In tech, there's a lot of anti-Chinese sentiment (Have you seen John Gruber's posts on the topic?) without the acknowledgement that without China, none of the devices we have here would be built. Without the global South for that matter. It's an inherently xenophobic (and nationalistic) stance that encourages states to organize themselves to INCREASE the chances of AAPI communities being harmed by disease (especially when the governments have been weakened by the states under which corporations are chartered - every company works indirectly as a branch of economic military).
I know there's still a big contingent of people who believe that, at its core, the United States can be a force for good.
And I want to remind you that it's never been the case for those who don't fit the image or ideology of the core of America: colonial Europeanized identities (or an alliance to it), wealth (by means of forced capital extraction) and imperial moves (like having thousands of bases around the world and being the largest contributor to child slavery around the globe).
This is the type of shit that a state government aligned to those values and its acolytes sign off on.
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There's nothing to be gained (today) by the media (and Democrats) admitting how much they've enabled right-wing behavior (it's profitable and great for talking-and-not-doing-anything)
That said, this is a one (1) good step towards something. Democrats need to run with this and start using it to push back HARD on any associated to Trump (immigration policy, labor, etc) and make some actual change for folks.
The word "pseduoscientific" isn't as bad as it sounds if you decenter science as a place of truth (or if you also understand science to be a mutable and adapting means of discovery).
Something incapable with the scientific method isn't "false" or "not true".
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