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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by joey486DX4 on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:59AM (#50423925)
>Is the "yellow peril", only Chinese or does it refer to all asians?

I mean, Shou Zi Chew was grilled by Congress for his "links" to the Chinese Communist Party, and made to state that Tiananmen Square 1989 was a massacre despite being born, raised in Singapore, and served the Singapore military.

Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by thaumasiotes on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:47AM (#50424298)
A guy from a Chinese country with an obviously Chinese name isn't the greatest exemplar of the idea that "it's not just the Chinese".

The concept seems to have been mostly focused on the Chinese, but that in turn seems to have been largely because they outnumber everybody else.

You can read an essay criticizing the concept at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26350/pg26350-images.ht...

(It's in French, written by a Russian in 1897.)

Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by victorhooi on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:04AM (#50427412)
I think many here are conflating quite a few different things here.

Firstly, ethnicity is not the same as nationality.

Secondly, the CCP and China are two separate things. And then there's your definition of China, but I'm not going there. RoC and all...

Thirdly, Singapore is actually a former British colony, the native people are Malays, and there's four official languages (English, Chinese/Mandarin, Tamil and Malay). Now yes, there's a large erhnic Chinese diaspora in Singapore, but arguing that being Singaporean makes you a CCP spy would be a bit of a reach.

And geopolitical naivety aside, I find it mildly perturbing that somebody might assume that I'm a red under the bed, just because I have black hair, an olive complexion and am lactose intolerant.

Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by sysguest on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:30AM (#50424701)
idk so Tiananmen Square 1989 isn't a massacre?

if I was given this much easy task on congress hearing, I'd just say it with megaphone and take the lead from there

why is it difficult to say some fact?

is it difficult for you to say so?

Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by cousin_it on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:57AM (#50424966)
People shouldn't be forced to say things.

Freedom of speech is valuable and fragile. It's always in danger of being eroded by authoritarians.

"Why do you refuse to say this true thing? Are you evil?"

"Why do you insist on saying this false thing? Are you evil?"

Because you're not the boss and don't get to tell people what to say or not say.

Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by joey486DX4 on Monday November 09, 2026 @10:19AM (#50426849)
Because he isn't from China. It's racial stereotyping that everyone that looks a certain way is a threat to America. It's dangerous especially when violent attacks on Asians in the United States have skyrocketed as a result of this kind of discourse.

Change the race and ethnicity and tell me that it's okay.

Why can't you admit that this is yellow peril?