Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

Excuse me? The mixed and often uncomfortable experiences of the incredibly minute percentage of black people living in China are well-documented. Tell me: am I to be considered an obvious racist for ignoring them, or for hearing them?

I would no sooner assign guilt for racism to all Chinese than to all Americans, but the extent to which discriminatory treatment is tolerated or endorsed is an orthogonal question that I'm not afraid to look at squarely. If you're going to put words in my mouth, think first.

Nonsense. I have a full laundry list of valid concerns with regard to the CCP, but I simply don't equate citizenship with ethnicity or governments with their people.

Insofar as China has racist cultural attitudes to confront, it's hardly alone in the world — but it's pure fantasy to pretend these are non-issues except when pointed externally in order to benefit the ruling party.