which is basically someone who was cool with the apartheid and segregation and is vocally super racist against anyone who isn’t white

Lot of people don’t know this about Hong Kong, that it used to have basically an apartheid system under which British colonizers were subject to completely different laws than the Chinese population, and even had their own exclusive parts of the city where no Chinese were allowed to live.

Also the biggest irony of the so-called “pro-democracy” demonstrators in Hong Kong who were waving all those British flags is that there was no democracy under British rule. The British just appointed the colonial governor who ruled with an iron fist. There is more democracy now in HK than there was for 99% of the colonial era.

When there were anti-British protests in the 1960s in HK, the British colonial authorities just gunned down dozens of people. Compare that to the much more violent and much more extensive HK riots a few years ago when the police didn’t kill a single person.

I know they are a small minority but how any ethnically Chinese Hong Kongers can still be simping for the colonial era is something I will never understand.