The entire project here is so cynical. "We have to end foreign aid until we fix unemployment and bad schools!"

ok are you working to fix those problems?

"No."

As usual the "economic anxiety" argument is being deployed to whitewash the odious views of wildly privileged people who want to get into power and make thing even worse for the poor. If this kid is racist it's because he's racist, it's not because he's struggling.

all of the calls for "moderating on trans issues" are just an excuse to launder the author's own bigotry into the political sphere

do the right thing and tell them to go to hell, support trans rights

All part of Hong Kong's strategy to be a global hub of "fuckin' yikes".