They brought up race because they were replying to a racist conspiracy theory amounting to them running Hollywood and pushing their agenda.
Hacker News is one of the few sites - others being Stormfront, Daily Stormer, 8chan - where that kind of shit still flies.
China has increased their power. Calling that notion racist discounts all of the different people who make up China's population. China is a country with people of many different colors, backgrounds and religions. Thinking of China as a single color is a little racist.
And they own media companies to push their agenda is flat out, textbook conspiracy theory racism, unless you have more evidence than something completely unrelated.
In that logic, criticizing someone is racism towards each and every group that human happens to be part of. That's plain silly.
Just criticism of the Israeli government?
Is your point seriously that such a statement is racist when about Jewish people, but not racist when about Chinese people?
Why do you think the last few Transformer movies were made?
China is using its position to propagate and censor media both domestically and globally.
Not liking the actions of a government doesn't mean you're racist against that population.
https://screenrant.com/movies-changed-for-china/
> Decisions to cast Tilda Swinton as a 'celtic' incarnation of the Ancient One, typically a Tibetan character, alongside the choice to move Stephen Strange's place of spiritual enlightenment and training from Tibet to Nepal, have created significant controversy online from those who argue that Marvel Studios is whitewashing Strange's backstory to better appeal to the Chinese government.
Propaganda doesn't have to look like a commercial from a tourism board.
Then what you said has nothing to do with what I was commenting on, which was not a claim that Hollywood will do what it has to do to access the Chinese market, but a claim that "they" own stakes in media companies to push pro-Chinese propaganda to the American public.
Do you have some examples of that?
You can split hairs and say that's technically not pro-German, but anti-Jewish or whatever, and put "they" in quotes all you want; nobody who cares about the actual individual people and not just sophistry in a vacuum will be moved by it.