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Skye_ZTZ_113

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Can we put an end to the 'monkey' and other dehumanising comments? It will only encourage the 'othering' of the Indians, Americans and West. While their predecessors treated Chinese etc. races like that in the past (and some still are today) doesn't mean we have to go along with the exhausting nonsense. They are still people one way or another. Indoctrinated or otherwise. People here are usually highly educated so presumably we can overcome this.
 
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Skye_ZTZ_113 said:
Can we put an end to the 'monkey' and other dehumanising comments? It will only encourage the 'othering' of the Americans and West. While their predecessors treated Chinese etc. races like that in the past (and some still are today) doesn't mean we have to go along with the exhausting nonsense. They are still people one way or another. Indoctrinated or otherwise. People here are usually highly educated so presumably we can overcome this.
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Do you treat an attacking hyena the same way you treat an attacking golden retriever puppy?When someone attacks you over and over again, do you just take it since it is “uncivilized” to fight back? Until they stop, I don’t see the need for us to stop.
 
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Bellum_Romanum said:
It's part of the $300 MILLION anti-China media push by the American monkeys trying to gin up whatever China threat they can cook up. If Pres.Xi Jinping manage to trip some old lady on one of his visits to rural China the western media led by the U.S. would immediately issue a breaking news alert showing the supposed indifference and cruelty of the Chinese Dictator. If a Chinese fishermen happened to fish near or on a disputed water called the South China Sea the howling hyenas would ring the alarm bells of an impending Chinese invasion or proof of Chinese aggressive bullying of it's neighbors.

All of us here and all of China must be more than prepared to receive this kind of hyper attention from here on out. Any negative news or event that will happen in China even by a single individual will be interpreted or represent the collective and somehow will end up also being the fault of the CPC. The U.S. is trying to deligitimize not only the Chinese government but also the people of China as a whole because they know that by overwhelming majority, the Chinese people approve the current job performance of their government. So in the eyes of the U.S. and her vassals all of China might as well suffer.
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All this seems to do is speak volumes about how weak the leaderships of the west has finally become and ultimately how much they actually hate to confront and solve the problems harming the people or rather, themselves since it seems that these people have no empathy to speak of.

But make no mistake, in there haste to take the easy way and basically act like villains in an American Hollywood film (I wonder if they even realize the irony), they are starting to make more and more mistakes that are irreversible (just look at that sham of a G7 and the fact they cannot even try and act a tiny bit nice to have even a 1% chance to woo Russia to there side but no, they try to basically sanction Russia along with trying to frame them for yet another crime that they have never provided evidence for. Something is going to give soon and all that hatred and ill will that has been thrown at Russia, China and Iran and basically any nation that doesn't want to bend to the will of the west is ultimately going to have all of that thrown back at them and then some.
 
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windsclouds2030 said:
US 'othering' of Chinese could be prelude to Taiwan conflict

By FRANZ GAYL - 27 May 2021

Merriam Webster dictionary defines the word "othering" as an act wherein a race or culture is made to appear as "a large, uniform mass, rather than a diverse group of individuals… treating people from another group as less human than one's own group." Historically, "othering" has served as a conditioning mechanism to dehumanize US adversaries, preparing normally empathetic men and women to act with less discrimination and greater brutality in war.

During WWII, US othering of the Japanese involved weaponizing disinformation and propagating racist stereotypes. It was considered as effective at setting the necessary psychological conditions for the controversial internment of Japanese Americans, firebombing of Tokyo, and dropping of atomic bombs on Japanese cities merely to deter the Soviet Union. Conceivably, left unmodified, a soldier's empathy for non-combatant human beings otherwise could have placed those ruthless American operations and their objectives at risk.

Othering of the Chinese people is evident in recent US news media in the form of a mix of unverified rumors, disinformation, and selective exclusion of contradictory facts. It has been reported that China-averse special interests have even paid US journalists to publish stories biased against China's policies, to include encouraging a US-China confrontation. Meanwhile, the island of Taiwan's secession champions in the US Congress have nurtured the absurd public perception that the US-emulating people aboard the island of Taiwan are "non-Chinese" in ethnic identity.

The apparent sophistication and coordination of Chinese othering are indications that some in the US are working to desensitize Americans to the certain horrors of a war with China over Taiwan. Its effects are already being witnessed in American society. Despite a presidential-level denouncement, racially motivated assaults on Chinese and Asians generally are sharply increasing. The dehumanization of our future foe is in full swing to the delight of China-averse special interests.

Some argue that a US war with China over Taiwan would be a just war, claiming the "non-Chinese" island citizenry deserves our protection, not just ideological support. Others will go further and assert that the US nuclear umbrella needs to be extended to encompass the island. They try to make the desperate case that the island of Taiwan is the last bastion of American values in Southeast Asia, and the final barricade that contains China.

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The author, Franz Gayl, is a retired Marine Corps infantry officer who now serves as a US civil servant in the Pentagon. Opinions are of the author and do not represent the US government.
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If the current situation evolves into an arms race Taiwan is getting reunified as soon as possible. Having a coast to the ocean is a huge military asset. And it is not like the US would prevent it if China dropped its low military spending policy. The ability of the US to do that is a huge question even now.
 
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TheDiplomat realised their previous article was too much of a National-Interest level so they are now back to trying to convince us that it is an "impartial/unbiased" magazine

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Thanks for the link.

Btw, since the load in this thread is very high, it's really not easy to keep track among the so many posts... :p :D

So a request as well as a suggestion, perhaps next time it's better to repost or requote briefly the said previous article link/info if it's not too hard the task, so later or latecomer reader may still keep track what's the previous item meant :) ha ha ha

This suggestion applies to all posters whereas relevant... merely due to the sheer volume of the posts here :) LMAO
 
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