"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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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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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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Replying to @runclepennybags
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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Would Americans do this? Quite possibly! But we have health and safety regulations that prevent it from occurring in the first place, at least at any kind of scale.
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