{"id":76612,"date":"2021-02-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76612"},"modified":"2021-01-29T08:20:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T14:20:59","slug":"question-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76612","title":{"rendered":"Question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A friend of the blog emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>How come we can call the new Covid strain from Brazil &#8220;The Brazil Strain&#8221; but we can&#8217;t call the Chinese strain &#8220;The Chinese Strain&#8221;?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Presumably because Brazilians are &#8220;white Hispanics&#8221; [1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[1] &#8220;Hispanic&#8221;, meaning from the Iberian Peninsula, which is where Portugal is.  And yes, the vast majority of Brazilians are not of Iberian descent.  The joke is as absurd as the intersectional double-standard. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog emails: How come we can call the new Covid strain from Brazil &#8220;The Brazil Strain&#8221; but we can&#8217;t call the Chinese strain &#8220;The Chinese Strain&#8221;? Presumably because Brazilians are &#8220;white Hispanics&#8221; [1] [1] &#8220;Hispanic&#8221;, meaning from the Iberian Peninsula, which is where Portugal is. And yes, the vast majority of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76613,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76612\/revisions\/76613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}