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William Schwartz's avatar

I think it's a little silly that you're comparing Israel's actively engaging in a violent genocide as being at all comparable to anything the Chinese government is currently doing. Particularly when your examples of people being discriminated against because of disingenuous Sinophobia accusations are ones who actually have employers in China. If Israel was only discriminating against journalists who made anti-Zionist statements in Israel itself, that would be bad, but it would hardly qualify as an international agenda attempting to prevent anyone in the world from criticizing the state of Israel for any reason.

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Brother Mitya's avatar

Danny Wardle,

Even Bob Avakian has better insights than you. You, who sit on the side of American imperialism! You, who do not speak up against anti-Chinese racism and point fingers at Beijing!

In Australia, "Labor" white settlers used Sinophobia to justify militarism during World War One and Two, to lay groundwork for the White Australia Policy, as well as to develop ethno-nationalist narratives. The very same narratives that went hand-in-hand with the Stolen Generation and genocide of Indigenous peoples!

Australian nationalists, fond of this imperialist satellite project, shall inevitably blow the war horn for America and wish to wage a genocidal war against China!

"Anti-Semitism" is a buzzword to throw shade at any anti-imperialist in her bloody struggle against finance capitalism and imperialism.

NOTE: Taiwan is the Kuomintang fortress of murderous dictator, Chiang Kai-Shek.

Revolutionary regards,

Brother Mitya.

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Aidan Alexander's avatar

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

I’m aware of a historical and present day ideology that is fixated on Jewish people being bad/evil/lesser. I’m not aware of such an ideology for Chinese people?

I don’t think an increase in hostility towards Chinese ex-pats when hostilities with China are high proves such an ideology exists anymore than it does with the Germans in WW1/2, the Russians in the Cold War / today, the Japanese in WW2 etc.

What am I missing? I know you said you’re not saying antisemitism and Sinophobia are the same, but aside from the parallels between how hostilities towards China and Israel play out, I don’t see many similarities

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Danny Wardle's avatar

I really do think there's a similar ideology re: East Asian people, especially Chinese people, where they're seen as conniving, threateningly hypercompetent, having a strong in-group preference etc. Maybe it's more of a thing in Australia since the topic of China invading and being assisted by the diaspora comes up a lot here.

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