Comment on Elon Musk and Wikipedia are feuding

• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You know you can say “Chinese troll” without hating anybody, yes?

  As in “the person is a troll” and “the person is Chinese”. No hate anywhere: it’s just two facts that happen to go together quite well because China is kind of notorious for being the place where you can find internet trolls for hire for cheap.

  You need to stop thinking everything in terms of how racist it sounds.

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  • LukeZaz@beehaw.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    China is kind of notorious for being the place where you can find internet trolls for hire for cheap.

    Reflexively associating people & things you dislike with an ethnicity is a form of hate, and you are doing it. After all, America has plenty of – hell, I’d argue more – easily bought trolls available, and yet I don’t seem to see a whole lot of people bringing up their nationality so much, assuming they mention them at all.

    And I’m not going to ignore racist statements just because pointing it out causes tension.

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