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by LMYahooTFY 2647 days ago
What's your point?

I'm not certain of my inferences from your comment, but you seem to be missing the context of what he's saying.

He's leading into that with the underlying (and very valid IMO) assumptions that economic trends can yield predictive power for cultural outcomes, and that China (and thus Chinese people to the more homogeneous populations of the US) will be heavily demonized due to the ongoing economic show down between China and the US.

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It's an fairly divisive comment to accuse some group of people of the futurecrime of murdering your own people in churches. That's a serious accusation of something that hasn't happened yet.

I don't remember anyone blaming "Asians" for Virginia Tech, and rightfully so.

His general point is that economic inequality leads to social distress leads to violence, often targeting scapegoated groups, such as those belonging to demographics shared by rival foreign powers. Is that so objectionable?