The framing 'perpetuates the association between immigrants and disease' and could be a “dangerous precedent,' one sociologist said.
“We understand how the social post was set-up did not portray what we intended, which was to say that it is harmful and to be careful of stigmatizing others,” the health center’s email to Lee read.
“Xenophobia is not a ‘normal response’ to anything — it’s a learned and racist response — and they’re writing and publicizing this like an official health source. It’s infuriating that they’re using this mask of wellness to ignore their racism,” she told NBC News. “Rather than reframing the coronavirus as a disease affecting human beings, this association of the disease with Chinese people -- a diverse population that, by the way, includes over 1.4 billion people -- perpetuates the association between immigrants and disease.”
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