• anthropicprincipal [any]
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    4 years ago

    You are absolutely correct. I meant to imply that liberals only picked up those stereotypes to use in their narratives recently; whereas before that they had usually treated the Chinese people as sympathetic victims.

    It was mostly the conservatives who wanted to battle the "Chinese menace". The liberals really thought they could export their shit political system to China by saying nice things about them.