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Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment by mcguire on Friday December 17, 2021 @07:34PM (#29600140)
Discussing the Chinese origin of COVID got branded because racists were using it as an excuse to attack Asians in America, including those who weren't of Chinese descent or whose families had immigrated many decades ago.

Yes, if you accuse the waitress at a Chinese restaurant of being responsible for COVID, you are racist.

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Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment by trhway on Friday December 17, 2021 @07:53PM (#29600286)
911 also was used as pretext to attack Muslims/MidEasterners in America, yet discussing Afghanistan/Saudi/Al-Qaeda/Islamic extremism origins of the attack didn't get branded as racist.

The firm association in the public mind between the attacks and origins, as your comment for example demonstrates, is the part of that great PR success by China.

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Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment by mcguire on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:07PM (#29600377)
Your memory of 2001-2007 or so is very different from mine. I recall the term "raghead", attacks, and the lovely picture of fully armed men in body armor "protesting" a mosque in Dallas. And yes, that was racist.
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