Bashing 'the other' is wrong, whoever does it
Look who is being xenophobic now. If Trump's bashing Muslims is wrong, then it is no less right for the FBI chief to make scapegoats of Chinese students and academics.
Washington
IT HAS become conventional wisdom of sorts to label US President Donald Trump as an American nationalist, to point to the public statements he made during the presidential election campaign and since his inauguration as president, and to accuse him of being xenophobic, nativist and racist.
He has bashed the Chinese for trying to destroy the American economy, vilified Mexican immigrants as "criminals" and as "rapists", argued that Muslims posed a threat to the security of America, while occasionally stereotyping blacks, Jews, and Asians.
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