Hatred Going viral

 THIRTY PERCENT of Asian-Americans report having been verbally and/or physically abused during the pandemic, as if a person of Asian descent living in the United States is somehow responsible for a virus which originated in a Chinese city thousands of miles away. attribute that gross misconception, like so many others running rampant through American culture, to a decided lack of reasoning, logic, and critical thinking skills. Chalk up another nefarious consequence of the nefarious Donald Trump, who, with the approval of his gang of followers, described the Covid 19 as "the China virus", seemingly unaware of adjective form, causal connections, or national and personal responsibility. There is no limit to the number of kinds or racism which infect American culture. None of them make any sense in a country composed entirely of immigrants, or the descendants of immigrants. You will recall the "Irish problem" in Boston, and other places. Benjamin Franklin openly lamented the influx of Germans into eighteenth century Pennsylvania, as if they would spoil the pure Anglo-Saxon blood of the British colony. Asians, like Africans, were essentially brought to North America in bondage, where they built the United States while being kept in bondage, then were conveniently discarded and treated like vermin ever after. And the beat goes on. Racism, a modern invention, has been a fundamental cultural feature of western civilization for about seven hundred years, has become a traditional value deeply embedded in American culture in particular. Racism is a traditional, conservative value, and exists today almost entirely within conservative culture and community, although once it was ubiquitous. the civil rights movement separated it from liberalism. Conservatives today steadfastly refuse to acknowledge the truth about modern racism, including that it is an invention of Europeans and Americans. The dishonesty knows no bounds. FOX news now claims that George Floyd died from a drug overdose, even though the coroner who performed his autopsy officially listed the cause of death as suffocation; police officer knee to neck, homicide. Racism only exists, contend many conservative "thinkers', when rabble rousing do good liberals start talking about it  Out of sight, out of mind, problem solved, racism vanishes, is evidently how they "see" it, incredibly. Affirmative action and all other measures and programs designed to combat racism are racist, goes their twisted "reasoning". The current right wing assault on Asian-Americans they write off as a hoax, or exaggeration. Actually, the elimination or racism will require the elimination of the twisted and fantastical ideology of modern American conservatism.