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A lot going on in this, but one thing I wanna point out is that Chinese ppl are so dehumanized in the west, that the only way they can ever be seen as fully human is if they speak out against their gov’t, if their stories can be used to support our own hawkish stance toward China
We never hear from Chinese people support or applaud their gov't's efforts at containing the outbreak, only the voices that bolster Westerners' preconceptions of China or that can be cynically used to achieve imperialist political objectives https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-21/china-wuhan-coronavirus-diary-fang-fang
The most famous example of this phenomenon is, of course, this asshole https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/08/china-ill-not-only-coronavirus-communist-party-control
