My brother expressed racist views towards the Chinese the other day and I defended them, but it wasn't easy with their horrible wet markets where live animals are sold.
But in the West we have farmers markets where live animals are sold too, and then taken to slaughter, and with what I've seen on Twitter it's often horrendous, so horrible, in fact, that I won't describe it here.
Sinophobia is a fear or prejudice of expressed towards China and its people. Similar to other varieties of racism, such as Islamophobia, Sinophobia embodies a series of beliefs and discourses that place emphasis on the apparent cultural inferiority and backwardness of “Chinese culture” to the western dynamic, which are used to argue that the “ways” of China pose an existential threat to the norms and values of a given society, or what was historically referred to as a “Yellow Peril”. The prejudice relies upon a series of cliches and representations regarding Chinese people and their way of life and in turn positions itself from a position of assumed western supremacy, of which owing to the legacy of colonialism treats China as “problem must be solved”.
Tom Fowdy : The New Yellow Peril: Sinophobia in the 21st Century
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Criticizing Chinese culture doesn't make you racist, just as criticizing Islam doesn't make you Islamophobic.
Of course not.
So why are you brother's views racist?
The only point you mention are the wet markets.
My condolences.
Well I always start with the Greeks first, because there is so much to criticize. So much so that afterwards I'm too tired to bother criticizing anyone else, even the Albanians:(
Too tired to criticize the Turks? Have some figs.
“ like they were sub-human”
That’s the Darwin/Evolutionism talking there Kevin...
Try to get him to focus instead on that second rate turd world nation’s shitty public health and hygiene policies...
Tell him to leave the Darwin out of it...
"Too tired to criticize the Turks? Have some figs."
Not fatigue, Bob. The U.S. empire forbids any Greek criticism of Turkey. I know it sounds harsh, but dems da empire's rules. Ask Tom, he'll tell you.
But you're living in Canada. Five Eyes citizens are granted an exception.
Any Bulgarians on this blog?
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