"The entire [American] public discourse about the novel coronavirus has been shot through with anti-Asian rhetoric."

This is untrue. The author is lazily beating his well-worn anti-American drum.

This has pissed me off as well. For a while I've somewhat liked listening to Sam Harris but his rant on banning wet markets because they're barbaric came across as hyper racist. The LA times has another perspective

https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2020-03-11/coronavirus-ch...

If you're going to claim no one should be able to produce or buy food in a way that might produce disease then maybe point a finger at the USA chicken and pork farms.

To call out China as "special" seems hypocritical the say the least. Just because they eat something different. Koreans find the French to be barbaric because they eat cute little bunny rabbits. The point being don't be xenophobic because we eat something different than you.

Holy shit imagine this being what you're focused on right now, of all things.

It seems obvious why this happens when the disease originates in CN. Especially in the case of COVID where there were "bat soup" stories. If the black plague started back up in the states, folks would be blaming the US, no?

How much of this is just population though? I'm admittedly not super knowledgeable here.