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I'm not sure if that was necessarily racism though. I think because China is now seen more and more as an enemy and the professor was born in China, maybe that'

I'm not sure if that was necessarily racism though. I think because China is now seen more and more as an enemy and the professor was born in China, maybe that's why. Not excusing the the FBI, just questioning whether racism was at play. What if it had been a white Russian scientist? Would it have been different?

Apocryphon 11y ago
Does that happen to Russian scientists in America often, though? Because there is precedence for baseless accusations against professors from China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen_Ho_Lee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen_Ho_Lee Though to be fair, there is also precedence of actual cases of espionage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_spy_cases_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_spy_cases_in_t...
- kelukelugames 11y ago
  Though to be fair, there is also precedence of actual cases of espionage This is literally the definition of racial profiling.