PALACE spokesman Harry Roque Jr. aped his principal and suffered another bout of verbal diarrhea when he reduced people’s aversion toward vaccines manufactured in China into an issue of colonial mentality. He is joined by others in social media who seem to simplistically throw the logic of such resistance in the pit of racism as if it is an irrational, prejudiced bias against anything Chinese.

Indeed, Sinophobia has always been with us, and many scholars have made serious academic inquiries into it. It is a historical given, even as it is not as simple as many would like to think. It cannot be denied that the ethnic Chinese as a group has been the victim of marginalization in the past.

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