[eurleif]

It's interesting to consider why criticisms of China in particular are often interpreted as racism. No one makes the same accusation if you criticize America. Part of the explanation may be that China is much more ethnically homogenous: Han Chinese are 92% of the population. It seems that in the name of opposing racism, people are effectively rewarding China for being an ethnostate.

[throw10920]

> It seems that in the name of opposing racism, people are effectively rewarding China for being an ethnostate.

My understanding of criticism of China (in particular - although I have also seen this effect with many other countries) being interpreted as racism is very different than the explanation that you provided, but that's too long to get into. Meanwhile, this is an extremely interesting second-order effect that you pointed out that I hadn't realized before. Thank you for pointing this out!

[selfhoster11]

> It's interesting to consider why criticisms of China in particular are often interpreted as racism.

Astroturfing of the criticism of China = racism view is presumably a part of it. I don't consider investigating bot account networks to be a hobby of mine, so no, I don't think it's "interesting to consider."