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I don't see the content as racist. If a wikipedia article lists the proportion of ethnic Chinese in Malaysia, is that a racist article too?


What is with the constant need to deploy logical fallacies? Here, you’re deploying false equivalence - what some person said as a first-person out loud based on unknown evidence that compared people to animals of some sort that walk on all fours is completely different than a Wikipedia article that contains sourced objective comparative data and shares it in third-person. And why are these two things different?

Context.

Nothing exists without context, and analysis of a thing or an action or a situation without considering context is pointless and, frankly, bad analysis. In fact, it’s bad science. Understanding, recognizing, accounting for, and sometimes mitigating context is crucial to being an engineer, a software developer, a rocket scientist, et al.

So honestly, I don’t particularly care if it’s racist or not (it is, but not because P necessarily hates Chinese people, but because it reinforces ideas and beliefs that contribute to the systemic oppression of Chinese people in the US), I just think your argument is so flimsy a stiff breeze would tear it apart.

Do better.


My constant need to deploy logical fallacies? Have you confused me with someone else? I've never talked with you before. And the sanctimonious bit about "bad science" and doing better doesn't make your post any more convincing. It comes across as virtue signaling and its pretty obnoxious.




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