Why Are We Seeing So Much Asian Hate?

Great video! China being fair with the loans is wishful thinking at best however

That was a great video! It's a tough topic to handle, as many of the people who consider themselves left are so deep in the sauce on western propaganda that they have a tough time seeing through their biases. I think the way you framed western interests in "human rights" in the region is exactly right. Knocking it out of the park!

Man I couldn't have said that better. Also, if we are calling out Propaganda, this has notes of anti-America propaganda. However, as an asian-american, I appreciated the analysis on a long history of Asian discrimination.

Good video, but did you forget that China invaded Tibet in 1949 and is there to stay. China has built a railroad there and other infrastructure there, but it’s also filling Tibet with Han Chinese and supporting Chinese culture and discouraging Tibetan culture. China is also commiting de facto genocide among Uyghurs. Yes, some Uyghurs have attacked Chinese, but the solution seems to be to wipe out Uyghurs’ culture and language. China has also demonstrated over and over again that it has no interest in freedom, democracy and human rights. Chinese investments are also a debt trap. Debt trap has been used during history over and over again. The World Bank and IMF are famous for that. All countries do what is in their best interest and all the people, who decide what’s in their coynry’s best interest, do so thinking what’s in their own best interest. The trick is make sure they know that pissing off most people in their country is NOT in their best interest. Freedom of speech and democracy seems to be the best way to achieve this.

Mikko Rongas

Great video, although I would say, there is absolutely no need to defend Chinese politics to argue that racist hate crimes against Asians are horrific. Nor is it necessary to downplay Chinese authoritarianism to highlight that US policy is callous and hypocritical. Both countries can have different kinds of terrible systems at the same time

Frederic

In Germany, many virologists have examined the virus and have found that it cannot come from a laboratory because it is structurally impossible to produce artificially.

Antony

Some comments: 2:05 "...Some go as far as to say that, without evidence, that the coronavirus was made in a Chinese lab." Sure, we don't have definitive proof. There is no way we would ever get definitive proof for something like this. China has closed press. Everything that comes out of China is government approved. However, what we do have is reason to believe it was a man made disease due to a number of situations we are aware, like WHO's lagged response time in warning the world of it, allowing it to spread everywhere, China's grip on WHO that may have been responsible for the lagged delay, how China hindered WHO from investigating the origins of the virus, or that Chinese woman that escaped China, came to the USA and claimed she worked on (or worked with scientists who worked on) manufacturing the virus. Could she have been an American setup to defame China and spread propaganda? Sure. Could the WHO just have made a mistake? Sure. Could media have lied about the hindered investigations from WHO? Sure. But given these examples, among others out there on the web, I find it disingenuous to say 'we have no evidence to claim it was made in a Chinese lab'. Given all we know, it is one of the most likely possibilities. 11:45 'China spends less and has a smaller army than USA. Not a threat, yet claimed as one.' China has nukes and the second(?) largest army in the world as insurance. They've lost many wars in the past and would never go that route again because it is not their strong suit. Traditional war is USA's strength. China is instead going a different route of domination, and they are shaping up to win. See Jake Tran's video for details, its where I'm getting my understanding from ("China’s Master Plan for World Domination" https://youtu.be/RU-Y9SnUEQE). They are not a military threat, but they are a threat in every other factor. I know USA is bad. We all know USA is bad. Most world leaders are bad. Difference is, you have a platform to say they are bad and you aren't punished for it (well... not yet. I think USA is moving toward this direction). In current day China, you wouldn't even have the freedom to make these criticisms. The worry is that stranglehold on free thoughts, but on the world. (yes, USA is doing this too, but not as hard as China... yet). I get you wanna drive the point home that 'USA bad' (and, they are, horrifying, in fact, especially from a foreign perspective), but let's not sugar coat information for the effect. That being said, I still generally agree with all your sentiments: America wants to defame China, is racist and is horrible to the world at large, including its own citizens. There isn't any self-defense reason for Chinese, or Asian, discrimination. Side note: this is why when talk-show/podcast people (maybe not mainstream news media) talk about criticizing China, they make it a point to target the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), rather than the Chinese people. Good video.

Jonathan Miller

Amazing video!

ILL State Fishing

Thank you for making this video. The amount of casual anti-China comments I hear talking to people in normal conversation these days is pretty staggering. And they’re coming from liberals. Have you noticed that in all press coverage of China, every positive thing has some secret, evil, ulterior motive? China is investing in high-speed rail in its western provinces? It’s part of the Xinjiang genocide. China is providing vaccines to other countries? It’s vaccine diplomacy. China is investing in other nation’s infrastructure via the BRI? It’s debt trap diplomacy or ‘Chinese imperialism’. If anyone brings up the fact that the US and its allies also engage in human rights violations, bomb countries, destabilize the world, and apply punitive sanctions that starve people, the party line seems to be the invented term “whattaboutism”. If any Chinese person living in the US tries to defend their country, they’re branded as a CCP shill, and so the only option is to either shut up and assimilate into the dominant American culture or denounce China as well. Westerners and especially Americans seem incapable of grasping the fact that Chinese living standards have massively improved in the last 30 years, and that for this reason many Chinese people support their government. The same can’t be said of the US, obviously, as wages for the bottom have been flat for decades.

Thank you. A great video that properly contextualizes America's use of anti-Asian racism for goals both foreign and domestic. The rebuttles of the various anti-China talking points were informative and powerful. Maybe you could make a larger video incorporating these and other examples of America's historic and systemic use of racism?

Scavvon

It will be interesting to see your take. I was wondering, as an European, is there indeed a sudden surge, or was it there all the time but now for some reason draws more attention.

Dragi Raos