For anti-racism and international solidarity: a response to Clive Hamilton on China
historian of Xinjiang, I talk on the crisis there regularly, and my forthcoming book engages much more seriously with the repression in Xinjiang and Hong Kong than either of his two works. Hamilton might not be a racist bigot, but I have always held that his exaggerated “silent invasion” narrative was likely to generate suspicion and racist hostility towards Chinese Australians. His paranoia, let us remember, extends as far as A rise in anti-Chinese racism has now come to pass, and Hamilton wants to duck any accountability for his role. As he sees it, this has been “triggered...
Source: greenleft.org.au
