Australian-Chinese community facing discrimination over coronavirus fears

2020/01/30 1 Comment

Similar to Canada:

With fears over coronavirus increasing rapidly, the Australian-Chinese community is begging for calm.

Seven Australians have been diagnosed with the disease, which originated in China. It has already claimed the lives of 170 people worldwide.

President of the Liberal Party Chinese Youth Council Scott Yung tells Ben Fordham it’s paramount people don’t take their fears out on the Chinese community.

“We do have to remember that at the end of the day this is the coronavirus, not the Chinese virus… everyone’s been affected all across the globe.

“To have some articles use rhetoric such as ‘panda-demic’, it’s not really congruent with the successful multicultural society that we have.”

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One Response to Australian-Chinese community facing discrimination over coronavirus fears

  1. Dave's avatar Dave says:
    2020/01/30 at 12:18

    Lma0 @ “Similar to Canada”. – Yup the “racist” card being played & leftist hacks using it as an easy mark for further division.

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