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ilovefacebook t1_j49lxfc wrote

it's not just COVID. it's "cheap products from China" aka "China taking our jobs", China imperialism, and the usual Asian stereotypes. attacks on Asians have been a thing long before COVID, although I'm not disputing that covid didnt help things along/give "another reason".

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statslady23 t1_j4ag9yu wrote

Chinese investors are buying up land in Indiana for some reason, particularly farmland. Don't know if that was motivation. Probably just a homeless guy with mental health/addiction problems. Lots of those in Bloomington. They will sometimes randoms ride the student bus for warmth in the winter.

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WilderKat t1_j4gd3si wrote

China owns a very small portion of farmland in the US - 192,000 acres out of 35 million acres. Canada is the largest foreign owner of America farmland with 12.4 million acres.

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statslady23 t1_j4gswjh wrote

At the end of 2019, foreign investors own 35 million acres of farmland, 192,000 of which was individually Chinese owned. There were 890 million acres of farmland in the US in 2019. The push for China to buy has been large since then, one reason is the belt/road project, but others are for purely agricultural supply in China and development. For example, Indiana has a large chip plant on the horizon. Indiana actually put a limit of 320 acres per foreign individual or company for ownership in mid 2022. Here's a Politico article about the Chinese investment in agricultural acreage. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/19/china-buying-us-farms-foreign-purchase-499893

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altacan t1_j4a7yob wrote

It took decades to get to this point, back in the 70's and 80's it was the Japanese stealing American IP and undercutting American manufacturing.

>HOW JAPAN PICKS AMERICA'S BRAINS Much of its economic success has been built on bought, borrowed, or stolen technology.

> December 21, 1987 (FORTUNE Magazine)

The murder of Vincent Chin was in 1982, where two unemployed autoworkers hunted down and beat a Chinese American to death with a baseball bat and were sentenced to probation.

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FapMeNot_Alt t1_j4dz0q9 wrote

That's pretty ironic considering literally everybody's success is built on "bought, borrowed, or stolen technology".

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cptnamr7 t1_j49o50a wrote

Not just leaders. Right-wing nutjobs in general. I have a coworker that blares talk radio 24-7. He was telling us a few years ago how China was amassing troops on the IL-IN border in preparation to invade. Oddly, it never happened. And also...just no fucking clue where to start with that one. But he's CONSTANTLY ranting about China. All of my...educated coworkers are.

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roguedigit t1_j4amvv8 wrote

> Right-wing nutjobs in general.

I'm not so sure. Buying (willingly or not) into misinformation about China seems to be uniquely bipartisan, at least for the US. Hell, even reddit does it literally every damn day.

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ilovefacebook t1_j49t3cf wrote

as my family is Chinese, it's complicated. my way back extended family left China for a reason. it sucks there.

China went through an industrial revolution in like 1 month because they didn't care about the cost of the environment, and are complacent with slave labor, and have a lot of resources. capitalistic countries obviously keyed on that and that's why some of our goods are so inexpensive.

fast forward to a bunch of Chinese Nationals getting rich and buying stuff up in other countries, and promising work to poor areas.

now, sure, some of those folks have established businesses and land here in the u.s. But some (mostly white) person had to sell property to them, and are also the ones complaining about the Chinese. and here we are. I'm in the camp that we shouldn't let foreigners buy property here. but capitalism.

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FapMeNot_Alt t1_j4dzc5k wrote

> I'm in the camp that we shouldn't let foreigners buy property here. but capitalism.

I'm actually pretty fine with foreign ownership of property, with the caveat that there should be a hard cap on residential properties and a massive idle land tax on unused property.

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ilovefacebook t1_j4e2gx9 wrote

agreed. i should have been more specific. non-primary residential property

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Maximillion666ian t1_j4a94n6 wrote

The funniest part is when they call the second largest economy communist when it's a form of authoritarian conservative capitalism. China has more in common with right wingers then they realize.

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SG_wormsblink t1_j49rrjf wrote

And how does that apply to all Asians?

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Banea-Vaedr t1_j49ru00 wrote

People who can't tell the difference between a person and a government.

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not_good_for_much t1_j49tfto wrote

Stochastic terrorism go brr

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not_good_for_much t1_j49uuax wrote

Yeah, they're just the other the racist nutjobs who buy into right wing conspiracy hysteria.

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thefugue t1_j4a0fjt wrote

It’s almost like you might be blaming a cliche instead of something lesser known!

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thefugue t1_j4a2605 wrote

I’m skeptical that it isn’t because whites are less likely to be charged with violent crime than black people.

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ilovefacebook t1_j49u48o wrote

it, on paper, doesn't apply to all Asians, but irl, it applys to all Asians.

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