You feel avoiding little Canada would make you racist?
Against what race would that be?
I feel like the word racism has lost it's intended meaning if people believe not going to little Canada (for fears of getting a virus) is somehow judging a group of people based on their skin colour. A Canadian can be white/black/asian/native or anything else... A Canadian isn't a race it is a term that includes many races. Unless you are now racist against all races by not going to little Canada I can't imagine how that term applies.
Maybe you want to say.. prejudice (to pre-judge) rather than racist (to pre-judge based on race).
People were pre-judging when making decisions to go to chinatown. They thought with all of the international travel between China and little China perhaps they would be more likely to get the virus.
Calling people who made a decision based on belief of likeliness of getting the virus racist is wrong. They didn't make a decision on race they made it on some other factor that didn't include slin color.
Calling them racist makes you racist. You have pre-judged a group of people based on race (little China) when everyone else were basing it on geography. I hope you can accept responsibility and change your views for the future. The world doesn't need people judging others based on race we need to get away from that.
In other words, early on, it wasn't unreasonable to believe that P(travel to china|inside chinatown) > P(travel to china|outside chinatown), especially in a city with strong trade ties and relative geographic proximity to the Pacific ocean.
Against what race would that be?
I feel like the word racism has lost it's intended meaning if people believe not going to little Canada (for fears of getting a virus) is somehow judging a group of people based on their skin colour. A Canadian can be white/black/asian/native or anything else... A Canadian isn't a race it is a term that includes many races. Unless you are now racist against all races by not going to little Canada I can't imagine how that term applies.
Maybe you want to say.. prejudice (to pre-judge) rather than racist (to pre-judge based on race).
People were pre-judging when making decisions to go to chinatown. They thought with all of the international travel between China and little China perhaps they would be more likely to get the virus.
Calling people who made a decision based on belief of likeliness of getting the virus racist is wrong. They didn't make a decision on race they made it on some other factor that didn't include slin color.
Calling them racist makes you racist. You have pre-judged a group of people based on race (little China) when everyone else were basing it on geography. I hope you can accept responsibility and change your views for the future. The world doesn't need people judging others based on race we need to get away from that.