• ram@bookwormstory.social
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      They always do. They’ll claim it’s not racist though and then the next breath say something about Winnie the Pooh.

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        …You mean the meme that Chinese people were outlawed from doing because it’s not offensive to Chinese, it’s offensive to the leader?

        That’d be like saying caricatures of an American President (of which there are hundreds of) are racist. Even when most of them were made by Americans.

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          As a result of it being outlawed and how prolific it became, white supremacists started using it to disparage Chinese people at large.

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            …How?

            That doesn’t even make sense. They’d literally just be too dumb to understand what it was even about.

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      Ignoring the second part of Blamemeta’s comment, the first part is correct: Chinese in the context of this article isn’t a race, it’s a nationality.

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        Okay, you’re only xenophobic, not racist. The distinction is really important to us!

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          I hope you’re asking in good faith. I’ll try and give you a response as tl;dr as possible here.

          Racism: hating people due to their ethnicity

          Not racism: criticizing people (even of a single nationality or ethnicity) because of their politics

          In the context of this article, most people in the comments are expressing privacy concerns over China controlling a larger percentage of the gaming market, and thus increasing the risk for demanding more data from the users installing that software on their machines. If anyone here were expressing racist concerns about this, people would be making disparaging remarks about yellow skin color or narrow eye shape, or something like that.

          Furthermore, incorrectly identifying racism where there is none actually detracts from the actual anti-racist sentiment - in fact, the one I believe you hold - by muddying the definition of what is and isn’t actually racism.