Ryan just did really neato and thought-provoking post entitled “Am I Racist?” Now, I assure you Ryan is far from a racist, and anyone accusing him of such deserves to be tarred, feathered, and kicked in the nut-sack until their ancestors feel it.

I don’t know about you guys, but I like my free speech. But one drawback about living in China is that sometimes you just gotta dilute your criticisms.

Otherwise, you may very well be told — like Ryan was — “If you don’t like it, why don’t you go home?”

Sometimes this feedback comes from local Chinese. China’s not a place where anyone can openly criticize whatever they want about the country. And it’s certainly not a place where non-Chinese guests can criticize. It’s usually met with a “Not-in-my-house-you-don’t!” response. And I think anyone with half a brain in their head can see the silliness behind that knee-jerk reaction.

Sometimes the “If-you-don’t-like-it-go-home” comes from, as Ryan calls them “Sensitive Sally” expats. I prefer to call them dumb-shit fuckwits.

On a bit of a side note, I feel fucking proud to have come from a culture where people can get away with stuff like the following.

Here are a few t-shirts which seem to be popular in the Asian-American community. One says, “Bai ren kanbudong” essentially meaning “White People can’t read this.” The other, a play on the Chinese words “Na ge” or “Nei ge” (pronounced almost as “nigga”), reads “Nigga Please!.”

Bairen kanbudong t-shirt Nigga Plz!

Personally I think anyone who takes offense to those needs (yet again) a good swift kick in the sack. Now of course most people who would take offense likely cannot read it, as the shirt says. So they are kinda flying under the P.C. radar.

Sure, I’m white and I’m the butt of the t-shirt’s joke. But the Asian laowai have made a damn good funny, and good on ‘em for doing so.

All the same I can’t help but think about wearing a similar shirt in China. Though I’m not sure how long I’d last wearing this:

Is this Racist?

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