Let’s start with the conclusion: you can go to a Chinese for lunch or dinner, but not to go shopping with a Chinese. That is to say, in the second case it is concluded that it is stigmatized, because they are locals who are presupposed to have a heritage of everything and, therefore, of poor quality. On the other hand, you can say you’re going to fuck a Chinese person with the same peace of mind as if you said you’re going to eat pizza with an Italian person, make some yakisoba with a Japanese person, and swallow your ribs with an Argentinian.

We have reached this point thanks to the debate opened by a controversy that arose in X for the posters “I’m not the Paki on the corner” or “I’m not the Chinese from below the house”, drawn up by two students in Barcelona and stuck mainly in shops groceries

“Supermarket or bazaar”, proposes as examples @taniaverge, Minister for Equality, instead of those two designations, while congratulating the creators of an initiative that, under the label

“Discriminations”. Not everyone sees them. Nor that it is politically incorrect: “When we used to say Valencian, French or Russians (those on Calle Ponent, in the 40s and 50s, the Klausnitzers), was that also micro-racism?”, explains the writer @EnricGoma; “It is a purely descriptive language. (…) You see racism where there is none”, says @TabareMoreyra.

The fact that the students’ posters were originally written only in Spanish, and not in Catalan, is also a prejudice for many tweeters, because, they argue, it presupposes that the owners know one language and not the other. (The initiative’s Instagram currently makes the download available in Catalan.)

Some users raise the most difficult question yet: what do we do with the shops where you can find everything and which are advertised with large signs with a red background and white letters China Mercado, Bazar Chino or El Corte Chino? Or also Paki Pan? Can we say I go in Chinese or Paki?

Barcelona City Council undertook a similar campaign in 2019 that raised some dust. But while we wait for the judge García-Castellón to conclude, as @isufbenyusuf says, that M. Rajoy is Pedro Sánchez, and already resolved that reggaeton is the unnatural regression of AC/DC’s You shook me all night long, as that in X there are few new topics left to debate, let’s recover from old ones.