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 …
"don't complain about anti-Chinese racism, the Chinese are racist too" is wrong on its face. but in hot-take-world, every take is at the expense of every other take.
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if complaining about anti-Chinese racism comes *at the expense* of preparing for the virus, which it did, that's bad.
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the anti-CCP opinion I hear going around is basically "the US elite is bought by the Chinese government, won't say anti-China things, and it got a lot of people killed because admitting a Chinese virus was serious would have made China look bad."
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This is a helpful clarification. My intention was to nudge my friend
@AlexRussek, whose retweet caused this to show up in my feed, along the lines of "why are you retweeting this lame zero-sum hot take?". -
ah, makes sense. I thought you were following Hotep Jesus and was like "what?"
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