Viruses like the new coronavirus that’s causing COVAD-19 don’t discriminate among races, but clearly people can.
, decided to put some “color” in their headlines and writing, but not in a good way. As the following tweet showed, the newspaper used words such as"Alerte jaune," which translates to “Yellow alert” and"Le péril jaune," which translates to “Yellow peril”:
If you happen to be feeling xenophobic today, you know as opposed to the other day when you had a touch of misogyny or yesterday when you had a bout of homophobia, don’t worry. A University of California, Berkeley, Instagram account posted a list of “common reactions” to the 2019-nCoV outbreak that included “difficulty concentrating and sleeping” and “xenophobia.
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