InflectionPointUSA

History tends to repeat itself. The USA has a long history of racism including Sinophobia. Just listen to how Rubio and other US politicians talk about China and what they perceive as the Chinese threat.

Racism towards Chinese wasn’t the default condition, it developed over time. I see parallels with what I have witnessed over the past decade.

The article describes horrifying atrocities, and I'm glad the author drew parallels to the rise of anti-Asian and anti-Chinese racism in the US lately.

In 1850, Chinese arrivals to San Francisco were welcomed at a public ceremony, but as their numbers grew the sentiment toward them turned ugly. Horrific episodes of racial violence soon erupted in the minefields. California’s highest court ruled that Chinese testimony against a white person was inadmissible. Politicians, sensing an opportunity, began to call for the removal of Chinese residents.

In the eighteen-seventies, as a prolonged economic downturn shuttered businesses and idled white workingmen, the anti-Chinese movement accelerated.