A “healthy” breakfast, with the Euro Weekly News article by Leapy Lee that takes racist aim at the coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Mark Footer A “healthy” breakfast, with the Euro Weekly News article by Leapy Lee that takes racist aim at the coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Mark Footer
A “healthy” breakfast, with the Euro Weekly News article by Leapy Lee that takes racist aim at the coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Mark Footer
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Naked racism aimed at the Chinese spreads further than the coronavirus, into print in Spain

A recent column published by an English-language newspaper in Spain takes aim at China’s supposed substandard hygiene standards. The diatribe is ill-informed and racist

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Updated: 2:39pm, 24 Feb, 2020

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A “healthy” breakfast, with the Euro Weekly News article by Leapy Lee that takes racist aim at the coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Mark Footer A “healthy” breakfast, with the Euro Weekly News article by Leapy Lee that takes racist aim at the coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Mark Footer
A “healthy” breakfast, with the Euro Weekly News article by Leapy Lee that takes racist aim at the coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Mark Footer
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Mark Footer joined the Post in 1999, having been the magazine and book buyer for Tower Records in Hong Kong. He started on the business desk before moving over to Post Magazine in 2007.