Its like Hillary walking into a working class kitchen for the first time.
They've been shielded from even critical support of China and other AES for so long they literally, not figuratively, literally cannot process that people exist that have beliefs that aren't Reddit Approved. They immediately assume it's bots or wumao. Human beings can't possibly hold these beliefs, so they must be Oriental hordes or actual robots.
there was so much snark in this thread I got a little carried away there, sorry. let's save it for another time in a calmer, in-group context
Look, there was friendly-fire in r/cth all the time, it was an assumed part of the deal, ans we are getting used to it again.