Some black people were concerned about calling it The Chinese virus because it may be racist. Meanwhile, this is how China treats black people.https://twitter.com/demosisto/status/1248620700459356161 …
But that "classic" anti-racism is...multipolar? in a sense. it allows anyone, anywhere, to have agency, such that anyone can be guilty, or innocent, depending on their actions.
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Whereas we now have a covert assumption, "Only white people have agency such that they can be guilty of racism." It's actually ethnocentric. (And no, not all US anti-racists do this, but it's a popular thing in the press.)
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Like...the world is actually big, it is not currently run by a British or US empire, there are conflicts in other places that are real and don't have anything to do with white people at all.
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