People from Shanghai don't introduce themselves as Shanghainese unless they're liberals. But the point I'm getting at is that an attempt to draw a line between HK/TW and the rest of China and basing their identity on it is the result of liberal idpol. These people internalize every negative thing westerners say about them and need to create this distinction so that they can be "one of the good ones". It's why they have such a superiority complex towards the mainland and an inferiority complex towards Japan/the West.
People aren't dunking on TW/HK for their ethnicity or nationality, they're just shitting on a place run by liberals who also incredibly racist towards Chinese ethnic minorities. It's not like Hexbear users are busting out 12th century slurs for the Cantonese, this place is like the only anglo website that bans sinophobia, so this place is the only place where I'm pretty sure the dunking isn't secretly motivated by a deepseated prejudice against Hakka.
People from Shanghai don't introduce themselves as Shanghainese unless they're liberals. But the point I'm getting at is that an attempt to draw a line between HK/TW and the rest of China and basing their identity on it is the result of liberal idpol. These people internalize every negative thing westerners say about them and need to create this distinction so that they can be "one of the good ones". It's why they have such a superiority complex towards the mainland and an inferiority complex towards Japan/the West.
People aren't dunking on TW/HK for their ethnicity or nationality, they're just shitting on a place run by liberals who also incredibly racist towards Chinese ethnic minorities. It's not like Hexbear users are busting out 12th century slurs for the Cantonese, this place is like the only anglo website that bans sinophobia, so this place is the only place where I'm pretty sure the dunking isn't secretly motivated by a deepseated prejudice against Hakka.