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China is a country, not a race.

• platinumrad 5y ago
  And athletes are ordinary citizens and not representatives of the state.
  • dqpb 5y ago
    Aside from the fact that they are literally wearing their country's flag, I tend to agree with you.
• dragonwriter 5y ago
  While etymologically derived from “race”, the word “racist” doesn't observe the artificial (and, actually, grounded in race essentialism which is itself a racist ideology) artificial distinction between target groups being labelled as a “race” vs a “nationality” or “ethnicity”, and applies equally when the basis of bigotry labelled is on any of those grounds.
  • dqpb 5y ago
    > the word “racist” doesn't observe the artificial distinction… Words aren’t observers. It’s you who doesn’t observe the distinction.