What's new in racism in Johannesburg? Black South Africans discriminating against Chinese-South Africans

By artappraiser on Thu, 02/20/2020 - 4:19am |

Discrimination against ethnic Chinese in Africa because of coronavirus — including against those who've been in South Africa for four generations. As @dwnews correspondent @adriankriesch reports from Johannesburg: pic.twitter.com/Vq3kBdFg55
— Melissa Chan (@melissakchan) February 20, 2020

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https://twitter.com/melissakchan/status/1230422627870744577

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This racist nonsense is not limited to SA

At a middle school a few blocks from my house, a rumor circulated among the children that all Asian kids have the coronavirus and should be quarantined. Misinformation has also reached higher education: In college campuses across the United States, some non-Asian students have acknowledged avoiding Asian classmates for no other reason than, well, the coronavirus came from Asia.

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Just look at the Instagram feed of another school in my neighborhood, the University of California, Berkeley. In a since-deleted post, the university’s health services center listed xenophobia toward Asians as a “normal reaction” to the spread of the coronavirus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/05/coronavirus-reawakens-old-racist-tropes-against-chinese-people/

by rmrd0000 on Thu, 02/20/2020 - 9:48pm

What's new in racism in Johannesburg? Black South Africans discriminating against Chinese-South Africans

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