Thread by @BaldingsWorld

A fundamental of a color blind society is whether two individuals or groups of different racial or ethnic background are treated in similar ways before the law and in society. As some are so lightly throwing around charges if racism around any thing looking critically at 1/n

China's involvement in key US institutions let's take the MIT example and use an existing comparison to see if charges if racism stand up. For many years, Russian individuals and institutions have been involved with MIT and Boston technology firms. In the second Obama 2/n

Adminstration (not blaming at all only for dating purposes) MIT and Boston had numerous notable involvement with Russians from a notable kleptocrat stepping down from the MIT board of trustees to the FBI very publicly taking about Russian attempts to purchase sensitive 3/n

Technology through front companies in the Boston area. These Russian individuals and institutions at the time all had very close links to Russian security and Intelligence services. Even in the past couple years, MIT had come under criticism for some of their cooperation 4/n

With Russian institutions that are closely linked to the Russian security and Intelligence apparatus. So why do I mention this? Let's ask if there was similar treatment between Chinese and Russian actors. Generally speaking, there was pretty similar treatment for a very 5/n

Simple reason: both are active adversary states threatening the United States. If anything there is an argument to be made Chinese individuals and institutions are treated better than Russia even though they are a larger threat on multiple levels. The government treated 6/n

High risk individuals and institutions from both states similarly. MIT, to their credit and failings, treats high risk propaganda security and Intelligence money the same way: they can the check and don't worry about the fall out. Professors, to their utter shame because 7/n

Most academics are preening self involved hypocrites, will take about racism when Chinese money is involved but remain silent when Russian individuals or institutions are involved. If anything it seems like academics are being racist against white Russians. Given what we 8/n

Know about Russian and Chinese attempts to gather security and Intelligence information or technology, it is very difficult to see how these two are treated significantly differently. Maybe it's not racism just that both pose major threats?