“We regret any misunderstanding,' the university said in a statement.
The University of California at Berkeley apologized for an Instagram post about the coronavirus, which some say “normalized” xenophobia toward Asian people.
The original social media post was deleted, but a screenshot read, “Please recognize that experiencing any of these can be normal reactions and that over the next few days or weeks, you may experience periods of,” followed by a list of reactions including “anxiety,” “helplessness,” “difficulty concentrating,” “anger,” and “xenophobia .”
— Tang Center at Cal January 30, 2020 Several people reacted to the health center’s coronavirus post. Among them was a molecular virologist at the University of California at San Francisco, who earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. “This is really, truly unacceptable,” wrote Dustin R. Glasner, PhD, who wasn't immediately available to respond to Yahoo Lifestyle’s request for comment. “Stop normalizing racism.
— Dustin R. Glasner, PhD January 30, 2020 Noor Alanizi, a senior at UC Berkeley, tells Yahoo Lifestyle, “The Tang center's comment assimilates ideologies and mental health, thereby normalizing racism and creating misunderstandings about mental health. To reference xenophobic and guilty feelings in a comment about ‘normal’ reactions is to be complicit in racist processes by validating the 'othering' of people from Asia.
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