歧视离我们很近!
就在今天,省报头版黑体大字写着“中国病毒”。这一行为深深伤害了华裔,与加拿大的社会价值观严重不符,有种族歧视之嫌。请各位朋友用自己的Email,粘贴复制以下内容,并在最后署名,发送至省报电子邮箱以示抗议。
省报电子邮箱地址如下:
provletters@theprovince.com
Email正文如下:
Dear Editors at the Province Newspaper,
On the front page of your paper today, you use huge block letter of CHINA VIRUS. This is very insensitive and plainly not proper headline. WHO, Canadian and Provincial authorities are all referring this virus as novel coronavirus, so there is an official name to this virus that you should be using. H1N1 influenza virus was first found in the United States, and we never refer to the virus as American or US virus; Zika virus was first found in Brazil, and we never call it Brazilian virus; Ebola virus originated from Congo, and we never say it is Congo virus. Your choice of words calling it China virus is simply wrong and not in accordance with Canadian values, not up to Canadian journalism ethic standard.
I strongly urge you to withdraw such words, stop calling the novel coronavirus China virus, and make an apology for this insensitive choice of words.