Idk, I’ve been much more civil than you.

Haha, no.

Probably has to do with the fact my views on china aren’t as rosy as the sinophiles here on lemmy.

The classic western liberal thing of pretending that any other westerner who sides with the empire's enemies must simply be doing it out of some kind of contrarian fetishism or pseudoreligious mania. Whatever the reason you decide, it can't possibly be that the communist is in his right mind, because that's a terrifying prospect you have no answer for.