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As I said, I don't see any racism here. Being suspicious towards people of Chinese origin, culture, language, looks etc. is clearly racist. Being suspicious to
by oytis 7y ago
As I said, I don't see any racism here. Being suspicious towards people of Chinese origin, culture, language, looks etc. is clearly racist. Being suspicious to the citizens of People's Republic of China is only political.
- mytailorisrich 7y ago> Being suspicious to the citizens of People's Republic of China Being negative about people simply based on their nationality is racist.
- droidist2 7y agoWhen people insult Americans are they being racist?
- blacksmith_tb 7y agoShouldn't that be "nationalist" or "jingoist"? Chinese citizens aren't all one race (though the official Party line seems to suggest they should be, and policies like they're unleashing in Xinjiang and Tibet seem to be trying to achieve that by force).
- mytailorisrich 7y agoIt's racist. Those attempts at denying that because a country or a people are not "a race" is ludicrous. If I say that I don't like Mexicans that's racist, for example. If I try to deny it because that's not "a race" I will only ridiculise myself even more.
- blacksmith_tb 7y agoSure, I understand what you're saying (and racism and jingoism are pretty hard to separate in practice). Clearly most private citizens anywhere in the world (outside of China...) don't have much to worry about using Huawei hardware, and if these laptops run Deepin they could easily have any other distro installed instead, if people are worried about the software.
- oytis 7y agoSo do you want to say that when some countries impose sanctions on, say, Iran, it's racist because there are nice people in Iran, and sanctions affect them as well? Or it is not racists when governments do it, but is racists when individuals/companies do it?
- lonelappde 7y agoWhere someone was born is not a political choice. Maybe you meant members of the Chinese Community Part, not citizens of the PRC?
- oytis 7y agoI didn't say it's _fair_, I just said it's not racist. It's probably too much to put ordinary people under suspicion right away, but for for legal bodies it's totally reasonable if you ask me. To assume that you can run business in an authoritarian country and be totally independent from the government is plainly naive. Even if you are not formally a member of the ruling party.