If this was how the average anti-China poster was on Lemmy and Reddit it would be a marked improvement compared to the blatant aggressive racism, chauvinism etc. of current.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fair point. I see the extreme vitriol as more a response to rising sympathies and an erosion of ground reactionaries can stand on ideologically. Dialectics and all that.

[–] gualudengren@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Definitely a contributing factor but I wouldn't be so sure that it's the core or main driver given the long history of orientalism etc.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago

Also a fair point, likely a secondary aspect.