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Trump's 'Chinese Virus' rhetoric part of a long U.S. tradition of scapegoating

Name: Trump's 'Chinese Virus' rhetoric part of a long U.S. tradition of scapegoating
Uploaded: 2020-04-02T20:40:14.000Z
Duration: 4 min 52 s
Description: Americans are learning to live with COVID-19, but our country has been here before. Pandemics aren't new to the U.S., and neither is the impulse to assign blame. Americans have a long history of blaming foreigners, immigrants and the poor for disease.

Americans are learning to live with COVID-19, but our country has been here before. Pandemics aren't new to the U.S., and neither is the impulse to assign blame. Americans have a long history of blaming foreigners, immigrants and the poor for disease.