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katherine@lkharms.com's avatar

You are absolutely right! The first time I heard someone cry "racism" because someone else criticized China, I felt very disturbed. Many words have been redefined lately, but here was a redefinition of a term that had already been redefined multiple times. All the other new definitions enter the vocabulary as weapons of cultural change, and become political, because politics is the way we enact cultural change against the wishes of the culture.

However, to call criticism of China's political/economic warfare on the US "racism" adds a new twist to an old practice. This is a not-so-subtle statement that the Chinese Communist Party is a person who deserves to be treated with respect. Since the most consistent trait of the Chinese Communist Party is disregard for the fundamental value of the human being, a strategy of ascribing basic humanity to the CCP is the ultimate madness. To do so demands that what does not exist must be treated as an existence that requires not merely respect but deference. This new "Emperor's New Clothes" story is neither entertaining nor educational. This story is dangerous.

The political entity that is China has never had the best interests of the USA or any other country at heart. The political entity that is the Chinese Communist Party is the ultimate empire builder, and all nations should deal with it as an enemy, no matter how peaceful it may appear to foreign eyes. The people of the USA must never treat any human being as subhuman, the attitude at the core of racism, but the people and the government of the USA must always recognize the Chinese Communist Party as a dangerous and dishonorable opponent.

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Rusty's avatar

Love it!!

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