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Nowhere. Everywhere.
Still waiting for the outrage on this site over Morrissey's 2007 comment on True To You:
"I would go to wherever there seemed to be interest - except China, which is too barbaric. In China, as we all now know, cats and dogs are skinned alive for the fur industry. Come, come, nuclear bomb."
Golly! Did Morrissey advocate that China be nuked? Not just boycotted. Nuked, for Christ's sake?
Where's the outrage? Where's the indignation?
Could it be that maybe everyone read the comment and took it as (a) an exaggeration, per Morrissey's usual mode of speech and (b) recognized that Morrissey's dislike of China was founded solely and entirely on the fact that someone told him skinning cats and dogs was a national industry, and not racism?
I think the difference in effect Worm is that 'China' is particularly vague. China's government? China's history? China's culture? China's people? It's easy to distance one's self from the charge if you don't partake in the behaviour and you feel no great affiliation with whatever the individual feels is meant by "China".
By saying "Chinese" and combined with "species" (which sounds particularly clinical and cold), anyone who has ever considered themselves to be of Chinese heritage, living in whatever country around the world, becomes the focus of finger pointing and deemed to be a "subspecies". It's much harder not to be swept up in the net of the accused. Guilty or not of these offences you can't but feel that that is a direct barb in your direction.