KMT presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih said on Saturday that a vote for the DPP was equivalent to "sending everyone out to the battlefield" because supporting Taiwan independence would touch off a war.

What's happening in Taiwan? Why did a presidential candidate said something like this? In another country, a presidential candidate telling people to not supporting their own country's sovereignty would be a political suicide.

[–] ArthurParkerhouse@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Believe it or not, a lot of younger Taiwanese people want to rejoin the mainland. Not exactly a majority yet, but it's getting pretty close.

[–] SomeGuyNamedPaul@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Foreign influence operations exist because they work.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's a dogwater (approaching racist) argument and you know it.

[–] blindsight@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not parent poster, but I didn't read that at all. International propaganda works, and has the potential to destroy democracy in America (and lots of other countries, too.)

What am I missing?

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They're implying that the people who live there can't make a decision for themselves, in other words a white guy overseas with zero stake in the matters thinks they know more about the reality than the people who actually live there, which is a very disrespectful prospective.

The racism comes from the long history of white people doing this to peoples who choose for themselves in ways that they don't agree with. It's never that they chose for themselves but always that someone else (usually malicious) came in and made the decision for them.

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