A Toymaking "Chinaman" Answers Mr Bob Beckel

Background:  Fox News host Bob Beckel used a racial slur in a rant about China on 'The Five' July 10th.  "The Chinese are the single biggest threat to the national security of the U.S.," he said. "They have been, they will be and they can wait, they're very patient. Do you know what we just did? As usual, we bring them over here and we teach a bunch of Chinamen -- er, Chinese people -- how to do computers and then they go back to China and hack into us."... He continued: "Doesn’t anybody worry about these people? There’s billions of ‘em. And all they do is hack into our stuff, they send us cheap toys, all of which got lead in ‘em and they’re killing kids.“

Here's a toymaking Chinaman's answer to Mr Beckel.

Ironically as a toymaking ”Chinaman", I agree with Mr Beckel.    We the Chinese did make some cheap toys: like paper, printing press, gunpowder, compass.  During our millenia of
uncivilized isolation, we only by pure accidents managed to send these cheap
toys abroad to enable Western Renaissance, the Religious Reformation, great
navigational discoveries and the age of global conquests.  Some of these
cheap toys even killed people, we wish we could unmake them.   We definitely
should work on them more.

I also agree with Mr Beckel:  America was the birthplace of internet and computers, plus great many other worthier toys, and even some worthy ideas .   For these, the humble toymaking Chinese are deeply indebted to America.  

Mr Beckel's America was also a racist America, that out of all the worlds' people, singled out the Chinese for particular discrimination, legally barring the Chinese from both immigration and interracial marriage.  This semi-genocidal policy effectively erected a great divider between the Chinese and the Americans for three generations, and profoundly damaged America's national interest in the latter half of 20th century.  My earlier post explains this connection more fully.

In the first half of 20th century, the Chinese were betrayed by their former friends of millenia past, invaded, brutalized, murdered by the millions.  Their collective trauma was so extensive,  that many Chinese learned not to trust modernity and friendship.  Yet, the Chinese never forgot our American friends and allies in our dire need either.   Some Chinese still trusted in America, honoring America by becoming Americans, honoring America's principles as ambassadors of peace and equality, like Millie Vautrin and Robert O Wilson did in 1937 during the most trying circumstances.

These Chinese Americans have many faults, but shrinking from a challenge is never one of them.    In his own way, Mr Beckel is handing them a challenge: "Make Mr Beckel the last China-hating racist on media".     By rising to this challenge, they contribute to America's future, fortify America's peace and honor their Chinese heritage, toys and all.