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ESTABLISHMENT ROLE IN ANTI-ASIAN BIGOTRY
By Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report.
March 26, 2021 | EDUCATE!
Joe Biden Is No Better Than Trump In Advocating De Facto White Supremacy
With His Foreign Policy, And Corporate Media Fan The Flames Of Anti-Chinese
Racism.
"The media in this country always use non-white people as the focus of
suspicion."
Ever since a white Georgia man killed six Asian women and two others in
Atlanta, the corporate media have jumped onto the "stop Asian hate"
bandwagon as if they are innocent bystanders. It is easy to point fingers at
a murdering local redneck and leave unexamined the media role in spreading
hatred based on race and nationality.
Sinophobia in particular has been quite overt, with the corporate media
following the dictates of U.S. foreign policy. When Donald Trump was
president they repeated his every lie and insult, and supported every
decision intended to thwart China. They may have sneered when he spoke of
the "China virus" but they joined in telling lies about the beginnings of
the COVID pandemic and ignored China's successful response which resulted in
fewer than 5,000 deaths while Americans have more than 500,000 and counting.
When those narratives were combined with typical American racism it is
little wonder that mass murder and hatred will take hold.
"When Donald Trump was president corporate media supported every decision
intended to thwart China."
Joe Biden is no better than Trump in regard to advocating de facto white
supremacy with his foreign policy. He continues all of Trump's initiatives
including any and all interference in the affairs of other countries,
bombing Syria, imposing sanctions, keeping a dictator in place in Haiti, and
taking vain yet dangerous actions to curb China's influence around the
world. Biden has even maintained Trump's massive reduction in the number of
refugees who may enter the U.S., a racist policy which could easily be
reversed. Racism is the undercurrent of many decisions made in Washington.
But the rest of the world doesn't accept bizarre American fantasies. They
assert their own rights, as was seen when Secretary of State Antony Blinken
met with Chinese counterparts in Anchorage, Alaska. Before the meeting began
the U.S. openly demonized China by harping about Hong Kong, which belongs to
China, and by promoting more false tales of Uyghur oppression. An anonymous
official who obviously has administration ties wrote an anti-Chinese screed
published by the Atlantic Council which posited that president Xi Jinping is
an evil man who can and must be dispatched. As if to ensure that the meeting
was a complete debacle, the U.S. sanctioned 24 Chinese officials before the
talks even began.
"Biden has even maintained Trump's massive reduction in the number of
refugees who may enter the U.S., a racist policy which could easily be
reversed."
Nothing positive can come from verbal attacks, especially when the Secretary
of State used the press to witness his scolding of the Chinese. But he was
not prepared for an enumeration of America's sins and human rights abuses
recounted by Chinese officials. Yang Jiechie correctly pointed out, "Many
people within the United States actually have little confidence in the
democracy of the United States."
No one should be surprised about a rise in bigotry when Trump invoked cold
war rhetoric against the Chinese communist party, words which apparently
replaced "radical Islamic terrorism" as the go-to right wing talking point.
United States senators complained about Chinese students and said they were
all spies who shouldn't be allowed to study science while in this country.
Democrats predictably join in and speak of China as an adversary which must
be kept under control. So-called progressives join in the hatefest just as
eagerly as Trump and now Biden do.
The media in this country always use non-white people as the focus of
suspicion. Black people are the group routinely dehumanized in a myriad of
ways. All Muslims are called terrorists and are targets of profiling. The
entire global south are labeled "shithole countries" whose citizens connive
to arrive via "chain migration," a process which Europeans used freely
without being attacked.
"So-called progressives join in the hatefest just as eagerly as Trump and
now Biden do."
Although if the state narrative calls for it even Europeans can be lumped
into the undesirable category. Former Director of National Intelligence
James Clapper famously said that Russians were "almost genetically given to
co-opt, penetrate, gain favor." The Russiagate fraud has made them an
acceptable target for the foreseeable future.
But China looms large as the biggest target of white supremacist bias. Their
crime is daring to have successfully remained a socialist state which has
survived for more than 70 years and to be on the verge of surpassing the
U.S. economically.
If the State Department and leading newspapers express animosity towards a
country and its people, no one should be surprised by assaults and even
murder against that group. In any case the biggest killers are all safely at
the top of the pyramid, untouched and unbothered. But their words and deeds
have consequences. When the consequence is death no one should be surprised
or let the worst bigots off the hook because they meet inside the White
House.
Margaret Kimberley's Freedom Rider column appears weekly in BAR, and is
widely reprinted elsewhere. She maintains a frequently updated blog as well
at patreon.com/margaretkimberley and she regularly posts on Twitter
@freedomrideblog. Ms. Kimberley lives in New York City, and can be reached
via e-Mail at Margaret.Kimberley(at)BlackAgendaReport.com.
