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And I was called a racist 25 years ago when I said, “like, our engineering school is, like, crawling with Chinese nationals.” We said like a lot on the 90s.
by pbj1968 3y ago
And I was called a racist 25 years ago when I said, “like, our engineering school is, like, crawling with Chinese nationals.” We said like a lot on the 90s.
- chaostheory 3y agoThat’s because you were being a racist. Most people reserve the word “crawling” for insects and other small pests. Only racists apply it to an entire set of people.
- aurareturn 3y ago[flagged]
- seabrookmx 3y agoIs it the phrasing you think is racist? I don't think pointing out the fact that the student body of a given school is, for example, 20% Chinese, is racist. It's merely a statement of fact.
- aurareturn 3y agoIt's both the phrasing and the content.
- stormfather 3y agoI don't see the content as racist. If a wikipedia article lists the proportion of ethnic Chinese in Malaysia, is that a racist article too?
- blackqueeriroh 3y agoWhat is with the constant need to deploy logical fallacies? Here, you’re deploying false equivalence - what some person said as a first-person out loud based on unknown evidence that compared people to animals of some sort that walk on all fours is completely different than a Wikipedia article that contains sourced objective comparative data and shares it in third-person. And why are these two things different? Context. Nothing exists without context, and analysis of a thing or an action or a situation without considering context is pointless and, frankly, bad analysis. In fact, it’s bad science. Understanding, recognizing, accounting for, and sometimes mitigating context is crucial to being an engineer, a software developer, a rocket scientist, et al. So honestly, I don’t particularly care if it’s racist or not (it is, but not because P necessarily hates Chinese people, but because it reinforces ideas and beliefs that contribute to the systemic oppression of Chinese people in the US), I just think your argument is so flimsy a stiff breeze would tear it apart. Do better.
- stormfather 3y agoMy constant need to deploy logical fallacies? Have you confused me with someone else? I've never talked with you before. And the sanctimonious bit about "bad science" and doing better doesn't make your post any more convincing. It comes across as virtue signaling and its pretty obnoxious.
- switch007 3y agoIMO "crawling" is a rather emotive word choice because it often applies to insects
- robertlagrant 3y agoIt's probably the "crawling with" that did it.
- zo1 3y agoWe're headed for a very protectionist and isolated world because some players couldn't play nice. To me, the only thing holding the floodgates in the west back is the media which is very "rainbows and butterflies" about everything. As soon as they start playing along and seeing this stuff in an alarmist way, they'll turn the narrative and report on it constantly.
- Philpax 3y agoIf you used that wording, I'd have called you racist too.