Race traitor: Oxford dictionary word of the year?

Instead the protesters are at best dupes, and at worst foreigner-loving race traitors, ashamed of being Chinese.

—The Economist, in Why Chinese officials imagine America is behind unrest in Hong Kong


British right-wing calls Prince Harry a race traitor for marrying a non-white. Chinese media calls HK protestors race traitors for protesting against the motherland. Just like all opponents of narrow nationalist-populist regimes are being denounced across the world—in Modi’s India, Erdogan’s Turkey, Putin’s Russia, and Trump’s USA.

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