What time is it? Watches and horology

I know. But I'm here to point out people's moral failings. Someone needs to. Especially when the person who started this argument is a Range Rover enthusiast blithely inflicting a devastated climate on his own child.

In cycling threads, a Range Rover enthusiast would be quite rightly challenged and filed under vermin. In this thread, which is mostly about luxury goods which illustrate the gap between rich and poor, and the problems of consumerism, nobody commented except me.

The Range Rover enthusiast also, I suspect, deliberately misinterpreted my posts to accuse me of racism. I think he did it because I'd challenged the morality and wisdom of buying a Rolex. I illustrated this point with my own purchase of a Rolex. He's proud of his Rolex. You can tell by the way he dresses that he wants to project an image of success. I undermined all that, so he labelled me a racist. Not one person here has criticised him. One person did say that I'm not a racist, thank you ejay. But you didn't. You joined the pile on. What does that say about you?

This shouldn't need spelling out, as kids become aware of it when they're 10 or 12, and every adult who reads a book or newspaper sees it many times a day. But I'll spell it out anyway:
Tenderloin argued I am racist because I said the Chinese steal IP and don't pay proper wages. Context is everything. The context of this thread is watches. The context of my posts was fake Chinese watches. So it was obvious that when I used the word 'Chinese', it was shorthand for the Chinese watch/luxury goods industry, not for 1.4 billion Chinese people. It's common knowledge that the manufacture of Chinese watches and luxury goods often involves stealing IP. The Rolex logo on a fake Rolex is stolen IP. It's common knowledge that Chinese consumer goods makers pay sweatshop wages. There are countless stories about it, for example the FoxConn suicides.

If Tenderloin was unsure about my meaning (he wasn't) the proper response would be 'that's not fair, not all Chinese do that'. But he went straight for the R word, in two posts. And you and many others had a pile on, because you enjoy bullying. That's it.