Racist vs. Spacist: The Effect of the Chinese-Virus Upon Minorities
Written by John (the other John).
This
past week I was talking with a Leftist colleague of mine, and she
mentioned that the disproportionate death count of minorities in the
U.S. due to the Chinese-virus is evidence of a “racist” medical
system. (Before I continue, just remember Aesop’s fable of “The
Boy Who Cried Wolf”; similarly, my colleague as a matter of habit
labels everything she disagrees with as being “racist”). Of
course I had to respond to this repetitive exclusive accusation of
hers by analyzing her response with two distinct lenses:
- From the lens of historical plagues, and
- From the lens of this specific Chinese-virus globally.
First,
plagues have existed throughout recorded human history. Whether the
plague in:
- ancient Egypt (see Exodus),
- the Antonine Plague (165-180 AD),
- Plague of Justinian (541-542 AD),
- the Black Death (1346-1353),
- Cocoliztli epidemic (1545-1548)
- Flu pandemic (1889-1890)
- the Spanish Flu (1918-1920)
- etc…
the
point being that plagues are not a creation of a white-supremacist
system whose intent is to wipe out black populations. Instead,
plagues do not discriminate based on skin colour; they kill anyone.
Second
as to the Chinese-virus globally today, although officially the U.S.
has the most deaths of any nation (please note that the official
statistics from China, India, and Iran have zero credibility for
veracity), the U.S. is also substantially larger than nations such as
Italy, Spain, the UK, France, Belgium, etc… The significance of
this is that to compare “apples to apples”, we must examine and
compare the death rate of these nations; and when we do, all of the
European nations I mentioned above have a higher death rate than that
of the U.S. Stated differently, the U.S. has a lower death rate.
So
once I made this point to my colleague, I proceeded to dispute her
accusation that this virus is racist to blacks, because if anything,
elderly Northern Italians are dying at a higher rate than American
blacks (as are Spaniards, French, Brits, and Belgians).
After
I said that, she was fuming. (I mean really angry). I tried to
reason with the available evidence that whether it is Italians,
Spanish, French, Brits, etc…, these (sorry to tell her) “white
people” are dying at higher rates than are American blacks. Hence,
the argument of this being a racist virus is meritless. (I did not
want to tell her she is f’n nuts, so I was diplomatic here).
Of
course she pressed me as to why are NYC blacks dying so much; it
must be racist she insisted. I disagreed. My theory was instead
that the one common variable of all historical plagues was the lack
of social distancing. In other words, people who live in densely
populated areas (ex., cities) are more susceptible to plagues/viruses
because of the lack of open space; whilst people who live in open
spaces are less likely to be as affected by a plague. (This is
evidenced by every major medical organization today promoting “social
distancing”. Moreover, this is also evidenced by the fact that
Los Angeles blacks are dying at a much lower rate than NYC blacks;
L.A. has more open space than NYC). \
But
not only did my colleague disagree with me, she also called me a
“racist” because I had an alternate opinion that rejected her
race theory. So in response to her calling me a “racist”, I
called her a “spacist” for her:
- rejecting my position about the lack of space between people being a cause of historical plagues spreading quickly amongst the population, and
- for her rejecting my position that elderly Northern Italians, Spaniards, French, Brits, Belgians, etc… are dying at higher rates than American blacks because they too live in densely populated areas with minimal open space, and
- for her rejecting my position that the cause of NYC blacks being affected more than other people in the US (including L.A. blacks) is because of densely populated areas lacking open space.
Needless
to say, she said she will never talk to me again. (Mind you, this is
a weekly occurrence, so we just end up having more disputes with
time).
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