How to End Racism in China?

Zion

Watching that BBC documentary is a heart-tearing experience. But I need to further discuss racism in China. I’m NOT TROLLING when I said, “China itself is the root of racism.” And I have to bring this up because I’ve already seen people with good will shifting the blame to CCP, censorship, or capitalism, not “Chinese people.”

No, it’s not true. It’s a downplay of the seriousness of the issue, and an insult to the victims of Chinese racism right now, say, Uyghurs and Tibetans.

TL; DR:

1, Chinese is an identity crafted meticulously to hate self-governing communities. A self-identified Chinese won’t respect any community’s culture, language, and tradition, especially when that community is less developed. Instead, they would like to see one community shattered by the government, preferably the Chinese government. This is the average mindset of the Chinese.

2, Any intention toward the worse side, blatant racism, openly calling for genocides or even terrorist attacks, is not discouraged, as long as it targets something other than the authority. The hatred of those radical Chinese nationalists can be a safe outlet for venting their grudge against the Chinese government.

3, Any intention toward the better side, criticizing racism, defending those who cannot, or promoting human rights, will, at a certain point, inevitably makes you the person that brings people together. And your operation will be suppressed immediately by China, even if you claim yourself Marxist, anti-capitalist, or any other ideology that the CCP cannot deny.

Now here’s the extended version:

Racism is systematical in China, meaning the public education and state-controlled media have endorsed it for several decades. In the early years of the Leninist era, it was the “imperialists” like Americans, Japanese, etc. And later, when the nationalist narrative kicked in after the 1990s, it’s “cultural thief” Koreans or any self-imagined tributaries of modern China.

The racism toward the black community usually belongs to the latter. The root cause for this mindset is the old pride of the Chinese empire, shared among the emperor and the untouchables. As China’s influence crept into SEA and Africa, so was the revival of the imagination of a strong and rich Chinese empire.

The content of this imagination includes: China’s superiority derives from its economic development, and the less-developed countries can share the secret of its fast modernization, should they pay their fair share of respect to China, along with the gesture of that respect, ideally becoming the target of exploitation. In this sense, those countries become the de-facto tributaries of China.

The notion that China is economically superior and envied by the less developed countries in SEA and Africa is typical propaganda firmly believed by most Chinese.

Yes, average Chinese are fully aware of the human rights violations in China’s economic development in the last decades. They’re not blind, just shortsighted: If they’re migrant workers, they may complain about the inhumane treatment from their supervisors; if it’s the small business owners, they’ll complain about the harassment from local authorities, asking for bribery.

But do they generally believe that: first, if the economic growth can bring about the glorious Chinese empire, it was worth it? And second, Africa would envy the Chinese because China can make you rich, whatever the cost? Yes, they firmly believe so. And for the same reason, they believe the premise behind the “miracle” of the Chinese economy. And it is that premise, rooted in the concept of “China,” that leads to the systematic racism in China.

What is the premise, or shall we say the secret, behind the “miracle” of the Chinese economy then? Take notes, dictators.

Step one: identify every community, if not all, that could bring people together (it doesn’t matter what their visions are. Even if they’re a pacifist Church — when they can get people together, count them in);

Step two: murder every single “core” member of those communities, without whom people will scatter around and forget their community identity. Remember, the core member doesn’t have to be rich or seemingly powerful: an elementary teacher or a poor nun may be the core member; a coward local millionaire may not be;

Step three: when every community mentioned gets into poverty after the purge, give it some time for a fine brew. Let the rest of the people taste the bitterness and helplessness of poverty and political persecution.

Step four: the critical step. Kiss some Free World asses, show your starry eyes, and promise that you will flood the world with cheaper products, and you might even turn good if they let you join the world market. Don’t tell them about the sweatshops’ impact on their workers.

Step five: Congrats! You can now open sweatshops. People without their community leaders will do everything to escape poverty and political persecution. Minimal wage in a sweatshop? Yes, even that. Then you can have your own economic miracle.

The five steps mentioned in the manual of making a Chinese. Before the steps, one’s political identity is specific and local: they can be of one village, one clan, one church, etc. After the steps, their identity is formated, and their allegiance goes to the Leviatan called China, not because they want to but because they have no choice.

These steps are not invented by communists; instead, it’s the wisdom of the Chinese empire fused with some communist insight. And you can only imagine the product of these steps: how they think and see the world. Without any kindness from the community, the Chinese believe in social Darwinism more than the Nazis once did. Here, exploiting, only because you can; being exploited, only because you cannot.

Yet no, I was not implying “every Chinese is racist.” What I mean was that in China, if you accept the narrative around you and never doubt anything, you will automatically become a believer in social Darwinism, even though you can be a victim of the system yourself. In fact, the more you’re the victim, the more you need the dopamine from “a strong and rising China,” which can make you forget being bullied by watching China bullying others.

A strong and rising China needs its tributaries in the coordinate to shrine its prowess; China is superior, its tributaries inferior. Hence, the racism. China is fully aware of the racism, yet they are OK with it because, in a way, hating other groups of people is a perfect distraction from hating the right one.

And what if people started to doubt it? Can’t someone find the racism irrefutably ugly and disgusting and begin to think otherwise? The answer is: yes, one can think otherwise, but one can do nothing to change it.

Let me illustrate by completely switching to another topic: the good samaritan law, which is a law to protest those who help strangers in need. The law protects them from being sued for wrongdoings. In a way, it encourages people to act bravely to help anyone in danger.

Good samaritans are essential for modern society and, quite frankly, the salt of the earth. According to my theory, good samaritan is a phenomenon where the bond and trust within the communities has “overflown” so that one can share their goodwill with even strangers.

So, what about China? Theoretically, China “has” good Samaritan laws, just like China “has” a voting system and the right to protest. However, 100% contrary to the paper, China’s practice of law in real life is entirely against the behavior of being a good Samaritan.

(Actually, right now, on June 16, 2022, there was this news where four girls were beaten and abused publicly by local gang members, and no one ever stood out, Google it.)

Specifically, helping strangers who, for example, get beaten or robbed on the street by fighting with the perpetrator can get you into serious trouble. If you ever laid hands on the perpetrator, the whole thing will be identified as “public brawling” instead of “an act of good Samaritan.” In this case, you will even be charged with assaulting and sentenced to prison if the perpetrator can somehow legally prove that they hurt way worse than you.

And if you’re familiar with what happened in China. A similar case, this time without violence, could have shocked you before: an old lady fell on the street, and a goodwill man came and helped her up. Later, the lady sued the man for “tripping her down in the first place,” Without solid evidence, the law system let the lady win, and the man was sued bankrupt. And then you know what? For the following decades, no one ever dares to help the elderly up when they fall.

Why was I changing the subject? Because what happened is not due to some ridiculous Soviet-style bureaucracy. The Chinese government does it on purpose because this is the pivotal point of the construction of China: breaking up communities, feeding on their corpse, and preventing them from regrouping. So we mentioned how to break up those communities. Now you witnessed how they keep it that way.

You all know that China fears human-rights activists, lawyers, and protesting students. But think about this: why do they even have to punish some non-political hot-blooded nobody?

Simple, because like all the activists and lawyers, a good Samaritan is also a potential “core” around whom a community can regrow. People trust selflessness, braveness, and altruism. And China’s existence relies on none of those emerging.

Now it’s even easier to understand why anti-racism cannot work: because anti-racism requires the virtue of being brave and honest and helping those who cannot defend themselves. If someone actually has those qualities and starts to do something about it, people will gather around them, and the bud of a real community whose members trust each other will grow, upon which people will have something valuable to protect. From whom? You know already.

And this is why anti-racism can only stay in someone’s mind if they decide to live in China.

By the same logic, turning good is hard, while getting worse can be far more effortless. China punishes the good virtues that can reform a community and encourages those that can break one apart: treachery, cruelty, and selfishness.

In the last two cases, those who went low won. And if you are familiar with the society in China, you know the chance of someone who simultaneously has the tendency to go low every time can also have a connection in the party. This is how the system is built.

Therefore, the problem of systematic racism can not be solved without deconstructing China. The concept of China is poisonous, and since the birth of this concept (100 years ago), China has devowed myriads of communities in different nations that could be far more prosperous and peace-loving than it. From the corpse of that could-be Far-East international community, China breeds the monstrous, racist people you see everywhere in the world and on the Internet.

So it is time, especially for the freedom-lovers born in China, to ditch the kind-hearted progressive narrative that only the CCP is evil and Chinese people are generally good. If you’re born in it, you know it’s not true. And so long as the concept of China persists, it will continue to be racist and aggressive (or do you genuinely believe they’ll be content and stop after assimilating Uyghurs and Hong Kongers).

The solution to this problem is straightforward: if you want the people from that continent to stop being racist, deconstruct it, and balkanize it into dozens of nations that can breed and protect communities. In this way, you can genuinely have some healthy competition where the better side of humanity can have a chance to prevail.