There isn’t. It’s to show that America doesn’t have a monopoly of racism. Chinese government looooves to make America look racist, so shinning a light there.
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because Anglo-American anti-racism isn't *just* "let's oppose racial prejudice" any more. If it were, it would be easy to say the reasonable thing, "white-on-Chinese racism and Han-Chinese-on-black racism are both bad."
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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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"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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Obviously, racism against Chinese-Americans is still, in fact, bad. (& tbh I'm not crazy about calls to demonize the nation of China either.)
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what's going on at a political level is that China-bashing isn't about the Chinese. it's a populist thing against the "international" class. seems like the account you replied to is a black populist/nationalist, hence the "hotep."
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China prospered *seriously* in the 1990's-2000's, after market reforms, and a bunch of people with the means to do so wanted to get in on that. From the perspective of someone doing business internationally, the emotion is YAY THERE IS SO MUCH MONEY NOW. WHEEEE.
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New markets. New industrial bases. New funders. All of whom are getting more sophisticated as partners every day, but who are still (at least, were) easy for a Westerner to impress.
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