And for a Chinese to protest heavily, this is not like a Canadian maybe losing money and his job for standing up, this is more like going to a gulag or otherwise being "disappeared".
Am I overstating it? Maybe the opposite. Look up "forced organ harvesting" in China. It happens to political dissidents, Uyghurs, Falun Gong, Tibetans, and other "troublesome" groups.
This is one of the reasons I can't support Antifa's Neo-marxist ideology. Crony capitalism sucks, but I'll take it over CCP Communism, which, like covid, is more about social control
Marxism leads to totalitarianism in practice (otherwise, how to get those to totally disagree with you to follow your plan?), which is centralization of power which is bad for citizens
One of the biggest threats to our civilization today is that so many people do not understand this, or that their little clever plan for humanity will be one step in this direction.
One would think it could be explained to them, but this is not so. Only a small minority will actually listen to reason alone, the rest base decision on groupthink and autorities
Folks are more concerned with filming a racial epithet to share on social media than the worker's rights abuses required to manufacture the iPhones they're filming with. Priorities?
Btw, I see now that I seem to be replying to something slightly different than what you said. Well, too late to change now, and maybe this info is still useful.
It wasn't so long ago we were trying to support the masked students pulling down surveillance towers in HK. They've in all likelihood, been sent to reeducation camps.
