From: Yasha Levine <yasha@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2020 3:57 PM
To: miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Respectable Racism: The “War With China ” Edition
Like all elite-driven xenophobic campaigns, this “China did it” propaganda
wave displaces blame for domestic political problems onto an inscrutable,
foreign enemy and empowers the status quo.
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Respectable Racism: The “War With China ” Edition
Like all elite-driven xenophobic campaigns, this “China did it” propaganda
wave displaces blame for domestic political problems onto an inscrutable,
foreign enemy and empowers the status quo.
<http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxVUMtuxCAQ-5rlGBEgLDlw6KW_ERGYZGl5FSZb5e9
Ldk-V5mBZlj22NQh7rqcuuSE5GtTFOy2nmdKZOC3cqCZFfFu2ChCNDxrrAaQca_DWoM_p0vOZU_L
Qq3VOCj7ZOwOhlBFSUikoFZxJpfhGrpDFHM5DsqDhCfXMCUjQD8TSbvzjxj77naY9zNCOtaGx34P
NsZMFcgnQwUhnoeRIvGaUdXPGx3mSnA_j8LXDluIPha3eBI07-2dCqo6-ehOfPd93QS6YU_AJhgR
4dVq6Kh7J47lAMmsA966L73le7-NZQCf4bQEQob7J1wZ3qiTpgS73oZJ-tfgDYQp39g> Yasha
Levine
Apr 23
These nasty Chinese Lilliputians are killing the noble American Giant!
(Source: “
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IJSE_u8wtFSsFPmckWHb075r8nuX1Np8HOsLfsiMz5rf56n5V0yga0Kc2ELkTyh3-AYx4dm4>
Nativism, Then and Now”)
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Even before we were all told to quarantine, it was already clear that a
bipartisan campaign to label COVID-19 a foreign virus and blame it on China
was already gaining mainstream credibility. I wrote a bit about it here on
Immigrants as a Weapon
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RflX7A4qVgt8> more than a month ago.
Well, that mainstream credibility moment has finally arrived. Today, the
“China did it” narrative is being projectile vomited with a force and
credibility like never before. This bile takes different forms, tailored to
particular audience and market segments. We got everything from
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eCsIpEnZPWBNy8W2WqiOT53tGKiO6r6X8XcGPRXyfaAmvtCMzxm_yx-dBj70SoAuyDLK3uAT_AaS
AnfM> spy fed talk about Chinese bioweapons to
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FXckaS9bYMx6jCVYfbnX4SCxFCBNa1bUj5yOzqrFiaAeGcVoCwK5xUxQSsCPNGxpN6F3hy1Fy9lI
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DK-ZW85rnxpsMos9gvFsDxPiMaGFDB_FpfPBOnxhSfIqxlq1gqMoib2opxraTshLVzwqL2_84LOH
R8H2tq5jmSNr8FkUW1I4B9X5mq5gJ_iDvyv3KAZX3p8zak0O6J3B63sB-kqFPku9P6T5AFecbEEH
4DN9x9XzoWBa0Pmfq1K3jS_8DZKWHZA> Zoom being a Chinese plot to
<http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkE2OwyAMhU9Tdo1o_posWMxmrhER4jSeAZMBkyi
3H2gly7asJz_7M5rh5cOldh9ZpAhhwkX13SjlKBbVLo-hGwTGaQ0ATqNVHBKIPc0WjWb0VPTN2Ei
xqU52MJhZ61qucm362Tz7tXuOejRz25tWFJNJpwWBDCg4IFyeQFi1Me_x1nzd6u8c53lWdDE6iJX
xLk9qWctcZFv6OqcUc9q9RUZTWuODJ31gSPFuNiR9XzAirT6495XVxs4KVGWRbOvmMXZ901SP6uc
FK7k_CWu4tdK96iqmObI2v8VaBOUwoHZHPhmzwO_sySJBRcAFw5RVLhHyNQHp2cLyIcQfou-P-dp
BEZzRAjOEz_CN7SmHXmTDxWe2pC4dN_0PK42LRw> longwinded freak-outs about
“Chinese agents” using the virus to destabilize American democracy from
within — just like Russia was doing not so long ago! And then, of course,
you have auxiliary freak-outs about how Russia actually set the stage for
this catastrophe by meddling in…science. Science!
Whatever the particular theory, this stuff spans all political spectrums and
channels: from
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3PZsbbIS0U4orRugi0JlwaqytRqRjgujmFcInPH3KeoehYwcb4VVWOC1_ju9GrlyPrD0MqdUW7eH
Kw_0DycN8Bg> Fox News to
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3H2gly7asJz_7M5rh5cOldh9ZpAhhwkX13SjlKBbVLo-hGwTGaQ0ATqNVHBKIPc0WjWb0VPTN2Ei
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BEZzRAjOEz_CN7SmHXmTDxWe2pC4dN_0PK42LRw> the
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BEZzRAjOEz_CN7SmHXmTDxWe2pC4dN_0PK42LRw> New York Times to
<http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUEtuxCAMPc2wjBx-TRYsuuk1IiDODC2BFMxUuX3
JjOSFbT29n7eE91xOc-RKrFUsS1iNVjPAzFYj13FSEwt12QribkM0VBqyo7kYvKWQ04UXswD2MJY
LbzVuToMGK7iX1oGVTk8jSgTHLpHFtjVg8mjwieXMCVk0D6Kj3sTnjX_1ob9AhGXwee_XaevDRny
GhP2qZKnVvoxcgZxBKMX1pGBUoFgwHDiA5GKclRZiGIfvO25p_wXcyk3CfudDba6T-J-LnhWzhxL
s_uyWQgfkg3KKXWpISFfMpaP2lgKdCybrIq7vBujd2CsRnQeahH814uX7_XzV8gGTZl1wzb27ZF5
R_gHAq35H> Barack Obama and
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LWmkO45Flj71YhEcup9lzRdIqlDl4M6qJ0ol4Iz27qzsJdV4LwGZDNFgakL25GBaLIaeLLyZBydO
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LJdjt6C-FTsg75hS71ZAAr5hzZ20tBTxnSNZF8J8G8NPYOxGeO5gErxrh-vtzfNei6X0k3dDn3l0
y7yj_2-l9cQ> senile Joe Biden to the prog-liberal New Republic to the
<http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUMuOwyAM_JpyjCCQLDlw2Et_IyLgNOwGyIJplb9
fp5V8sEcjz8NZhEcupzlyRdYqlDl4Mw4T5xPzRnmhB81CndcCEG3YDZYG7GjLHpzFkNPFl5PkbDP
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rZv8BQ-p91w> courageous
<http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUMuOxCAM-5rhWAXoAw4c9rK_UdE2bdml0IUwo_7
90hkpByeyHNuzJdxiuswZM7GSMY1uMX2nATRbTLtw1Snm8rgmxMM6bygVZGeZvJstuRhuvtQS2G6
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3-w_dZnsm> hackpack of Pierre Omidyar’s The Intercept. Even the
<http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUEuOwyAMPU1ZRkCAwoLFbOYaESVOy0wCGTCtcvt
xWskL23p6vxgQ7qUefi8NWW9QpzR7ox3njs1ezcJqy1KblgqwhbR6rB3Y3m9rigFTySd-dCNnD6-
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O8g_PKH1t> woke scolds of the academic-online left are in on this.
And this is just a tiny sample. Looking at
<http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkM1uhSAQhZ_mstMgqFcXLLrpa5gRRp1WwPJjY5-
-eG8yCZPDmTnwaUi4-nCpw8fEcsQwkVF9N3I-MqNa0wzdwChOS0C0QLtKISM78ryThkTe3X45Ss4
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4G3dMCcNbfCF78qFnJdD4wtWpC-IG_0Y2iRY> Max Blumenthal and Ajit Singh’s
reporting on the evolution of the Chinese bioweapon theory, it’s safe to say
that the “China did it” campaign has finally reached mainstream consensus.
And we’re only two months into the quarantine! So trust me, it’s only gonna
get worse.
I’ve written quite a bit about how our society loves blaming foreigners for
American domestic political problems — the liberals do this as much as the
right.
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It happened after Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 and it’s happening once
again with COVID-19 — on what will probably an even great scale.
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The virus has revealed the total hollowness of our oligarchic society. Other
than bailing out the ruling class, our corrupt political class and their
political institutions have failed us spectacularly on every level — from
federal government
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9zMwqUvemVOrqeisU3GK61BFzIWfGNFutZD9ROhGtOs3GfiQ2zyYherBOlXQiOc7F2RWKjeH2i0l
QsquBc4Zm7KhkVALvGF2kHgbDermYCTpyh8xwaothRYVPTFcMSJzaSznyQ3w8-GedC_IObT6XXGD
9btfoq3jU1XA1gjfR2Q3SujcGkseUGxOjbiBoYhWnnNKOCzb1UoiWtV8bmuB_KJr06Kjf-L_DJCl
vkwX_rD_ZaohHicHZgG3Acvecq8ufwZZrxgCLQ_1GUN7IXpXKdaAK-JsdloLpLb64DHSUpAbqWOE
F9Wr2B81-gC8> down to the local level. We’re looking at continued lockdowns
with no testing, no tracing with no economic relief for the millions out of
the jobs. Out here in LA, the city’s neoliberal government won’t do anything
— it won’t even pass an eviction moratorium. In New York, the place we just
left, the grossly privileged second-generation governor is telling people
who lost their jobs because of a government quarantine order to go out and
get a job. “It’s that simple, bums! Get a job or starve!”
In cities all across America, revenues built on taxing consumption and
tourism, while leaving our oligarchs untouched. Budgets are gonna fall
through the floor and there is already wide talk about imposing austerity on
a local level. Combine that with historic unemployment and mass business
failures, it’s gonna be fucking ugly.
Like all pathogens, COVID-19 does not care about borders or nationalities.
It might have come from abroad, but the havoc it’s causing in America is the
result of our domestic politics: a degenerate bipartisan elite that has
presided over stunning levels of national decline and degradation, and which
has outsourced all political power to private, concentrated capital.
COVID-19 is like a tracer chemical injected into our body politic, allowing
us to see that process clearly.
And that’s why this “China did it” propaganda wave is so useful. Like all
elite-driven xenophobic campaigns, it displaces the blame for domestic
political problems onto an inscrutable, foreign enemy. This is what the
cynical assholes who rule us want — want and desperately need. They need to
focus our attention away from their own failure.
For decades, America’s corporate elite has outsourced their country’s
production capacity to China, very consciously destroying America’s
industrial base and its well-paying jobs, and decimating the last bits of
this country’s labor power. These people have treated America as little more
than a colony to plunder. Now, suddenly, it’s the Chinese who are root of
all of America’s problems.
What makes this anti-China campaign so dangerous is that it stands at the
confluence of a lot of powerful nationalist and imperialist elements in our
society — including our privatized security apparatus. And all it can do is
lead to more war, more empire, more racism and bigotry, and shittier
politics. Even before the lockdown hit and isolated everyone, it had already
triggered a wave of attacks against Chinese-Americans and anyone perceived
as “Chinese.” Those will only get worse. It’s dangerous as hell.
I want to write more about this anti-China campaign soon. But for now I’d
like to resurface up a couple of things I wrote that directly touch on this
topic.
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E-QfgAX5c> Yasha Levine @yashalevine
<http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUEduxDAMfM3qaKi4HnTIJd8wVGivEhVHonbh30d
eAzyQxGCaUQh7yqc8UkFSC-TVWTkOC6ULsbK3bB5m4sq6ZYCgnJeYK5Cjau-MQpfihReLoOQpld5
m06vBamsGM41CNxY9L5ariQlqyCWyqmodRAMSXpDPFIF4-UQ8ykN8Pfh3G3w7RMidSaFdpypP5eH
lIrSroMJa2sIYE5zzQdBZ9HzhkxiJk5xySnsu2DKMQnSs-9lhi-GPwpYfPQ0770rVjcT8XvQky-C
yU-HVLLkGSAem6JtUFwGvmGtDhRodnitEpT3YuwG8G_skwvMAGeFdPFy-7-enlonOI2mCNrXuovx
E-QfgAX5c> The bigotry behind RussiaGate isn’t coming from the
“lower-classes” that enlightened liberals love to mock, but from very top:
the crème de la crème of our media and political class.
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ZUvQuYheRTrKlucIeHR0LRtAe7QuaXiU9IejIqCL-VI9EWF7is4mJ30bWAm1qdUX1ZPkDoF58_g>
Respectable RacismThis bigotry isn’t coming from the “lower-classes” that
liberals love to mock so much, but from very top — the crème de la crème of
our media and political class.yasha.substack.com
April 2nd 2019
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I wrote them a while ago — even before I launched
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Vgz4r_gFLVoSU> Immigrants as a Weapon — in response to the Russiagate
hysteria that had gripped American since 2016. I explored the grossly racist
projections of that very liberal campaign — a campaign that sought to blame
America’s domestic political problems on a foreign, inscrutable enemy that
was invisibly infiltrating and infecting American society. Russiagate was
aimed at “Russia” and “the Russians” — including at people like me and my
family and friends. But it is directly relevant to the anti-China hysteria
today.
Check them out:
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Respectable Racism — “This bigotry isn’t coming from the ‘lower-classes’
that liberals love to mock so much, but from very top — the crème de la
crème of our media and political class.”
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-VfsDa46BtQ> Russiagate: A coming of age moment for Soviet immigrants — “We
never knew what it was like to have the country’s media and political class
brand people like us a possible threat.”
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_H3NXRdptRqMZzZsdwxbiaY-QWOQEccTF9t0g5SAW2y6N6YzANK4RwDvcLccM4sjTjrNjDHT59aC
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bv-s5-CIe5eeQI1cxp4SOUuVoqVJ4InAFHrcISaBVUknZKt0MXa913dRfG6zkfySs8dZKv6l_ySJ
ajxGdLzGExRAODrQjQU3A19CxuHwm5HMEctMOy5sBv5m9NvF5gCX4TTswQ3yLLzB3aXpRCpdQ6JF
9TfsDRr2ByQ> Court Russians and Soviet Emigres — “They escaped state-backed
antisemitism and bigotry, yet they now pump out stories that reproduce the
same kind of deadly xenophobic fairytales that have long been leveled at
Jews.”
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Xsz9h3IHb> RussiaGate wasn’t a media “failure,” it was a success — “If you
look at it dispassionately — as if you were analyzing the politics of
someplace far away like, say, late Romanov Russia — it’s easy to see how
RussiaGate has been a success.”
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