Talk:Taiwanball/@comment-29512319-20190521115254

There's a lot of irony involved with the crazed Taiwanese nationalists who want to "liberate" Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, etc. from the CCP to allow minorities self-determination when Taiwan itself is more Han Chinese than mainland China itself. There's not a peep from them about how the Taiwanese Han violently displaced Taiwanese Aboriginals and reduced them to being minorities, instead opting for the sugarcoated narrative that the two groups simply underwent extensive inermarriage which fused their bloodlines so now they too are "indigenous" Taiwanese (genetic testing has even shown that this is largely false but it continues to be used extensively in Taiwanese "blood nationalist" propaganda). There are some even crazier Taiwanese nationalists out there on those fringe websites. Such as the ones who deny Japan ever commited any war crimes in Asia due to their Japanophilia. They like to believe the atrocities are all "communist propaganda" so they treat the Rape of Nanking or Unit 731 as hoaxes but think the 228 Incident was the end of the world.

The Taiwanese Aboriginals still have strong dislike and mistrust towards the Taiwanese Han majority because the Han discriminate against them. Hell, when most people hear "Taiwanese", the first image that appears into their head is an ethnic Chinese person and not an Austronesian. Speaking as an indigenous American, I deeply sympathize with the Taiwanese Aboriginals and if it were up to me I would remove all Chinese from Taiwan to make it an Austronesian ethnostate lmao. There are also issues within the Han population of Taiwan where the Hakka and Waishengren fear Hoklo chauvinism, and the islands of Kinmen and Matsu outright reject any form of Taiwanese independence as it would theoretically erase their own identities...which are actually older than the Taiwanese identity as they were settled by the Han Chinese before Taiwan was.

The international world loves to portray Taiwan as a victim and as a cause célèbre for the anti-China crowd, rather than a colonial state in itself. I have even been seeing people act like the ROC and the KMT were the "good guys" rather than notoriously corrupt US-funded dictatorships that the majority of people chose to oust. People can hate the CCP all they want, but this isn't a case of history where the "bad guys" won - China was being screwed whichever way it went. Honestly, I don't see mainland China or Taiwan being the "real China" because the "real China" was only ever just a figment of Orientalist imagination. This bizarrely enthusiatic support for Taiwan reminds me of how much the Falun Gong is coddled by the West even though it promotes pseudo-science and pseudo-history along with racism and homophobia (literally got told once by a Falun Gong loon that race mixed kids were going to hell). But hey, they hate the CCP so let's support them!