The only part of that that has to do with racism seems as likely to be existing racism adopting references to current events than any acceleration of it. The avoiding of shops in a Chinatown may be an overreaction, but there's no necessarily racist motivation, and in any case the idea that factual news about matters of current interest ought to be suppressed because some people might overreact in that way is ludicrous.
The idea kind of reminds me of Yahoo's Alibaba investment. It was successful. So successful that, in the end, it completely negated anything else that was going on at Yahoo.
You could make a fun argument that colonizing America had a similar kind of effect on Britain.
I'd say you were a lucky one. Persuading my contacts to move and explaining my rationale has been a long, arduous and still not quite complete process. People seem to struggle with envisaging how a lack of privacy will harm them personally.
>it sounds like he was doing it wrong.