Here I'm fully with you, just like the US is more than Trump, the UK is more than BoJo, the Phillippines are more than Duterte, etc. HK is more than Carrie Lam. That's exactly why nationalism and even patriotism is such a bad idea.
Now the quote of the Fox commentator. He says:
(underlined the part we can probably all more or less agree to and bolded the part where clearly he went off the rails).Commentator: "What are we going to do about China? What are we going to do about a totalitarian dictatorship where it's ok to sell virus infected BATS in open air market places and then have business travel and tourist travel between THAT country and the CIVILISED world?"
John Oliver: Whoah whoah whoah, that escalated quickly. He moved from the vaguely dog-whistly "what are we going to do about China" to "it's not part of the civilised world" at lightning speed.
Sorry, but how is "between THAT country and the civilised world" ok?
The world most certainly should, but lack of hygiene is not the same as uncivilised. China had a civilisation of sorts (as you recognise) way before western "civilisation" was introduced to the American Indians (for which I have no doubt they are immensely grateful). It doesn't make them perfect, but it certainly doesn't make them uncivilised, and to call them that (as the commentator did) is simply ignorant.The world needs to carefully consider some of China's practices, lack of hygiene, animal and human rights abuses.
Again, let's not confuse one with the other. Lack of hygiene is not the same as civilisation, proper concern about totalitarian dictatorships is not the same as lack of racism, and Fox is not the same as journalism.