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fivethirtyeight.com: "That MSG causes health problems may have thrived on racially charged biases from the outset."

Yeah, sure. Couldn't have just been the usual, nonsensical intellectual fashion of the sophisticates ("ooh, chemicals are so bad!"). No, today's nonsensical intellectual fashion of sophisticates ("oooh, racism explains everything!") has finally figured out what was wrong with yesterday's nonsensical intellectual fashion....

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You started an unnecessary but wretched flamewar with this comment, and broke the site guidelines by doing so. (And again by perpetuating it, along with others below.)

Could you please review and follow them in the future? They include "Eschew flamebait" and "Don't be snarky."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

No, a significant part of it (in the UK) has definitely been stereotypes around Chinese food being somehow 'dodgy'.

Clearly racism doesn't 'explain everything' and the forces you mention played a part, but you're the only one who brought up that strawman. (You should think carefully about why you're so desperate to disingenuously downplay the effects of racism on modern attitudes.)

Personal attacks are not ok on HN and we ban accounts that cross into that zone repeatedly. Can you please edit such bits out in the future? Your comment makes your point just fine without that last sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Disclaimer: I'm married to a Chinese person, I speak (some) Chinese, I've been to China. I love Chinese food.

There's no racism in claiming that quite a lot of the "Chinese" food one finds available in Europe is indeed quite dodgy.

Best thing I have read on the internet in quite some time. Thank you.

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