Its not Chinese hate..
People always like to pull the race card..
It's not a race thing - I explicitly didn't mention race or racism once.
It's a Red Scare hangover. That's all it is.
People were okay with a Japanese company buying a German brand and manufacturing lenses with iconic names and lens designs - no one questioned that. And "Zeiss wobble" or all the early LTM Voigtlander lenses with irreparable haze? Teething problems at best.
Similarly, an American working in Scotland can make a direct copy of a Sonnar (too lazy to come up with his own designs!), and he was immediately lorded for the work he put in, even though only pre-production prototypes have gone out to a select few so far.
But when a Chinese guy (by which we really mean "Communist") does it? IP theft. Copies. Intrinsically sloppy. Low standards. Untrustworthy.
Same thing happened with the Soviets; look at how many people still call Kievs a "Russian" rangefinder (the clue's in the name, folks), or how FEDs and Zorkis are merely considered to be "Leica copies", while LTM Canons are usually heralded on their own merits. Or how the differences between Soviet LTM and real LTM was put down to "bad workmanship", but the differences between Nikon RF and Contax RF lenses (which were caused by the same problem) were acknowledged, understood, and not criticised.
Like I alluded to, McCarthy still has a
huge influence on how otherwise logical people approach things to this day.
