@joepie91 oh come on, not again

@mynameistillian I occasionally click through to the replies as viewed from another instance, and racist commentary like this nearly always seems to originate from either mastodon.social, infosec.exchange, or fosstodon - with occasionally other generic open instances in the mix...

Especially the sinophobia seems really common on infosec.exchange and also in retro circles 😕

@necrophcodr The implication that it's unsafe because it's "from China", rather than because an irresponsible white asshole demanded an impossible set of design constraints and had the power and money to make that other people's problem to figure out

@joepie91 but isn't that discrimination and not racism? if i say Americans make fat foods, or Chinese build bad products, I'm being discriminatory, narrow minded, and ignorant, but not racist?
I mean I agree that the problems of Tesla has nothing to do with what country they're manufacturing them in, that doesn't even make sense, but I guess I just don't see that implication as being about the people of China, or any ethnicity at all.

@necrophcodr It is racist. Racism isn't just about ethnicity in a direct sense, particularly when systemic racism gets involved.

And the two claims (about Americans vs. Chinese people) are not comparable at all to begin with; because the root of racism is a power imbalance, and Americans are absolutely on the 'powerful' side of that imbalance.

@joepie91 i suppose im just not smart enough to understand this then, but thank you for trying to clarify it!