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2026-05-01 16:02 UTC
@reflex@retrogaming.social @cxiao@infosec.exchange @mayintoronto@beige.party
My family is from HK you can say I was born with bias against China. If you've lived in China, you've experienced more of the Chinese reality than I have.
What I can say though is that HK is also a mirror for the world and what happens when rights disappear.
A newspaper can get raided and closed overnight. Religious leaders are put in prison. Young people didn't get killed like they did in 89 but many are in prison or exile now.
Having said all of that, with everything happening in the US and threat of that fascism coming to Canada, my partner and I had a real conversation about where to take our chances in life. We discussed Taiwan as a possibility, but what if it gets invaded? And in the end, as Han looking people, we figured our chances are higher in a yellow man dictatorship over a white man dictatorship. The sad reality being that at least as part of the ethnic majority, we shouldn't be first under the bus.
The sad state of our conversations these days.
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@reflex@retrogaming.social 2026-05-01 16:21
@chu@climatejustice.social @cxiao@infosec.exchange @mayintoronto@beige.party An issue that always bothers me, both inside China and outside, is the conception of Chinese as one people, one ethnicity when it's a nationality. My wife's village is not Han, but her identity card says they are because when Mao took power her grandfather was tasked with writing a history of their village. He wrote a Han history as their people were literally called "Dog people" by the Han, and the mainland is Han-supremacist.