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Originally Posted by opendoor
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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If someone wants to conflate criticism of the government of China and anti-Asian sentiment, that’s on them.
If there are idiots who think Chinese Government=Asian, I’m not sure how one could possibly consider them in a discussion about the CCP? Do we need a disclaimer for every thing so that people don’t take it wrong, or can we expect that people are generally more aware than that?
I’ve been critical of the government of China for at least a coupon of years now. Have I been contributing anti-Asian racism because I haven’t clarified that China is just one (albeit a ####ing huge one) Asian nation?