Give It Up, NBC

China keeps infiltrating our academic, technological, and political systems, and NBC wants us to know that noticing this fact is a surefire way to increase anti-Asian hate.

So quit noticing!

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— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) May 18, 2026

It’s the old Norm Macdonald joke come to life. It’s not the assaults on our society that we should care about, but rather the collateral damage that stems from our noticing how we keep getting infiltrated and damaged. 

First of all, I should say that I actually think Chinese Americans have been a great addition to our society, at least as a class. While I don’t think individuals should be judged as members of a class—each of us is unique, and should be judged as such—I do think it is fair to judge classes of people as classes of people, and Chinese immigrants have been a net positive. 

Plus, I like their food. And American Jews would have nowhere to eat on Christmas Day without Chinese restaurants. 

But it’s also true that recent Chinese immigrants have been seeded with quite a number of actual or potential spies, and many Chinese students at our universities are spies or hostile to our country. The Chinese have police stations embedded in our country, Chinese students are blackmailed into spying even when they have no desire to, and China presents a threat to our infrastructure. 

In the face of all this, when it comes out that a Chinese spy was the mayor of a California town, NBC does what liberal media always does. Make it about white “phobias.”

Days after Eileen Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia, Calif., resigned from her post and pleaded guilty to acting as an illegal foreign agent of China, the mainstream media are doing what they do best: being very concerned about the racist backlash.

NBC News lamented that Wang’s resignation had “sparked backlash and reignited fears of anti-Asian discrimination.” The double-bylined article cited unspecified “racist comments” that “appeared on social media feeds” after the details of Wang’s case became public. The authors quoted several experts and “advocates” who were very concerned about the “dangerous” rise in anti-China rhetoric, including accusations of dual loyalty against Chinese-Americans.

“China is seen as such a rival that you have to pick sides,” said Russell Mark Jeung, professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University. “We’re so in a political polarized environment and racialized environment that it’s hard to straddle both.”

I’ve always been very skeptical of the “Asian hate” narrative, which served the political class well as part of the anti-Trump COVID narrative. Whenever Trump said the “China virus,” the media jumped up and down about Asian hate crimes. 

No doubt there is anti-Asian hate, because there is anti-everything hate. Hate of the other is as old as the human race, or for that matter most animal species. It is a survival mechanism built into our DNA, although human beings have some rational control over it. 

But seriously, being worried about Chinese infiltration into our vital infrastructure is just common sense. 

California is going down faster than Monica Lewinski in the oval office.

San Francisco now has a CCP Chinese (Non Citizen) on their election board! The Dems have officially boarded the crazy train. pic.twitter.com/hZF5kh1eZ6

— A Man Of Memes (@RickyDoggin) June 18, 2024

It’s not hateful to follow common sense. Just as it isn’t hateful to avoid walking through dangerous neighborhoods, it isn’t hateful to notice that the Chinese are infiltrating our country. 

Charges of racism are still incendiary, although they have become less so as they get overused. NBC is trying to shame us. It won’t work. 

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