This is the heckler's veto, and entirely unsustainable. Someone will always be there to argue your criticism is invalid because the soil you're standing on is

This is the heckler's veto, and entirely unsustainable. Someone will always be there to argue your criticism is invalid because the soil you're standing on is soaked in blood, racism, whatever. It would paralyze you to accept any criticism at the cost of having no voice (because you can never prove you aren't the embodiment of said criticism - your standard). We lack a neutral and omniscient arbiter to make the decision that you are or aren't, on balance and otherwise, a bastard or a descendent of bastards. It's still important to be a critic of the/a state. The fact that most nations on the planet are strongly associated with an ethnicity makes the field a little more tricky, but not that much. Part of success here is convincing a vocal segment of liberal society to focus on actual content of criticism and stop second-guessing/worrying about what other dumber elements of society might think if criticism were viewed the wrong way. That's such a tenuous conditional lever to pull on to justify censorship. If you're even mildly "in" the Asian community in the US, you know that "Asian Hate" is sadly not a new phenomenon, just one that has received more attention and reporting lately (and arguably quickly set aside once current events failed to substantiate a white supremist angle that could be milked); it's been a tragic staple of the Asian experience for a long, long time. There are many valid reasons for the Chinese to dismiss criticism (starting with "mind your own business as we develop" to moral equivalency arguments to reparations arguments - I've heard many of them). We also don't have to treat that dismissal as a valid reason to ignore inhumanity. It may even be acceptable to acknowledge grey areas and nuance, but even that doesn't close the door to good faith criticism about castration, sex-trafficking, enabling DPRK, destabilizing territorial grabs, etc.