It's not a new word.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/shanghai...

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shanghaied

That's not an argument for continuing to use a word.

It is if the argument to stop using it is some irrelevant point about some other location-based word that was used negatively only recently.

Something got shanghaied isn't a pejorative in the way that Trump acolytes use "China virus".

> irrelevant point about some other location-based word that was used negatively only recently.

Are you unaware of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 -- which is exactly around the time that this term was popular and in common use?

The correlation is coincidental. It has nothing to do with that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing

I don't believe this comment is made in good faith, there is nothing wrong with the "right" and it's senselessly adding fuel to our political division.

There is something deeply wrong with the authoritarian politics of the right and its casual use of racism to further political control.

> it's senselessly adding fuel to our political division.

This comment, whether you realize it or not, is coming from a place of extreme social privilege.

Remember that for the majority of people, politics is not a game. It is serious. People lose their rights to live the life they want all the time. Sometimes those politics turn violent and people lose everything.