As of Wednesday, his seventh day in office, Joe Biden signed 40 executive orders; more than Barack Obama issued in his first year, and just 15 short of Donald Trump’s inaugural-year tally, based on National Archive numbers per BizPacReview.
One of them is particularly interesting.
In a scramble to combat racism and “xenophobia,” Biden signed an executive order banning federal employees from referring to COVID-19 as the “China virus,” a term coined by President Trump.
“During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, inflammatory and xenophobic rhetoric has put Asian American and Pacific Islander persons, families, communities, and businesses at risk,” the order states.
“The Federal Government must recognize that it has played a role in furthering these xenophobic sentiments through the actions of political leaders, including references to the COVID-19 pandemic by the geographic location of its origin. Such statements have stoked unfounded fears and perpetuated stigma about Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and have contributed to increasing rates of bullying, harassment, and hate crimes against AAPI persons.”
“My Administration condemns and denounces acts of racism, xenophobia, and intolerance against AAPI communities,” the order continues.
Biden suggested the Health and Human Services Department should “consider issuing guidance describing best practices for advancing cultural competency, language access, and sensitivity towards Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the context of the Federal Government’s COVID-19 response. In developing any such guidance, the Secretary should consider the best practices set forth by public health organizations and experts for mitigating racially discriminatory language in describing the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“Executive departments and agencies shall take all appropriate steps to ensure that official actions, documents, and statements, including those that pertain to the COVID-19 pandemic, do not exhibit or contribute to racism, xenophobia, and intolerance against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.”
But, the term “China flu” or “China virus” did not come from a vicious, racially charged or “xenophobic” place.
Rather, taking a look at history, it has always been common practice to describe flus and other illnesses from their perceived place of origin.
Here are a few well-known examples: Spanish flu, West Nile virus, Zika virus, Ebola.
So what’s different now?
Political correctness, or for lack of a better term: wokeness.
Perhaps rather than worry about what people are calling it, Joe Biden should focus on how to stop the spread.
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Joe Biden has no right to ban ANYONE, not even Federal Employees from calling a Chinese originated Virus as Chinese Virus, and the Supreme Court had better back up and financially reward every single citizen that sues Joe for denying them their first amendment right to free speech, which by the way IS GROUNDS to impeach him. This fool is begging for another couple hundred thousand descending upon the Capitol and they won’t be celebrating his inauguration. Joe is attempting to silence THE PEOPLE with executive orders in the same way High Tech does it with key strokes. These Constitutional offenses are getting way too serious, and if there is an ounce of working gray matter left in Joe’s brain he had better stand down, or he will be taken down by an army of protesting people his own age, his own race, his own sex, but not his own anti-American loyalties that Make China Great for the first time while Making America great again dies at each stroke of his pen.
IT should be grounds to impeach. BUT expecting the GOP to push for it, or hoping the Scotus, will do anything, is a daydream..
Beijing Biden signed an executive order banning federal employees from referring to
COVID-19 as the “China virus,” a term coined by President Trump.
Your new “Democrat Party Socialist State” dictatorship now controls what you say, what you hear and what you see. Only the Democrat Party State propaganda is allowed.
he Democrat Party State political officers and Gestapo are just getting started.
You will be loyal and support the Democrat Party State or you will be classified as
“Enemies of the State”.
Fine, just call it the Wuhan flu…that’s where it came from so why not?
“Biden signed an executive order banning federal employees from referring to COVID-19 as the “China virus,”
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
What part of “freedom of speech” confuses you?
ALL of it apparently.
Congress didn’t make this law. Joe Biden did by executive order. That is the loophole.
I can certainly see them trying to USE that loophole, to shank us over.
More supremely symbolic BS. Glad he has time for this when he’s not damaging our other Constitutional rights.
Waiting for him to try and void the entire Bill of Rights by executive order.
Give them time, i am sure they’re working on it.
Hey Joe, you have the “China virus” in your head and therefore, you are a “xenophobe” and a “racist”, against those of us that are Americans. Secondly, Joe, no one has harmed any Asians or Chinese in our Country. Nice try Joe!
40 executive orders , wow the CZARS have been busy all summer !
YET, every time Trump pushed an EO, the left ALL BASHED him as being tyrannical/dictatoral..
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
investing their money in all the scams they’re setting up at the countries expense.
Joe ‘Bidet’ and his edict to ban CHINA VIRUS, CHINESE VIRUS, WUHAN CHINESE VIRUS. Listen you goofy dunce. You want to ban these words because you deem them racist, WOW, that coming from you, who has a litany of racist comments that are documented. Joe, please, shut up for God’s sake.
Biden is a lot like Obama. They both have the ability to come across as genuine. Obama with his deep, resonating voice, and Biden with his ‘harmless’ demeanor. However, that’s it! That’s all they have, and really stupid people buy it. Biden has always been a stupid dunce. He just has the ability to con people. Example of stupidity? Biden, on video, telling the world he had the prosecutor fired that was investigating his wonderful choir boy, Hunter.
It’s not xenophobia, Drool Bucket, this Wuhan virus. The etymology of the word is ancient Greek meaning irrational fear or loathing of foreigners. More appropriate in this case, although untrue, would be Sinophobia. Although I know the ChiComs aspire to this, xenophobia encompasses all foreigners, for China looks upon its people, the Han, as superior despite their proclivity to steal the ideas of their betters.
“The Federal Government must recognize that it has played a role in furthering these xenophobic sentiments through the actions of political leaders” the order states WITHOUT EVIDENCE!
AND exactly where’s their PROOF, that this has “Hurt asian communities and businesses”??
The next thing to be banned is “woke” and “wokeness”, plus “political correctness” and “pc”. Just watch.
I have been calling Sleepy Joe “PinnochiJoe China Biden.” Put a banned aid on that!
That’s OK, I call it the WuFlu.
And another thing, they keep saying it has put Asians and Pacific Islanders at risk but never cite a single instance of them being attacked.
They won’t.. IT would require them to actually PROVIDE FACTS.
The loyalty and defense by Biden puppet master Obozo of a genocidal communist country spells treason in capital letters in my book while the FBI hunts down “seditionists” at the capital building who were set up by antifa on orders from the high priestess Pelosi for prosecution.
Okay, now this really irks me, as I have been calling it the WuFlu from the start, I felt it appropriate, descriptive and kind of cute, but now I’m going to have to use China Virus, which is no way as cute, just to spit in Biden’s face the only way I am able.
Seems the Left has many ways to screw up language and kill fun at every step!
Excuse my frustration with all discussion of “discrimination.”
My first little friends when I was a toddler was a large black family. A few years later, the Hispanic kids a block away were added to our games. Mine was a small, sheltered town so I rarely met an Asian, Jew, etc until I was in college. My first roommate was a man who had escaped Red China with a gunboat in pursuit.
After raising our blond, blue-eyed daughter; we absorbed our half-black niece as our “second daughter.”
However, because I remain “white,” the liberals are absolutely certain that I am a rage-filled bigot. For these who choose blindness, there is no way to entice their eyes open to any truth.