hugr
Honestly it's not worth asking it on MN because you'll get all those who say it's not racist because it doesn't personally offend them and they've used the term before, and completely ignoring any reasonable discussion about why things might be racist even if they don't overtly cause offence or harm.
Simonjt
This is MN, unless it’s the N word people will be falling over themselves to defend racism and explain why they think it isn’t racist, such as “I have an imaginery Chinese friend”.
People who sensibly point out racism will be called woke, a snowflake and generally mocked. Odd that racists don’t like being called racist, especially when they obviously see racism as a good thing.
So true. These kinds of threads never go well because few will accept the inherent racism in the West and their participation in it.
Because "many martial arts come from China", let's lump them all together and persist in using this negative term 