On the web, the hashtag #JeNeSuisPasUnVirus aggregates the testimonies of the Asian community denouncing the amalgams and the ambient racism of which they are the victims since the health crisis around the coronavirus. - Screenshot / Twitter

"No, a person of Chinese origin is not a person carrying the coronavirus! We are not viruses! The update was published by the Association of Young Chinese in France (AJCF) on its Facebook page on January 25. The association reacted to the "front page" of the daily newspaper Le Courrier Picard of the same day, titled "Chinese Coronavirus - Yellow Alert" and inside which readers could find an editorial titled "The yellow danger? ".

Terms denounced by the AJCF, the expressions "yellow" and "yellow peril" alluding to racist stereotypes targeting the Asian community. The Picard daily has since made its mea culpa.

The testimonies are multiplying

The hashtag #JeNeSuisPasUnVirus continues to run on social networks, to denounce the discrimination and amalgamation that people of Asian origin suffer against a background of psychosis around the spread of the coronavirus. It was launched in recent days by an anonymous young woman to "counter the ambient racist stench". She deplores “that the coronavirus health crisis is bringing in its wake a release of racist speech in the media and on social networks.

I share the text and the hashtag created by an adopted comrade who does not want her name to be mentioned in order to avoid harassment and anti-Asian racism which she denounces.

Thank you for relaying his word.
—- # JeNeSuisPasUnVirus # coronavirus # RacismeAntiAssie pic.twitter.com/z2KMx3WZUf

- Amandine Gay (@OrpheoNegra) January 27, 2020

Several messages, under cover of an alleged humor, stigmatize the Asian population and / or relay amalgams. And these stigmatizations are not limited to social networks, assure Internet users. Still under the hashtag #JeNeSuisPasUnVirus, Prisca, Frenchwoman of Polish-Vietnamese origin, "and therefore with slanted eyes", deplores, this Tuesday morning, the people who stare at her in the metro "and put their scarves on their noses when I follow them ”.

It is said that I am FRENCH of POLISH-VIETNAMESE origin and therefore with slanted eyes and that people in the metro stare at me and put their scarves on their noses when I am near them? #JeNeSuisPasUnVirus #coronavirus

- Prisca (@Prisca_Adamska) January 28, 2020

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