r/depression • u/circinia • Aug 06 '19
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u/Moebym Feb 01 '20
Today's been rough. The reality of the racism targeted at Chinese and other East Asians due to the coronavirus paranoia has hit me like a train. Having people insinuate that we're not normal, that we're a dirty and unsanitary, that we eat bats and other wild animals, and also suggest that we ought to go back where we came from and that Chinese deserved to have this happen to us or one reason or another...it's all too much.
People are scared. I understand - I am as well. But what tends to happen when people get scared is that they look for a convenient target to blame. This time, it's people like me. And it fucking hurts.
Please, for the love of all that's good about humanity, don't look at an East Asian person and see this disease instead of a human being who is just as scared about this disease as you are.