I've been seeing a huge amount of anti-Chinese sentiment online, from obvious places like reddit, to even misinformed friends on social media falling victim to viral posts filled with misinformation.

What are we to make of this? Is this the slow march to war, by portraying them as pure evil, à la the fake story of Iraqi soldiers killing Kuwaiti babies to help get the public on board with our military response? It seems disadvantageous for the US and their allies to fight China, as we are incredibly reliant upon them economically and don't stand to gain much from the conflict.

Are these the irrational decisions of a dying empire? Or is there something else at play?

  • CoralMarks [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Aren't there quite a lot of those endtime christians, especially in the US, who believe in some holy war in the middle east, which will lead to the rapture or some shit like that?

    • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeh, it’s why right wing Christian freaks in the US are all Zionists - they don’t actually care about Jews, but their end time prophecy requires a jewish state in the holy land or some shite