"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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Replying to @jackfruitstaken
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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Replying to @runclepennybags
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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