[HN Gopher] India tells social media firms to remove 'India vari...
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India tells social media firms to remove 'India variant' from Covid
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Author : Pick-A-Hill2019
Score : 14 points
Date : 2021-05-22 19:59 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.bbc.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com)
| syspec wrote:
| As they should, look at the trouble caused by calling COVID-19
| the `China virus` or `Wuhan Flu`.
|
| I suspect, but cannot prove it is attributable to /some/ of the
| anti asian sentiment we've seen of late.
| loceng wrote:
| No, racism is attributed to racists.
|
| "Indian variant" is descriptive of where the variant came from,
| nothing more.
|
| Killing the integrity of language as a way to counter racism is
| non-sense, much in line with the neoliberal wokeism allowing it
| to be acceptable to not differentiate the use of master when in
| computer terms in master-slave or blacklist/whitelist simply
| because a lack of critical thinking and perhaps anger
| interrupting or disrupting that differentiation ability; we
| must hold the line for the integrity of language.
| Jack000 wrote:
| > "Indian variant" is descriptive of where the variant came
| from, nothing more.
|
| There are two possible interpretations of a phrase like
| "Indian virus" 1. a virus that originates from India (the
| country) 2. a virus carried by Indians (persons)
|
| Ultimately it doesn't matter much which meaning you attach to
| it, either one can be racist if you use it as a political
| slogan. It's mostly the context that matters in this case imo
| SheinhardtWigCo wrote:
| When you're sitting at the dinner table in polite company,
| I'm guessing you don't say "excuse me, I'm going to take a
| shit in the toilet". You probably say, "excuse me, I'm going
| to the bathroom." Is that killing the integrity of language?
| neither_color wrote:
| This is something I've personally done. I call it B1617 because I
| thought it was bad taste when the last president called it the
| [country] virus, or the [city] flu, and I feel Indians deserve
| the same respect.
| exmadscientist wrote:
| The political stuff aside, please _don 't_ call it "B1617",
| because the name in that nomenclature is properly "B.1.617".
| The dots do have meaning and tell the history of the strain.
| Red-Ted wrote:
| People call the Kent variant the Kent/ UK variant I'm from Kent
| and couldn't give a damn. People need to stop being so easily
| offended.
| loceng wrote:
| So is it okay to say B1617 from India or believed to have come
| from India?
| neither_color wrote:
| There are no hard rules to this. I just default to offering
| Indians the same respect that I give to other countries with
| more leverage to kick reporters out or take punitive action
| against western media bigotry. If you feel that this is a
| burden, then it's all the more reason you should defend
| Indians' dignity because to do so is to force your
| ideological rivals to live to up to their own standards.
| thro1 wrote:
| _.. in Bedford due to Indian variant_
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27250045 .. (waves?)
|
| On linked picture "super-precise" _descriptions_ by BBC:
| UK "Kent" variant B.1.1.7 UK "India" variant B.1.617.2
| Brazil variant P.1 South Africa variant B.1.351
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| Edit: If it happen (variant with B.1.1.7 and B.1.617.2 mutations)
| it may be called _UK "Bedford (& Glasgow ?)" variant_ without _"
| India"_ in the description..
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