"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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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
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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Nobody would object if you said "America" dropped napalm on civilians or clusterbombed half of Central Asia or murdered one million Iraqis for no apparent reason. But these kinds of observations are very racist when the Chinese government is involved.
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I don't think it's much of a stretch to say that "the disease was caused by Chinese people because of the disgusting food they eat" is heard as a racial message.
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And yet it is true, because of the negligence of Chinese inspectors southern Chinese with more money than sense are free to keep their bushmeat animals stacked one on top of the other in conditions that literally have already given us SARS.
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