Caught your attention, didn't it? Mine too. This morning I came across Steve Silberman's twitter headline pointing out that when people typed "I Am Extremely" into the Google search bar, one of the top suggestions was "Terrified of Chinese People." Fascinated to see what fools these mortals be, I clicked the link only to discover an article on Christwire that was actually able to claim that they were terrified of a racial group but that this didn't mean they were racist. Confused? You're not alone. Just take a quick look at some of the extremely confused statements that attracted nearly 200,000 searches. It seems we may be in the midst of a new "Yellow Peril" that first gripped the United States in the 1880s (see anti-Chinese propaganda poster from that time to the right).
According to Christwire:
I am extremely terrified of Chinese people, but I am not racist. You should feel the same way too.Much like their brethren in the USSR and the Democratic party, the Chinese are atheistic wonders. Their lack of morals means they have no problems developing WMDS with which to bring massive death, all while doing genetic manipulation and cloning to ensure population boom.
I'm not sure which part of that statement is the looniest. Is it the claim that the Chinese are atheists or that Democrats are? The blanket statement that a nation of nearly a billion people "lack morals" or that they're cloning people to grow their populations (afterall, they all look the same, right?).
A national poll by Harvard University found that, on college campuses, students who identify as Republican or Democrat had about the same level of religious belief. Where they differed was how much it should be a part of the political process.
As for the alleged atheism in China, according to the Chinese governments own statistics there are:
over 100 million followers of various religious faiths, more than 85,000 sites for religious activities, some 300,000 clergy and over 3,000 religious organizations throughout China.
While the abuse of Falun Gong followers is clearly a serious human rights issue, it's pretty clear that China is not an "atheistic wonder." For that you'd have to go to Norway.
But the crazy just keeps getting crazier:
Only 60 years ago, these Asian peoples joined up with Adoldf Hitler in order to destroy the most moral nation on Earth. Even though their attacks took the life of many good men on a day of infamy, America was blessed to rain bombs of freedom and nurture resultant liberty within a very dark Asian culture.
Reality check. I believe you're thinking of the Japanese. Are you really not able to tell the difference? The Chinese were the victims of Japanese aggression (think Rape of Nanking) and were decidedly not allied with the Axis powers. And those "bombs of freedom" that you so highly praise, they were dropped on innocent civilians most notably in the form of atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki where there were no military forces whatsoever. It's one of the great crimes of the 20th century. You should probably know where it happened.
Historically, Chinese people have naturally wanted to bring destruction and great mayhem to all things American. Liberals will tell you lies and say this is not true and very extreme, but mark my words. Liberals want nothing more than to see a small population of American overran by billions of Asians. This is why they support abortion.
Yes, I couldn't agree more. Abortion is nothing but a secret plot to reduce the number of white people in preparation for welcoming our new Chinese overlords. I'm sorry, what?
Know that the Chinese are going to attempt a great battle, battle being perhaps better described as a world domination plan. Such endeavors typify their nature, as their culture still does not value the principles of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.Asia still is bitter about WW2, and how we showed them new ways to live outside their old Pagan tradition, and it's for this reason that you must be very afraid. At its roots China embraces communism, a practice which noble men like Senator McCarthy, President Ronald Reagan and the somewhat liberal John Paul II fought against with all their heart.
It would seem that this rant is little more than Christian dominionism attempting to force Cold War mythologies into an epic battle between good and evil. If China is so committed to communism that surely must make Wal-Mart, the primary importer of Chinese goods, the most successful communist enterprise in history. God bless Ronald Reagan and his free market belief system for helping the godless Chinese? The Chinese government has entirely rejected communism in any literal sense. That's why the United States is so keen to do business with them. Noble men like Senator McCarthy and President Reagan have no problem doing business with dictators, but when they start advocating for the poor and downtrodden (such as in Nicaragua where Reagan conducted a secret terrorist war) that's when they get religion.
Despite past American grace, the menace of the the People's Republic of China truly a great peril to the world today. Indeed, these people seek nothing but to steal land from the West and kill you and your family dead in the process.
Right. Perhaps one of the great ironies of this whole piece are the Google ads that appear to the right of this viciously racist diatribe. Not one, but two separate links promoting "Beautiful Chinese Women For Dating and Marriage." There you have it. We need to go to war with the Chinese to defend our very existence, and then marry their women. It's just like the Good Book says:
Have you saved all the women alive? . . . Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves (Numbers 31:15-18).
And people say Christians don't know their Bible.



















Comments
WTF? LOL.
Posted by: Raymond Ho | November 2, 2009 1:05 PM
Personally, I think this Christwire outfit sounds like a bunch of sickos. It's true China is now getting economically powerful, but then, the Chinese have been around for some 5,000 years. We here in the USA, haven't. As for the rest of it, it's just laughable. But people like the ones who support groups like Christwire, can be dangerous, and it's a good idea to let them alone as long as they don't do anything but foam at the mouth, but at the same time, keep an eye on them.
Anne G
Posted by: Anne Gilbert | November 2, 2009 2:55 PM
Dudes, it's the wacky-ass fundies; do you expect any different?
Posted by: Katharine | November 2, 2009 6:58 PM
Boy howdy. Take all of the misconceptions, myths, ignorance and lies about twentieth century history, add a heaping hand full of Christian paranoid promotion of a catastrophe they believe is long overdue and puree with ice cubes of frozen primal fear.
How can anybody drink that stuff? It makes my adrenals run dry before I can even piss!
Posted by: Crudely Wrott | November 2, 2009 8:12 PM
The only thing that bothers me more than crazy, non-sensical, ignorant, hate-filled rants are the people who take them seriously. Yesterday I passed a man on the street screaming that Obama was an alien and the man was a time-traveller come to save us all with glo-sticks and ball-point drawings on Kleenex (then he started mumbling to a dog something about Twizzlers). I did not, however, write a blog pointing out the errors in his logic, seeing as how he was just completely f**king nuts. This Christwire article deserves the same respect, and I'm sure we all have better things to do with our time and minds than to critique it as if it were remotely valid. People who write such nonsense should be ignored. Hopefully then they will just go away.
Posted by: Rae | November 2, 2009 8:24 PM
I kind of agree with Rae that this type of thing should just be ignored but then I wouldn't have had my laugh for the night.
Posted by: Julis | November 2, 2009 8:38 PM
I don't know, do we ignore this stuff at our own peril? Isn't something like 80% of Americans buy into this Christian stuff and I doubt a significant portion of these people are sharp enough to recognize the historical errors in this rant.
Posted by: Owen | November 2, 2009 8:52 PM
LOL - you guys just got Poed...
Posted by: Ben | November 2, 2009 10:06 PM
Uh..."marry?" Dude, reread the quoted passage. x.x
Posted by: Azkyroth | November 2, 2009 10:28 PM
Are you sure this guy wasn't Eric Cartman???
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/187260/
(Cartman fears the Chinese are going to take over the world and starts the American Liberation Front to stop the Chinese at almost any cost.)
Posted by: C. Chu | November 2, 2009 10:43 PM
what ben said. christwire is satire, just like landover baptist
Posted by: Jadehawk | November 2, 2009 10:54 PM
It's humor, but very well done. Other posts by Amber include "Chinese Invent Giant Firebreathing Robot Armies." The giant firebreathing robot looks a lot like Casper the Friendly Ghost except all giant, firebreathing, and made of metal.
Posted by: John J. McKay | November 3, 2009 12:31 AM
Yeah, my irony meter is going off. Seriously, has anyone in the history of sapient life _ever_ used the phrase "bombs of freedom" in a non-ironic manner?
Posted by: Snoof | November 3, 2009 4:39 AM
Oh, man, if this is a poe it's very well done. I can absolutely believe this could be written by some extremist in all seriousness.
Thanks for my daily laugh.
Posted by: Anida Adler | November 3, 2009 4:44 AM
My favorite headline from the site: "The Golden Girls: How One TV Show Turned A Generation Of American Boys Into Homosexuals."
Posted by: jimspice | November 3, 2009 6:25 AM
Its getting scare when you can no longer tell when the Christian Extremism is almost identical to the satire about them. And sadly I can picture some born again loonie saying "bombs of freedom". In my, catholic, fathers version of history we fought the revolutionary war against the Nazis for Freedom, Christianity, and the Standard measure system... He's getting his war movies confused more and more often.
Posted by: Troy | November 3, 2009 7:18 AM
"Oh, man, if this is a poe it's very well done. I can absolutely believe this could be written by some extremist in all seriousness."
Which is, in fact, what Poe's law says.
Posted by: NoAstronomer | November 3, 2009 7:22 AM
I liked the article on the bearsharktopus. http://christwire.org/2009/09/crazed-evolutionists-create-bearsharktopus/
Perhaps PZ could comment on that one. :)
You may also be interested in http://www.landoverbaptist.org/
Posted by: Bob | November 3, 2009 10:24 AM
So a blog post is (apparently) written by group C, demonizing group A by treating them as one monolithic entity devoted to unhistorical acts of inhumanity. We (group L) find this blog post, and lament about how low group C has sunk. Once it is pointed out that the post is a none-too-subtle parody, we shrug and say that we couldn't be expected to figure that out, since you KNOW all those group C people are so bad that this is exactly the sort of thing they'd do.
Color me "concern troll", but this seems to say a lot more about us than it does about group C.
Posted by: Raka | November 3, 2009 10:50 AM
Raka, I might agree with you, if I didn't know for a fact that my own brother, though apparently sane and possessed of rational capacity in most matters, holds a belief-set that uncomfortably resembles the post under discussion. I can't see him being a lone aberration, therefore have no trouble believing in the possibility of a group A running along exactly these lines.
Posted by: cicely | November 3, 2009 2:11 PM
@Raka: Indeed, the line of reasoning you describe is the same used by Rush Limbaugh to claim that although a socialist essay allegedly written by Obama in college was satire, we "just know" Obama really thinks that way. Of course, that doesn't mean that no evangelicals would accept these Yellow Peril beliefs. What's really disturbing is that people genuinely hold beliefs which are indistinguishable from satire.
Posted by: Emily | November 3, 2009 7:41 PM
lol. I typed "I am" in google, and the whole "terrified of chinese people" came up as the second choice after bored. Google is so wierd! There are some really racist people out there tho...
Posted by: hjh | November 6, 2009 5:28 PM
I was Poe'd by another article on Christwire.org. There is no shame in falling for it.
Posted by: George | November 8, 2009 2:48 PM
For the record, the vast majority of Christians do NOT believe anything like this. The christwire website is either a spoof or the work of a small, racist, bigoted minority. Unfortunately, these kinds of people reflect badly on the rest of us.
Posted by: Chaz | November 14, 2009 9:14 PM
probably related to the kkk
Posted by: jake | November 20, 2009 4:15 PM