Re: What do you think about the Corona virus conspiracy theories?
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It may be worse for you, but I doubt it's China levels of worse. "My building might get bombed" and "The NSA is creating a listening post" are very paranoid-seeming. As far as I know there hasn't been a bombing on U.S. soil by the U.S. government aimed at minorities, and the NSA wouldn't build a listening post anyway, they'd just ask your ISP to intercept your internet or something. Both of these seem very detached from reality, if only because the NSA would do way better of a job than to let you hear them building a listening post.
I'm fully aware that police interactions and the like are worse. Don't get me wrong. And I don't particularly like fighter jet airshows either. Also I wouldn't actually go out and shout that because there are problems it could cause, just not the FBI shows up at my door unprovoked problems, so it's not like that'd be consequence-free. But the number of non-white people that the U.S. has disappeared isn't actually that many people at all, in all the cases I've heard about it's taken much more than an unpopular opinion, and we can generally find out that they disappeared and at least a vague reason as to why. I'm not saying they're guilty, I get that 99% of them aren't, just that it's not quite so easy as having said the wrong thing at the wrong time. The U.S. government at least goes through the motions of finding some sort of connection or something. Your second cousin's grandchild is a terrorist isn't really rational or anything the government should hold against you, but it's more than the Chinese get. China just goes "We don't like you, actual guilt is irrelevant and we aren't pretending otherwise, delete".
Trump worries me, because we are actually closer to something bad than anyone likes to admit. Don't get me wrong. We can go downhill. But I don't think that anyone in the U.S. has it as bad as in China. I' absolutely not saying that how the U.S. treats non-white people is okay. I want to be really clear on that point. But it's still better than China.
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