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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
Hi, Jewish guy married to a Chinese ex-pat here.
It's perfectly reasonable to oppose anti-semitism and acknowledge that Israel's actions as an apartheid state contribute to anti-Jewish sentiments worldwide.
Same goes for China. Sinophobia affects my wife and child (more times than I would have expected during COVID especially), and bigots should be called out as the backwards moronic #######s they are. This is not mutually exclusive for telling the Chinese government to go #### themselves for being genocidal #######s that are fingering the buttholes of Western governments and provoking things like RCMP investigations.
Two things can be simultaneously correct.
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This, I agree with. The only thing I would say is that while actions of Israel, China etc. can contribute to negative sentiments, no country on the other side of the world is making anyone in the US or Canada act in any racist or bigoted ways. People need to be given responsibility for their choices in how they treat others. I dislike the actions of many governments around the world, but I don't choose to view people from anywhere negatively on the basis of what their government has done if they have nothing to do with it.
So, statements that attribute the responsibility to China, Israel, Iran, Russia or wherever for racism or acts of bigotry towards people from those countries are problematic. The actions of the countries can be fairly attacked and criticized, but racism or bigotry here or in the US is a problem with the choices and views of people who hold those ignorant beliefs and act in those harmful ways. No far away country is making anyone racist. If anything, it is ignorance and fear mongering or hate in a person's current environment that encourages racism and bigotry.