basically saying that calling coronavirus "chinese virus" is NOT racist unlike many other people who claim it is racist. He names a bunch of other diseases that are named depending on their origin. I think this makes sense, anyway here are some arguments as to why he's wrong:

washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/20/coronavirus-trump-chinese-virus
“It’s racist and it creates xenophobia,” Harvey Dong, a lecturer in Asian American and Asian diaspora studies with the University of California at Berkeley, told The Post. “It’s a very dangerous situation.”

"conservative media figures and Republican leaders have ignored guidances from health officials urging people to avoid talking about the virus in nonneutral terms, peppering their TV hits and social media posts with phrases such as “Wuhan virus” and “Chinese coronavirus.”

“Those statements are, in my mind, a game changer,” said Gilbert Gee, a professor with UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health. “Now, they’ve basically made it okay to have anti-Asian bias.”

what do you guys think

I dont see how its racist to say the disease comes from china though. It comes from china and pretending it doesnt cause it hurts peoples feelings is stupid and backwards as f***.

no one has qualms about calling ebola "ebola virus" and MERS (which has middle eastern in its name) those terms. why is everyone crying about this trivial s***? seems like nowadays people will go out of their way to cry and whine about f***ing everything

Why tf y’all so adamant on calling it China Virus or Wuhan Virus

There’s already two names that don’t include any kind of racial connotations that were chosen before “China virus”

Continuing to insist on it being called China Virus is the racist part

Racism is like cocaine.

how is that a racial connotation? why is it such a huge problem to say its a wuhan virus? if it came from texas or mozambique people would call it "texan virus" "mozambique flu" etc... thats what bill maher is saying in the video

it came from there and you should be allowed to call it that. people where crying about trump saying chinese virus like he just made up the origin of the disease

If its from China, then it is a Chinese virus.

Because it already has a name

It’s not comparable to Ebola or MERS bc that was the name given to them off top. If it was called China Virus off top it’d be fine. And no one is denying it came from China

But it has a formal name. It has an informal name. Neither is China Virus, and continuing to insist on calling it China Virus seems racially driven, otherwise what’s the point? Why not just call it by the name given to it like a sane human?

AIDS started in Congo in the 1920’s.

If people started calling it Congo Virus that would 100% be racially driven.

It’s stupid to argue otherwise

maybe giving it a name Chinese Virus they would be held accountable. China is a world power and can make changes to prevent this from happening. Yet, they reopened the wet markets

dont see how its racially driven to just call it a different name

if it came from there you can call it that if you like thats just my opinion, nothing wrong with saying "wuhan virus" if it came from there

yea this isnt even the first time theyve done something like this. they need to be held accountable

Honest question, why do you wanna call it that so bad?

What’s your issue with calling it Covid19 or corona

because i dont think its wrong to say that. why do you care what i call it. my issue is with those who call it racist

🇨🇳 virus

What do you mean, they're just calling it that because, uh.. freedom of speech or something

? bro what is the problem with associating this disease with the very people who started it? its about time china was held accountable for s*** that is actively killing people. yeah everyone is aware of the word "coronavirus" and "covid" existing but why is it such a huge f***ing problem to just say this disease is from china. isnt that the truth? china has already been said to be blaming foreigners and africans for the disease btw

they already have a history of human rights violations f*** em.

Incompetent americans trying so hard to shift blame after f***ing up their own country

Influenza/Spanish flu likely originated in a Kansas chicken farm, maybe we should start calling it America disease

AIDS originated in Africa, maybe we should start calling it The African Sickness

Do u see the problem here

It's not racist, its petty more than anything.

Also I love the thought that China should be held accountable for accidentally starting an incredibly infectious disease that killed thousands in their country

Dammit China how dare you accidentally do something that made my life inconvenient 😡