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 …
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Replying to @HotepJesus @AlexRussek
There's a legit concern that some Americans will attack Asian-Americans out of virus-related racial animus. (Already heard stories of this.) What's the relevance to that, as you see it, of the behavior of the Chinese government towards people residing in China?
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Replying to @ben_r_hoffman @HotepJesus
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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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ben_r_hoffman and
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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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ben_r_hoffman and
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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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ben_r_hoffman and
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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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ben_r_hoffman and
"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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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?".2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
ah, makes sense. I thought you were following Hotep Jesus and was like "what?"
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