New Yorker Talk / How does maintaining national security become "disguised anti-Chinese"?

After being signed by the governor earlier this month, the bill aimed at restricting the purchase of real estate in the state by citizens of "hostile countries" headed by China will take effect on July 1 this year. Recently, some civic organizations have launched legal challenges to the Florida government to attack the implementation of the law.

The Florida bill not only delineated several "hostile countries", but also directly named a series of prohibitions tailored for citizens of the "People's Republic of China". insulting. No wonder the civic groups suing the state directly complained that "this is simply the 'Chinese Exclusion Act' of the new era."

Florida, Texas, and South Carolina have also introduced similar proposals before, all labeled as "national security", but they really cannot stand scrutiny. Indeed, the Chinese authorities' increasingly provocative, aggressive, infiltrating, and undermining of the free world and the international order are not groundless, and totalitarian forces such as China and Russia have also taken advantage of the characteristics of freedom in Western countries to destroy the dark history of freedom and democracy. However, the United States and China have not officially declared war and still maintain formal diplomatic relations.

Under such circumstances, maintaining "national security" on U.S. soil can only be the responsibility of intelligence agencies in a legal sense. Local civil authorities use this as an excuse to engage in "McCarthyism" targeting certain nationalities. It is suspected of violating the constitution.

Taking a step back, one cannot deal with hooligans in the same way as hooligans. This is the basic decency that civilized people should possess. It cannot be denied that there are Chinese spies on American soil, but the logic of depriving the rights of the entire Chinese community because of individual saboteurs like Florida is the same as that of the CCP government depriving the entire ethnic group of their rights because of the behavior of individual extreme Uighurs. What's the difference between a million people in concentration camps?

The Japanese concentration camps during World War II are not far behind, and I hope the United States will not repeat the same mistakes. Otherwise, if you lose your morality, you will also lose your heart.