Idk if it’s an appropriate comparison, but it reminds me of the vitriol America had for Japanese people throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. They just shifted that jingoistic hatred to Russians and Chinese people.
America has always been racist, and it engages in two kinds of racism— domestic racism, which is directed at the obvious groups like Black people and Native Americans, and then there’s the jingoistic racism directed outwards.
That outwards racism has been directed at non-Anglo-Saxon or non-Germanic Europeans prior to the early 20th century, then the Japanese, which culminated in their internment and the use of nuclear weapons against them, then Russians, then Arabs, then the half of Korea that did not submit to their rule, and now Chinese people.
It’s genuinely scary how much russophobia and sinophobia have ramped up in the last 5 years or maybe I just wasn’t as privy to it before hand.
It used to be “haha Chinese people wear triangle two teeth and have funny mustache” to “Chinese people kill”
Well now you’re based so you’ve had a big glow up!
Gotta prep the masses for the impending race war.
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I would argue the latter. It just used to be a teeny tiny bit more subtle.
Fair
Idk if it’s an appropriate comparison, but it reminds me of the vitriol America had for Japanese people throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. They just shifted that jingoistic hatred to Russians and Chinese people.
America has always been racist, and it engages in two kinds of racism— domestic racism, which is directed at the obvious groups like Black people and Native Americans, and then there’s the jingoistic racism directed outwards.
That outwards racism has been directed at non-Anglo-Saxon or non-Germanic Europeans prior to the early 20th century, then the Japanese, which culminated in their internment and the use of nuclear weapons against them, then Russians, then Arabs, then the half of Korea that did not submit to their rule, and now Chinese people.
Yeah I guess I was lucky to be in an environment removed from it in the UK.
Just not privy to it. The west is full of racists.
It do be like that.