I usually don't share these type of stuff on Twitter, but I thought this is an important lesson for everyone. THREAD:

Tonight, I heard a white man in his 40s/50s use the word 'chink' to his friend on the phone while he was 10 yards away from me.

He said to his friend "Now you see China has a strain of the bubonic plague? Those chinks are at it again."

I called him out on how that was completely uncalled for. His initial reaction was "oh sorry, I didn't direct that at you. I was talking to my friend, I fucked up."

I told him I don't care what context you used it in, it doesn't matter. You shouldn't use that word to describe anyone. I then told him to be better than that, and walked away.

I was fuming, of course. Why would anyone in their right mind think that is okay to say to anyone?

Oh, right, it's because our racist president thinks it's okay to blame an entire race for the in-actions and failed response of our current government. Our racist president thinks it's okay to mislabel COVID-19 as 'Kung-Flu' and 'China Virus'.

And because of that, some people start to believe that this type of behavior is acceptable. I've said it before and I'll say it again. The Chinese government was wrong in trying to withhold and hide info about COVID-19 when it first started.

However, the US knew about this virus back in December and our president ignored ALL the intel, then the president LIED to the people saying he had it under control. When he couldn't keep it under control anymore, he decided to put all the blame back onto China and its people.

If you think that rhetoric from the president has no correlation with what happened with me tonight, please think harder.

Diseases are no longer named after their area of origin because people tend to wrongly attribute blame towards people of those ethnicity. That blame leads to fear, and more hate-based rhetoric.

Be better than that person.