I just have an issue with the CCP and their apologists. That is primarily who people refer to when they say China. It is pretty common speech. Same when talking about America doing something, we refer to the US government primarily, not its people.

It's not the Chinese people, they are in general awesome people. It's the CCP.

"Why do so many people hate brutal, authoritarian governments?"

As a Chinese I want to say thank you for posting this. It's really ridiculous...

It’s the exact opposite. I don’t think anyone hates the Chinese people, just the CCP and primarily because it’s authoritarian and fast becoming the US’ main rival.

The CCP is not China, they have actively destroyed ancient Chinese culture bulldozing over historical sites to build strip malls…

It's the double standards, you know. Not being able to vote, and so... While the US and its war machine has lost track of destroyed countries in this last decades in an Orwellian permanent conflict.

But the bad guys are the chinese, who hasn't been involved in a war in 40 years.

My relationship with Chinese people is great. I have a chinese ex, whose mom is hyper critical of the CCP and hates communism. They’re not Han chinese, they’re one of the less desirable ethnicities, and they didn’t feel well treated. Anyways.

Authoritarian regimes are bad. The fact that this authoritarian regime has mongoloid/asiatic facial features is irrelevant. I hated GWB’s expansion of the security state and two senseless middle eastern wars, I hated Obama killing American citizens without trial, and I hated Trump’s… everything, basically, but admittedly withdrawing from Afghanistan was p cool. Stopped clocks etc.

Anyways it’s totally consistent with wanting a just world to also hate the largest authoritarian regime in that world. This “but what if it’s because you’re racist?!?!” line is an absurdity

Hating the CCP != hating Chinese people.

Amazing that this needs to be said...

Raise your hand if you hate the CCP and you have a Chinese ex. There is already one guy who said as much in this thread.

Because China is the number one threat to democracy and the US.

They also are responsible for stealing hundreds of billions of dollars of IP from the US every single year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_intellectual_pr...

And masters at stealing R&D and tech from US companies for their own use

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_spy_cases_in_t...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-hackers-took-trillions-...