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.
At least attribute the quote. This was Marx right 'The material dialectic of history has concluded without question that one must either produce the hog, or failing that remove oneself from dialectical analysis entirely'