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Oh, if it's not lemmy.ca and their daily quota of racism...
Hang on, it's racist to call out totalitarian dictatorships that put muslims in concentration camps and have secret police in other countries to enforce their draconian laws abroad on other sovereign state's soil?
Fuck that, the chinese government is sketchy as hell, and so are you for trying to downplay the distrust said government has earned quite well as "racism." Do you work directly for them or is it more of a 3rd party contractor situation?
To play devil's advocate, people often justify their biases with seemingly more reasonable stuff. "only good people should be trusted to breed" is eugenics even if someone made a funny movie about it.
Very true, but we can't just not criticise a government because the people involved checks notes "aren't white." What would make them above criticism? In my view the only possible answer is because (and it's usually applied to children or the mentally disabled,) "they don't understand what they're doing." In my personal opinion "Nonwhite people" are just as capable as "white people" of knowing what they're doing, as they are not by default children or mentally disabled (though they do also have both categories, and those categories should get a little more leeway). They know spying is wrong whether they're "chinese" or "american."