"wE dOn't hAtE thE Chinese PeOple, just THe cHIneSE GOvERNMEnt"

Fair enough, I waited it out, gave it a chance to see if it was true. It's not. It's just "I'm not racist but..." with more words. I'd be fine with it if it were true, since it's not- block. Cry about it elsewhere.
The basic problem with this phrase is it requires not knowing anything about China, particularly two key things-

#1 Every independent survey, data source, study- shows overwhelming support of the Chinese government by the Chinese people.
So right out the gate you have to deprive us of agency or claimed we are brainwashed about a system that we live in, that you don't, when we travel all over the world and are exposed to alternate systems. Some of us immigrate, some don't. Plenty like me prefer it here.
#2 "The Communist Party" There are 90 million Party members in China. Most are business people, in positions of influence, politicians or civil servants. That's a lot of people to hate. Those are our relatives and classmates. Want in? Do well in school you get invited- that's it.
Do I have problems with my government? Huge ones. Who doesn't have problems with their government? But a baseline for intelligent criticism is actually understanding how something works, why it works that way and what the mechanisms of change actually are.
Okay here, I'll give you an example. We look at American race issues in the context of slavery, the civil war, and the civil rights movement. Imagine trying to discuss that with someone who knew *nothing* about those things. But in China, it's just "Chinese mistreat minorities".
Well yes, no doubt about it. Do you think we just don't have a historical context for that? We have our own history of a sort of affirmative action- with horrible consequences for its "beneficiaries" and a vicious irrational backlash.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liangshaoyikuan
This is just one tiny niche subject- and it's huge, like similar issues in the West. But it's absolutely hopeless on any of these subjects to have conversations with outsiders about how we got here, and what's required for change when they have no knowledge beyond "China Bad".
(I'm not going to get into this subject because it's huge, but if you want more in English this is decent: https://www.duihuahrjournal.org/2019/09/two-restraints-one-leniency-part-i.html)
You can read up, then when someone says "Post Kunming the Two Restraints, One Leniency, ethnic knife policies and viral social media narratives like nutcake extortion turned Han Chinese against previously well regarded if disempowered ethnic groups" and know WTF is going on.
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