<p>Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), once of the Members of Congress currently under self-quarantine after encountering a CPAC attendee infected with coronavirus, set off a firestorm on social media late Sunday night, after referring to &#8220;coronavirus&#8221; by an earlier name for the disease, &#8220;Wuhan Virus.&#8221;</p>
<p>Reporters from MSNBC and representatives of various social justice organizations &#8212; dedicated leftists all &#8212; immediately jumped on Gosar, claiming that the term &#8220;Wuhan Virus&#8221; is &#8220;racist&#8221; and evidence of Gosar&#8217;s &#8220;anti-Asian bias.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I am announcing that I, along with 3 of my senior staff, are officially under self-quarantine after sustained contact at CPAC with a person who has since been hospitalized with the Wuhan Virus. My office will be closed for the week,&#8221; Gosar posted on Twitter Sunday.</p>
<p>Moments later, MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Hayes snapped back at the Congressman: &#8220;Just astoundingly gross to call it the Wuhan Virus.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hayes didn&#8217;t elaborate on why calling coronavirus &#8220;Wuhan virus&#8221; was &#8220;astoundingly gross,&#8221; but one of his colleagues at MSNBC, David Gura, quickly filled in the blanks.</p>
<p>&#8220;FYI,&#8221; Gura tweeted. &#8220;Calling <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash" rel="tag" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag"><span class="PrettyLink-prefix">#</span><span class="PrettyLink-value">COVID19</span></a> the &#8216;Wuhan Virus&#8217; is racist.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) also got in on the action, tweeting that &#8220;Wuhan Virus&#8221; is &#8220;an example of the myopia that allowed it to spread&#8221; and that Gosar was actively contributing to misinformation about the disease.</p>
<p>The leftist organization Sleeping Giants even made fun of Gosar for potentially falling victim to the disease: &#8220;Hope you’re okay, but perhaps while you’re quarantined, you will realize how astoundingly xenophobic it is to call it the Wuhan Virus.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Wuhan virus&#8221; is, of course, a reference to the city where the global outbreak finds its source and where most of the infected remain: Wuhan, China. Ahead of the virus making headlines in the United States, it appears many Chinese and Asian-based news organizations once referred to the virus by a similar name, &#8220;Wuhan pneumonia.&#8221;</p>
<p>There are a handful of instances where American news outlets have used &#8220;Wuhan virus&#8221; to refer to the coronavirus. Most of those came back in January and early February, when the disease was new to American media. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/09/asia/wuhan-citizen-journalist-intl-hnk/index.html">CNN referred to</a> &#8220;Wuhan virus&#8221; in January, and <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-we-know-about-the-wuhan-virus-11579716128">The Wall Street Journal,</a> which has since changed its headline, appears to have referred to coronavirus as &#8220;Wuhan virus&#8221; around the same time. The original title for the WSJ piece appears in the site&#8217;s URL.</p>
<p>In early February, when coronavirus began to take root in the United States, organizations and news outlets started to refer to the disease as &#8220;coronavirus&#8221; or, more specifically (and accurately) as COVID-19. The Asian American Journalists Association also submitted guidelines for reporting on coronavirus to most major news organizations at that time, cautioning against the use of the term &#8220;Wuhan virus,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rep-paul-gosar-s-use-wuhan-virus-sparks-anger-debate-n1153021">according to NBC News</a>.</p>
<p>Gosar defended himself against allegations of racism, noting that he&#8217;d simply referred to the disease by its city of origin. It&#8217;s &#8220;just astoundingly ignorant to have all major media refer to it as #WuhanVirus for months but somehow, today, you’ve decided that’s #racist,&#8221; he tweeted in a follow up to his original note.</p>
<p>&#8220;Ignore the snowflake Leftists who think everything is racist. It&#8217;s a virus. It doesn&#8217;t care about your race,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>Plenty of Twitter users rushed to Gosar&#8217;s defense, too.</p>
<p>&#8220;The virus that&#8217;ll kill us all is stupidity,&#8221; tweeted Neontaster.</p>

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Leftists Erupt Over Use Of The Term ‘Wuhan Virus,’ Claim Disease Name Is ‘Racist,’ Exposes ‘Anti-Asian Bias’