Profiling the Chinese
Great, more Chinese nationals and naturalized citizens getting arrested for espionage. Just great. Just effin' fab-u-lous.
I've worked for big aerospace companies and, as a passing piece of trivia I'm Chinese, so it's no stretch for me to find issues here. Frankly, I'm not happy that even as "racially blind" America purports to be (or should be) I can't tell if all Chinese, even those whose families have been American since the 1800's, are going to be lumped together with these yahoos. The problem is, you can't get around the racial profiling opportunities. You have to be self-delusional to overlook the reality that these guys are immigrants from an economic and political competitor (and potentially a military competitor) and they do pose an increased security risk. Sure, it's probably about as severe as Jewish folks spying for Israel (which has happened), but it still doesn't take the sting out. Frustrating is what it is.
If this keeps up, the little fear-monger inside says it's going to be harder for Chinese-Americans to obtain security clearances and jobs, especially if those Chinese-Americans have relatives "somewhere other than America". Hell, if this keeps up, they're going to start putting us folks into concentration camps or something--not that I'm standing in line for that or anything.
I've worked for big aerospace companies and, as a passing piece of trivia I'm Chinese, so it's no stretch for me to find issues here. Frankly, I'm not happy that even as "racially blind" America purports to be (or should be) I can't tell if all Chinese, even those whose families have been American since the 1800's, are going to be lumped together with these yahoos. The problem is, you can't get around the racial profiling opportunities. You have to be self-delusional to overlook the reality that these guys are immigrants from an economic and political competitor (and potentially a military competitor) and they do pose an increased security risk. Sure, it's probably about as severe as Jewish folks spying for Israel (which has happened), but it still doesn't take the sting out. Frustrating is what it is.
If this keeps up, the little fear-monger inside says it's going to be harder for Chinese-Americans to obtain security clearances and jobs, especially if those Chinese-Americans have relatives "somewhere other than America". Hell, if this keeps up, they're going to start putting us folks into concentration camps or something--not that I'm standing in line for that or anything.
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