gosh dammit why did rms have to be right about something again? I hate it when that guy is right. Also I guess I'm going to have to start using crappy duck duck go and running a mail server, dammit.

Lao as in ren+lao. I guess I can't post characters in these comments :(((( I lived in China for most of my adult life, and return frequently. I have a Chinese wife and an mother-in-law living in the house. I was moved there by my company (first job out of college), and now practically every aspect of my life is tied to that country. I can read baihua, as well as wenyanwen and do so frequently in my spare time. I am a Sinophile, in general, but I'm not going to pretend things are perfect there. A lot about life in mainland China scares the living heck out of me. What I was referring to was extra-linguistic: to various hate-mongering websites that promote the wholesale ethnic cleansing of western China (usually "to prevent anti-Chinese minorities from potentially harming China's economic shift the its western borders in order to reduce dependence on American trade" and goes into tin-foil hat land from there), and, to a lesser extent, tracking and harassing foreigners in cities with small foreign populations. The usage of that suffix in my post was incidental.

1) They are missing most Chinese-language racial slurs, and are apparently not searching for Chinese characters. I think the results would be predominantly Chinese otherwise. I mean, how could they miss "waiguolao"? In China, hearing that word was my red flag to get indoors or to a cop as soon as possible. 2) I could find you literally thousands of websites calling for genocide in China (either against resident minority groups or towards immigrants in China) which don't use any ethnic slurs. Most of the ethnic slurs in China are condescending more than hateful (except those directed at the Japanese), and using more neutral terminology gives pro-genocide Chinese an air of legitimacy. I can remember when "nanlaowai", for example, was quite a popular blog, but their didn't use any racial slurs in spite of the constant demands for the ethnic purification of China. Chalk it up to cultural difference I guess.

Not bad, but I'm still waiting for the April 1st where MADD says "I've you've just had a couple beers, you're still probably good to go."