement syndrome trumps logic and facts.  There is no end to their attempts to falsely accused the President of racism.  I get the feeling they hate people who are orange.