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You're joking, right?

edit: in case you aren't:

US: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/2120-anti-asian-hate-incid...

UK: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/13/anti-asian-hat...

Australia: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/victoria-urged-to-toughen-hate-c...

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Meanwhile in a China, foreigners (white/black people) are being kicked out of their homes and forced to sleep on the street, restaurants (including a McDonald’s) are refusing to serve foreign customers, foreigners are refused entry to malls, foreigners are unable to access important government-issued apps, etc. Asians aren’t the only ones affected.

The original comment did say it was only one example. But I'm a bit concerned about the tone of this response - we strive to prevent discrimination just because discrimination is bad, not as some kind of reciprocal favor to the Chinese government.

But we should also strive not to cherry-pick what kind of discrimination to report just because a specific country is good at crying racism. The discrimination against Asians (as people tend to assume any Asian they see is from China) was heavily reported and condemned by the press. Meanwhile discrimination against other groups of people (which has been far worse for e.g. foreigners staying in China) has been largely ignored in comparison.

Also, if governments had done their job and prevented all travel to/from China (as well as all countries that refused to implement similar restrictions) in the beginning, then we likely wouldn’t be dealing with a pandemic right now, and people wouldn’t have been discriminated against (more than usual that is). I’d say in the beginning (not anymore) it was also justified to be wary of anyone believed to be Chinese since there was a high chance that they recently been to China or had close contact with someone who had been (since Chinese tend to stay together when abroad).

Oh so that explains huge rise in anti asian racism? Like when people beat up Malaysians or Koreans because they look Chinese? FFS what is wrong with you racists?

There’s to my knowledge only been an increased anti-China sentiment, which is understandable since they’ve become the nazis of our century.

I don’t support anyone getting beaten up no matter what crimes they’ve committed, but I do support isolating China from the rest of the world until we see a positive regime change.

The racism towards Asians in general is overblown. I highly doubt that Malaysians, Koreans, etc. abroad have seen an increase in physical assaults compared to white/black people. If there has been for Chinese people then it’s also important to consider that they in democratic countries went out to have anti-democracy protests (and the Chinese were often very aggressive during these anti-democracy protests).

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