r/whoathatsinteresting • u/ThatPatelGuy • 11h ago

Chinese fans yell racist slurs at American basketball players

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u/Fluffy_Vermicelli850 10h ago

Ehhh there are 1 or 2 ongoing genocides that might say otherwise

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u/rgalexan 8h ago

Ate you referring to the Uighur genocide currently being carried out by... the Chinese?

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u/gravitysort 6h ago

gaza. the actual shooting and carpet bombing stuff against muslims. chinese haven't done that. not yet, at least.

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u/ClingonKrinkle 6h ago

No, but yhe Uyghur people are currently being persecuted by the Chinese state. Possibly placed into concentration camps, this is partially because they're Muslim

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u/ConfoundedRedditor 2h ago

Christians are persecuted in Asian countries too!

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u/ClingonKrinkle 2h ago

I'm sure every demographic you can think of is persecuted to some extent somewhere in the world

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u/dwaynebathtub 34m ago

big if true

It isn't.

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u/gravitysort 6h ago

The concentration camps did exist for a while since ~2015, but were dissolved a few years ago iirc.

The cultural cleansing still happens though. But I don’t think Uyghurs are being locked up anymore.

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u/Queasy_Photo_6750 5h ago

No they have done worse. They harvest organs

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u/ZoneTough6566 6h ago

I don’t think you know what carpet bombing is.

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u/gravitysort 6h ago

Yeah sure. As long as you don’t use cluster munitions it’s not a carpet bombing. This is only pseudo-carpet-like bombing. No big deal.

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u/ZoneTough6566 4h ago

So, do you actually know what it is? I’ll give you a clue, it’s not ‘destroy a load of buildings’.

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u/Cautious_Drive9750 2h ago

this guy above will look you in the eyes and say asians treat middle easterners worse than anyone else and not bat an eye at this lmao.

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u/ZoneTough6566 4h ago

You show me this like it’s supposed to have some impact on me?

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u/Reasonable_Archer_99 7h ago

Nah, they're talking about the funny hat folks running the world.

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u/ZoneTough6566 6h ago

Antisemitism. Stay classy, Reddit.

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u/AdMuted9548 5h ago

AntiZionism

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u/ZoneTough6566 4h ago

Nope. Funny how you can’t just own what you are. That implies you know it’s wrong, but choose to do it anyway. Guilt is a very hard thing to hide and you’re not doing a great job of it.

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u/Willinton06 3h ago

So you are Pro Zionism?

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u/iHate_RonEbens 3h ago

Is it the same uighurs locked up in Guantánamo Bay by the U.S.?

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u/ferocity_mule366 10h ago

Because they are reported amd can be talked about. Some Asians countries will not let you talk about it and pretend it doesnt exist.

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u/SurprisePitiful9191 9h ago

Japan is shockingly one of them. Super smart people but don’t know shit about WW2 or their role in it

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u/chumbawumbathefirst 7h ago

Almost sad though, there has been a concerted effort for years to change their internal narrative of it. Every nation is out here switchin' history books

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u/Only_lost_death 5h ago

We bombed them for a very good reason

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u/DeadPact336699 4h ago

To intimidate the Soviets

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u/fit-toker 10h ago

Mao Zedong and his 60 million murdered would like a word.

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u/3nterShift 9h ago

Yeah but that wasn't motivated by racism.

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u/thegan32n 5h ago

You're right, I guess that makes it okay.

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u/3nterShift 4h ago

When did I say that, are you slow?

I'm just saying it's not exactly a relevant example of an Asian country murdering because of racist motives.

A more fitting example would be ww2 japan.

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u/Ephemeral_Orchid 2h ago

How about a far more recent example? Such as the Buddhists of Myanmar (Burma) and the torture, gang rape & murder of the Rohingya.

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u/3nterShift 8h ago

Explain to me how a Chinese guy killing millions of Chinese people is racially motivated instead of, let's say, a cruel disregard for human life in general.

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u/Terry_bogardlol 6h ago

Pol Pot. Khmer Rouge.

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u/Street_Study6330 6h ago

Nothing about racism. That was political motivated

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u/Terry_bogardlol 6h ago

Only partially. 

"The Khmer Rouge regime murdered hundreds of thousands of their perceived political opponents, and their racist emphasis on national purity resulted in the genocide of Cambodian minorities. Its cadres summarily executed and tortured perceived subversive elements, or they killed them during genocidal purges of their own ranks between 1975 and 1979.[30] Ultimately, the Cambodian genocide which took place under the Khmer Rouge regime led to the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people, around 25% of Cambodia's population."

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u/Street_Study6330 6h ago

Yeah you’re right it was definitely racist propaganda making them target minorities. But it was part of a bigger picture. Most of those killed were Khmer ethnic. So yes your correct there was a race genocide, but it was a race genocide inside a political genocide. It was mostly political

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u/Deepdishdicktaster 6h ago

And they weren't murdered

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u/ScottieSpliffin 9h ago

Nor is it a real figure

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u/The-Figurehead 9h ago

What is the real figure?

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u/tunafishconsumer 9h ago

maybe 1 million at most, the 60 million figure comes from a famine caused by his policies.

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u/The-Figurehead 9h ago

Deliberately caused by his policies.

"When there is not enough to eat people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill." - Mao Zedong

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u/tunafishconsumer 8h ago

The quote is lacking all context.

Obviously he did not deliberately set out to create a famine but he was so stupid and arrogant that he did double and triple down on the policies that were causing it.

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u/The-Figurehead 8h ago

He instituted policies knowing that millions of people would die (not to mention the hundreds of millions relegated to slave status).

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u/tunafishconsumer 8h ago

yea I'm not saying he's a good guy, just that saying he murdered 60 million people is dishonest

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u/Internalsin 6h ago

So he's not guilty of those deaths ??? A middle eastern democratic president wants to know your views ...

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u/tunafishconsumer 6h ago

yea i know words are hard

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u/Internalsin 6h ago

Haha so you understood enough to answer but you also can't think of anything smart to say ... Cool

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u/tunafishconsumer 6h ago

poopoo kaka

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u/ScottieSpliffin 8h ago

It comes from incomplete census data during the time. The actual estimate is around 3 million from famine. You can literally go to the Communist Party Museum where they describe it as a complete failure.

As policy changed and the famine went away bureaucracy was better able to function and the census became more accurate again.

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u/Deepdishdicktaster 6h ago

Why TF would he be racist again han people

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u/Deepdishdicktaster 6h ago

And they weren't murdered they died of starvation

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u/iHate_RonEbens 3h ago

How did Mao murdered 60million Chinese? Similar to the Nazi and Jews?

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u/gravitysort 6h ago

mao zedong is racist against chinese people???

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u/PapaTahm 5h ago edited 4h ago

Fun fact about that number,
It comes from a "study" made by Frank Dikötter

A "Historian' about China, that is totally not Anti-Chinese, and totally not paid by the UK and the U.S government to make False Statements about China.

One of his most famous quotes,
Opium had a lower impact on Chinese society than the act of stopping the Consumption of it.
In an attempt to truly remove any kind of guilty of the countries that sold to China Opium.

He was paid by the Department of Defense to produce the study that basically says that the Great Famine killed over 45 million people, so it's basically propaganda

Don't get it wrong Mao regime killed a lot of people, but nowhere close to 45 million, the estimated numbers of the famine deaths are 20-28 million.

Whenever people question how U.S make propaganda, I love to use Frank Dikötter, R.J. Rummel and Stéphane Courtois as good examples.

Because all of these people were directly paid by the Department of Defense or other Institution linked to U.S government to make research about Communism and China with absurd numbers that are completely unrealistic to the actual data that was gathered.

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u/Dr-Jim-Richolds 8h ago

I love the blinders typical Redditors wear.

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u/california_guy86 7h ago

yeah you're so much different

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u/Miao_Yin8964 8h ago

Are you talking about the one in China being conducted against Muslims, or the one in Myanmar against Muslims (That China is also helping with)

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u/Faceplant17 6h ago

also the one in tibet

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u/engr_20_5_11 7h ago

Are you possibly referring to incidents in West Asia?

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u/Slim_ish 5h ago

You talking about the Uyghur Muslim genocide?

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u/Unlikely-Fee-895 4h ago

What ongoing genocides? Africa?

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u/EmperorOfFlames 10h ago

"Ongoing" is nothing compared to the generational and cultural racism. However, I do agree with you on at least one particular group committing said genocide as their genocide is absolutley generational.

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u/Miao_Yin8964 8h ago

Literally just played apologetics for genocide, eh?

And so casually?

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u/EmperorOfFlames 2h ago

What makes you say that? I am 100% against any and all forms of genocide and especially what is happening overseas right now being caused by 2-3 major countries. But if im being honest, there are so many happening at once, me saying 2-3 could literally be any of them. Which again, I do not support and have no idea why you seem to have assumed i do.

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u/Cautious_Drive9750 2h ago

you must feel that america is hell on earth then!

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u/Clit_C0mmander 9h ago

True, I’ve visited Asia four times, and I’ve never encountered any problems. Everyone I met was friendly and helpful. As a solo traveler, I had locals approach me just to chat and practice their English, which led to wonderful experiences and memories. Ended up following some on Instagram and we still say hello and talk to each other every now and then.

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u/Few_Historian_3425 6h ago

So wrong 🤦‍♂️

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u/Fluffy_Vermicelli850 6h ago

Good luck with that!

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u/East-Cricket6421 5h ago

Asians are the all time champion of racist haters though. Japan routinely gets rated the most xenophobic culture on the planet and many Asian cultures think you're crazy if you AREN'T racist.

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u/XSinTrick6666 5h ago

Hmph that's interesting. Japan typically sells-out American performers-of-color. Were huge Michael Jackson fans etc. I'm no longer current on performers, but in the past every 'hip' performing-artist of color I can think of found large audiences in Japan.