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.
Ngl, original chapo was pretty white cishet, but in the three years we’ve been stewing here we’ve gone through some pretty big demographic changes (also like a load of the users got transed)
Also worth noting that the majority of the sub literally just didn’t listen to the podcast because its bad - I’ve been here for years and I’ve literally never heard a full episode of it. But yeah the radical queer inclusivity of hexbear was what got and kept me in as opposed to any other internet space, and then the hexbears got me to actually read theory along the way.