Schulz returns to the idea that China (which he conflates with Asia) is to blame for the pandemic in his second episode. I mean, sure, it would’ve decreased deaths today, but the economic effects alone could cause far more deaths due to poverty, suicide, or your girl forcing you to watch Selling Sunset.” At the same time, he declines to criticize Trump’s lax pandemic policy “because we still don’t know the long term impact of the lung flu lockdown. “Did these precautions really protect us from getting the virus? Probably not,” he says.
Then he uses a few examples of overly strict enforcement-Los Angeles filling in skate parks, the arrest of a man playing catch with his daughter-to argue against health restrictions more broadly. He applauds early guidance that people wash their hands and wear masks, while criticizing Democratic leaders who didn’t follow their own rules and Republican officials who profited off early warnings about the virus. Schulz offers less colorful contempt for his own country’s response to the pandemic. But the Chinese government, though? Fuck ‘em.” I mean, Jeremy Lin, Jet Li, Squirtle, Mickey Rooney, the list is oolong. “I love Asians in general… Asians are the best. Moreover, the debunked idea that the coronavirus originated in Chinese wet markets is based in racist stereotyping.) “I love the Chinese,” he continues. He argues that if Xi Jinping-whom he calls “Winnie the Flu”-had closed wet markets, “maybe we could all have Christmas with our meemaws.” (China did shut down wildlife markets, which are often erroneously conflated with wet markets. Schulz follows up these generalizations about Chinese people by claiming he’s not talking about Chinese people, only the Chinese government. I mean, Chinese viruses have killed almost as many people as Chinese dictators.” They make everything over there: bubonic plague, SARS, bird flu, corona, 15-second dance videos.
I mean, let’s be honest: next to squatting to smoke a cigarette, slinging viruses is their favorite thing to do. “How about, China shouldn’t have been shoving it down our throats?” An image of people wearing masks appears beside him. “To all the people out there saying America shouldn’t have been showing so much skin, I refuse to victim-blame,” Schulz says of criticism that the United States was not adequately prepared for the virus. In the first episode of his four-part special Schulz Saves America, YouTuber Andrew Schulz calls the novel coronavirus “the Asian parasite” and the “Wuhanic Plague.” His language echoes anti-Chinese rhetoric used by Donald Trump and other GOP leaders, which coincided with a rise in racist violence across the country. Netflix’s latest comedy offering begins with a racist, xenophobic monologue pinning the Covid-19 pandemic on China and Chinese people. Subscribe here to get posts like this in your inbox. “This article was originally published on Humorism, a newsletter about labor, inequality, and extremism in comedy.
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