It does convey an image of anything coming out of from the mainland is bad. It even uses metaphors such as "The sect, which believes a mainland woman is the second coming of Jesus Christ and calls the Communist Party the “great red dragon”...to show an image of Red China rising and asserting it's rightful place in history to rule over HK or whatever place may be. It tugs into the readers heart of fear and awareness in which they've already been bombarded with.
It doesn't make everything coming out mainland is bad, because we r just talking about a cult here.
From how I see it, the article is mostly focused on the cult, different points of view, and what the cult was doing. There are only 2 worthy "mentions" in this article, but they don't seem to present anything than background info.
And as of or your example, I will just think those cultists are nuts when someone calls for the second coming of Christ , which is already ridiculous enough. And even using that "red dragon example" to say this is China bashing is incredibly pushing it. Ask yourself, how is that even actually bashing China (like, to imply what?) or actually making a statement against China?
When you examine these articles, one must be careful. You also need to consider, if someone is trying to look for things like these in every article to in order to nitpick, there's also something wrong with the intentions of the reader.
Often groups like those special interest groups in HK, certain political affiliates in the US do exactly these kinda things, and they aren't always right with what they do. and when some people always try to advertise himself to be "pointing hypocrisy", he doesn't know he in fact could be consitantly wrong about others for multiple occasions. I know you're trying to see from his point of view, and there's nothing wrong with different interpretations by different people, however when someone begins to use this as regular basis to attack groups of people, that is just sinister veiled behind a reason. If you think about it, how often does he have anything good to say about any group other than China?
If people start reading everything as a bias , they will be unable to read or accept anything with an open mind. Many people often find excuses and reasons to resist accepting other people and ideas, and often they deploy the reasons of conspiracy theory.
And finally Equation, my existence in this forum isn't to win any arguments over any members, everyone here have something valuable to share, and most people here are brighter and more learned than I am. I have learned equally valuable things from both you and him as I had learned from others. And even when you and I have our areas of disagreement, we can still joke about other things after, and I appreciate that. I also appreciate you standing from alternative viewpoint. However the main point I want to get across isn't you and I see the article differently. The main thing is using these things to generalize and attack groups, which is totally unnecessary, unclassy, uncalled for.
Anyway I am done talking about this.
