Flamewar comments like this will get you banned here, regardless of which side you're flaming for or against, or what about. They make discussion reliably terrible, such as in the thread below. No more of this please. You also broke the site guidelines egregiously in other ways. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules.

Edit: we've had to warn you about this repeatedly in the past. If you continue to abuse the site like this we will have to ban you, so please fix this.

Is it not healthy to be critical of both Western influenced narratives AND CCP influenced ones?

They simply said there is a brigade of "america bad, china good"

Also, this film is about Hong Kong. Talking about things the US doesn't do well steers us off topic. We have plenty of other threads to do that in.

> They simply said there is a brigade of "america bad, china good"

And there isn't, but there are comments that refuse to jump to shallow thinking and consider how we'd see the protests, reactions and outcomes had they happened elsewhere. That's very different though.

Why are we treating this as an either/or? China and America largely use the same tactics to suppress protest, and they're bad in both places.

The only significant difference is that in China, the media suppression comes from the government, and in America, it comes from the leaders of the media itself.