Given the current climate and massive increase in anti-Asian sentiment recently, people would do well to consider how rhetoric plays into and feeds that. That doesn't mean we can't and shouldn't be critical of the Chinese government and their human rights abuses, but just as we saw with Islamophobia in the '00s, when people are whipped up into a frenzy over geopolitical tensions it doesn't take much to spill over into racism and xenophobia.
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