"Hate speech towards China" https://thenextweb.com/world/2020/03/27/twitter-sees-900-increase-in-hate-speech-towards-china-because-coronavirus/ …
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Call it a Freudian slip? Doesn't seem like "hate speech" is particularly menacing if it's directed towards a state.
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People of China
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Hate speech becomes more menacing when it is entangled with big league political rivalries (such as inter-state conflicts).
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Seems straightforward enough: people of Chinese descent, and frankly Asian descent generally, are associated with China in the minds of racists, and are likely to be targeted by people angry at China in the way people beat up people with brown skin because of 9/11
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Right, but those are Chinese people, not the country of China. It isn't hate speech to say China left wildlife markets open that they knew were filthy and riddled with exotic viruses, or that they put Muslims in concentration camps.
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