Xenophobia

The owner of a Chinese restaurant in Denmead, Hampshire UK recently received something unpleasant in the mail.  

Local authorities are investigating.

England, remember, is a place where calling a four hundred pound woman FAT is now a hate crime.
But let's apply some critical thinking to the situation, and see if we can figure out why, lately, our Chinese friends might be the subjects of such shocking racism.

Wikipedia has a list of places where dog meat -- and, presumably, the meat of cats, foxes, skunks, bats, muskrats, pretty much anything that moves, you kn0w they don't stop with dogs -- is consumed. With some notable exceptions, these places are Third World shitholes occupied by niggers and sand monkeys and gooks who wipe their asses with their hands, where the street is the toilet and toilet paper is something they've only heard about on Al-Jazzera. 

China is a notable exception. It's a First World shithole.  

Other notable exceptions are places in the West where only in times of scarcity "such as sieges or famines," like World War II, have dogs been routinely eaten. And Hawaii, where the law allows it if the animals are “bred for human consumption” and killed "in a humane manner," as a concession to all the gooks and chinks and slants who live there. 

In all of these civilized Western places -- even in the most civilized of all, Switzerland -- there are admittedly hillbillies holed up in the mountains or wherever, who manage to get on the news for killing and eating a pet dog. They don't have dog and cat meat markets. You can't, in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, places I've visited, buy a dog wrapped and ready to cook like it was a T-bone steak. 

Japanese people don't eat dogs and cats. That's why this cute little song about "American calico caaa-aaat"  was written and performed by a Japanese pop group and not one from, say, Korea. 

All other East Asian cultures EAT DOGS AND CATS. In fact, Vietnam -- you know, the shithole America fought for eleven years to save at the cost of 58,000 lives -- is the world's second largest consumer of dog meat. Only China -- you know, the country where  this pandemic started, in a dog and cat meat market in Wuhan -- kills, cooks and eats more puppy dogs. 

The Chinese also make soup out of bats, and human fetus parts, and think rats are a delicacy. 

So yeah, there just might be some anger and resentment -- no pun intended -- boiling, towards the folks whose disgusting, primitive dietary habits started a plague that killed over four hundred people in Italy yesterday and is forcing us here in the civilized USA to stay home so we don't catch it and die. 

Per the punch line of the old joke: if the foo shits, wear it.  

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