When Morrissey made controversial statements about immigration, I didn't join those who called him a racist, though I did disagree with his statements. I thought it was pathetic that he ended up bribing some stupid leftist group to get them to stop calling him a racist (a group that published articles defending Muslim jihadists violently attacking people and threatening newspapers over some Danish cartoons of Muhammad).
Though I disagreed with his views on immigration, I didn't feel he said anything that was beyond the pale, and it was simply a difference of opinion that decent folks can have. Though Morrissey is rarely one to be as tolerant of others having differing views, I hate it when leftoids try and shut down everyone they disagree with by screaming, "You're a raaaaaacist!!" (see, for example, the way leftists in America are trying to silence the Tea Party movement's concerns about taxes, Obamacare, the stimulus, bail-outs, Big Government in general, and the failing policies of our current single-party Democrat rule).
But going on about how Chinese people as a whole group are a sub-human species sounds like something I'd hear at a neo-Nazi event. It's probably something I'd excuse from a drunk person ranting at a bar, but it's not so excusable from someone drinking orange Fanta and speaking on the record to a Guardian interviewer with a recording device.
Maybe he just said it to get in the news again, as he has a pattern of saying controversial remarks when he wants to get in the news. But this comment was really stupid. And, yes, racist.