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"dirty" isn't a racialized work like "chink". It's a word applied to anything we don't like and want to keep out. China already has a similar system also calle

• cardamomo 6y ago
  Please don't use that racial slur. The article I linked above shows ways in which "dirty" was used as a racialized term in the 20th century in the U.S.
  • Funes- 6y ago
    >Please don't use that racial slur. He's using it metalinguistically, for God's sake.
• coliveira 6y ago
  The Chinese cannot be racist against Chinese. But the US can, and it shows.
• thaumasiotes 6y ago
  > Is the Chinese government racist against Chinese? How would we characterize the law under the one-child policy specifying that minorities are free to have two children, but Chinese are limited to one?
• rtkwe 6y ago
  It's not but it does have a long history of being applied to vilify any immigrant group. In the early 20th century the US was forcing all crossers from Mexico to go through a delousing with Zyklon-B because they were 'dirty' and threatened to bring in vague disease. OP wasn't saying clean is exclusively a bigoted phrase against Chinese people, it's more broadly problematic and directed at any group considered undesirable. https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bath-riots https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bath-riots