Attempts at nuanced discussions about topics like the Ukraine war or Taiwan that don’t immediately tow the state department line seem to always get dismantled by emotionally charged responses like that.
When I see remarks like this I ask myself, why should I care?
It always come off like an attempt to refuse critical thinking and fall back into a Marvel good vs. evil worldview.
Libs love feeling like they’re the only educated, nuanced people in the room, so “opinion of person who claims to be from there” is like the intellectual empty calories of that feeling. It tastes like expert analysis but doesn’t deliver the substance of it.
I think what guided me towards an actual ideology over time was the ick from reading those types of posts, especially the China ones. I think if you care to understand why things are a certain way, the “common sense” statements immediately fall apart.