You're replying to someone who understands and admits his internet is monitored so he has to push pro China narratives like he is here.
He thinks saying Covid originated in the Wuhan lab is racist.
That's got fuck all to do with the fact that there is a clear, but unspoken, hierarchy of racism that (in the UK at least) goes something like this:
- It's really
really bad to be racist to black people, you can't do it and you can't even mention the slur, you have to call it "the n-word"
- It's bad to be racist to Asian (as in - South Asian/Indian subcontinent) folk, but there are still a load of people who talk about "going to the paki shop" in company they feel comfortable with, and with the Islamophobia that the papers have stoked over the last decade and a bit, people still feel emboldened to express their racist views, whether that be blatant or insidious
- Bottom of the major categories are the East Asians, who until recently mostly suffered the casual or ignorant racism, rather than the vitriolic attacks some others might
- Then there's the rest - gypsies, travellers etc
A clear manifestation of this can be seen in popular culture. Clarkson lost his job for muttering something under his breath that couldn't even be made out, but the mere suggestion of "the n-word" was enough to finish him at the BBC. Meanwhile on prime time BBC Radio 1, Edith Bowman read out a tweet about the weather saying "It's a bit Pearl Harbour out there - as in, there's a nasty nip in the air" - and barely got a wrap on the knuckles.
Farage, again on prime time radio, defended the UKIP Councillor's use of Chinky using what can only be described as 'the Partridge defence' by going "Well it's a type of food, isn't it?" despite the fact that the context it was used in was "that Chinky bird"
Now, there's two sides to this coin. Yes, racism against East Asians is seen as far more innocuous and less concerning, but on the other hand it generally *is* less aggro and extreme. Despite the fact that all of the racist tropes employed against dirty foreigners - "coming over here, not learning the language, sticking to themselves, making no attempts to integrate and being dirty fucking non-taxpaying illegals!" - can easily be applied to plenty of the Chinese, somehow (recent events notwithstanding) they've got off relatively lightly when it comes to the aggressive racism, and experienced much more of the casual variety.
Why this is, who really knows? Perhaps the lighter skin makes them seem less 'other'; perhaps the general perception is that they are less obtrusive, hard-working, keep their heads down and don't make a fuss like those other uppity 'darkies'; maybe it's sheer numbers - there are fewer of them, so they don't stand out as much; or perhaps it really is just because everyone like sweet and sour balls and crispy duck.
Who the fuck knows? But the hierarchy of racism is real