Talk:Taiwanball/@comment-29512319-20190521115254/@comment-29512319-20190523091414

Hey thanks, I suppose my views are quite unorthodox compared to most people but I can see a lot of the commenters here have never even read a book. They just like to think they know what they're talking about because they've heard the popular Western narrative which to them means they're "correct" and immune to propaganda. I strongly support indigenous rights so I always found it extremely hypocritical the way the pro-Taiwanese narrative is spun as a small victimized minority against Big Bad China when Taiwan is home to the KMT - a party which gladly oppressed millions on the mainland with US support and Taiwan is literally colonial state which enacted mass violence over the centuries against the Taiwanese Aboriginals. But that type of history is often swept under the rug to generate sympathy for Taiwan. People won't shut up with their "Taiwan is the real China" meme even though it had nothing to do with China until the last 400 years. Nobody really talks enough about how Taiwan is the homeland of the Austronesian languages, how Taiwan is the home to all branches of Austronesian languages except for the Malayo-Polynesian languages, and how many of Taiwan's Austronesian languages are endangered (if they haven't already gone extinct).