<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 12:15 AM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 5:46 PM Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">Given the ignorant a-holes attacking asian americans for no other reason than this virus was first identified in Asia, perhaps the embassy wanted filthy Americans to gtfo - for exactly the reason you noticed about how well our culturally conditioned stupidity turns information into behavior. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### Attacks on Americans of Asian descent motivated by fear of the Chinese virus? This sounds like a CNN lede. Did it actually happen? Not another fake hate crime story?</div><div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So "fake news"?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If i read that a bar in houston's chinatown is giving away free beer upon showing a receipt from any of the local chinatown businesses because people are avoiding that part of the city, out of ignorance and fear... is it so difficult to imagine misdirected frustration could turn violent? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> I've seen fb posts "fuck china" from people who i know haven't been more than 50 miles from their rural American home their whole life. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But you're right, i wasn't personally attacked and was not firsthand accounting any violence towards asians. From the position that you can't trust news, no gay people have been beaten or killed for being gay and nobody is ever robbed or killed in cities, and I've never seen anyone die from covid.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I lead a very privileged life where nothing interesting happens... i guess i'm good with that.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div></div></div>
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