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To be clear, that guy was deemed racist for promoting stereotypes from a position of power. There are ways of fighting against CCP / Chinese govt. aggression wi

To be clear, that guy was deemed racist for promoting stereotypes from a position of power. There are ways of fighting against CCP / Chinese govt. aggression without resorting to racism

tomytosian 5y ago
sure. he was deemed a racist for saying china is responsible for the virus and was countered by politicians who willingly infected people with covid by pushing them to go to superspread events from chinatown parades to BLM riots.
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- HelloMcFly 5y ago
  Comments like these make it really difficult to not argue on the internet. * He was deemed a racist for many reasons. One of which was using his leadership and influence to stoke anti-Asian sentiment. You're not debating this point, right? Whataboutism is one thing, but worse when paired with denialism. * "Politicians who willingly infected people with covid" - Does it bother you that politicians would downplay the safety of American citizens related to an infectious disease to suit their own political ends? Or is this is a criticism you only levy against your political rivals? Do you really want to compare scorecards on Trump vs. his political rivals on public health? * Ignoring that the vast majority of BLM events were peaceful, which superspreader events are you referring to? They were outside, in the summer, often mobile, with a large share of mask-wearing attendees. I don't see any evidence of any of these events becoming superspreader events.
  - tomytosian 5y ago
    you are the one doing whataboutism right now. I am just arguing that trump was never racist against asian and that he tried to do things and was deemed a racist as a result. I never said he did not downplay covid. everyone did including Sir Fauci and all the democrats.
zepto 5y ago
He did do that, but to be clear he was also called a racist for things like imposing travel restrictions with China early in the coronavirus pandemic. It’s hard to take seriously the claim that accusations of racism are always made carefully and never used as a cheap partisan attack.

To be clear, that guy was deemed racist for promoting stereotypes from a position of power. There are ways of fighting against CCP / Chinese govt. aggression without resorting to racism

tomytosian 5y ago

sure. he was deemed a racist for saying china is responsible for the virus and was countered by politicians who willingly infected people with covid by pushing them to go to superspread events from chinatown parades to BLM riots.

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HelloMcFly 5y ago
Comments like these make it really difficult to not argue on the internet. * He was deemed a racist for many reasons. One of which was using his leadership and influence to stoke anti-Asian sentiment. You're not debating this point, right? Whataboutism is one thing, but worse when paired with denialism. * "Politicians who willingly infected people with covid" - Does it bother you that politicians would downplay the safety of American citizens related to an infectious disease to suit their own political ends? Or is this is a criticism you only levy against your political rivals? Do you really want to compare scorecards on Trump vs. his political rivals on public health? * Ignoring that the vast majority of BLM events were peaceful, which superspreader events are you referring to? They were outside, in the summer, often mobile, with a large share of mask-wearing attendees. I don't see any evidence of any of these events becoming superspreader events.
- tomytosian 5y ago
  you are the one doing whataboutism right now. I am just arguing that trump was never racist against asian and that he tried to do things and was deemed a racist as a result. I never said he did not downplay covid. everyone did including Sir Fauci and all the democrats.

zepto 5y ago

He did do that, but to be clear he was also called a racist for things like imposing travel restrictions with China early in the coronavirus pandemic. It’s hard to take seriously the claim that accusations of racism are always made carefully and never used as a cheap partisan attack.