Well this was a fun interaction. Calling people out for saying something racist, makes me the real racist, and a strawman-ing dictator lover, apparently.
Saying “this white man’s house remodelling looks like a brown man did it!” Isn’t the sick own you think it is…
Probably that the commenter was talking about all Middle Easterners/Asians when they were really just talking about their dictators like Saddam Hussein, Bashar al-Assad (not a dictator, but you just know the commenter thinks he’s one), or Muammar Gaddafi (again, not a dictator or even Middle Eastern, but try telling libs that). I’d be surprised if the commenter even knows that the Middle East is really West Asia.
Basically, “I hate the government, not the people”. I’d be surprised if it even occurred to any of them that it could be racist.