“Real Time” host Bill Maher slammed the “PC police” Friday night for overreacting to the “Chinese virus” labeling controversy.
As the coronavirus outbreak continued spreading across the U.S., President Trump and others sparked a national debate by referring to the disease as the “Chinese coronavirus” or the “Wuhan virus” because it began infecting people in Wuhan, China.
But critics of the labels called them “racist” and “xenophobic,” insisting such terms would incite hate crimes against Asian-Amercans.
Maher mocked the complainers, listing several other illnesses that are named after their locations of origin — such as the West Nile virus, Spanish flu and MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome).
“You can’t yell at someone for breaking a rule you just made up,” he said, adding, “So why should China get a pass?”
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