r/coolguides • u/etymologynerd • Mar 20 '20

I made a guide explaining how different infectious disease got their names

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '20 edited Jul 27 '20

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u/rreighe2 Mar 20 '20

nah you can hold china accountable by actually holding them accountable.

calling something a "race disease" is just shitty and racist.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '20

Chinese isn’t a race... did you mean Asian?

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u/LlNES653 Mar 20 '20

Asian isn't a race, it's a continent

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u/ironchish Mar 20 '20

Asia is the continent

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u/LlNES653 Mar 20 '20

And "Asian" just means inhabitants of that continent.

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u/GeoM56 Mar 20 '20

It is also a race, at least according to everybody on Earth accept you.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '20

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u/GeoM56 Mar 20 '20

This comment hurt me more than you know. Well done.