Except they don't know they fucked up and never will. This is right wing thinking, no matter how much these people protest the allegations.
Progressives don't get stuck on nonsense. Progressive choose progress over regression and learn from mistakes. This person does not have those qualities.
People have personal biases, good and bad. People have confirmation bias. It sounds like the immigrants biases have confirmed your biases.
Even if I were to ignore all of that, your experience is an anecdotal data point for me so my opinion that no government should be trust remains.
Given that I'm not attempting to replicate or advocate for any specific form of government this seems prudent.
For anyone still reading and is really bored, my personal belief is that the only path forward is an society that is governed by immutable mathematical agreements.
It's hard to describe what I have in mind in a comment as there are many interacting pieces that together create a system that requires no government, no leaders, no fake money and no ambiguity.
Someone told you not to trust either. Presumable not the same person, presumable American government told you not to trust China but that begs then question who told you not to trust the American government.
Further the meme implies one should trust the Chinese government presumably because an untrustworthy source told you not to which is a mentally stunted view.
Not being trapped under the direct influence of the Chinese government, there are clearly many of reasons not to trust that government either.
There is no reason to trust any government. A basic understanding of history should make it clear that this is true of any government that has ever existed.
I see it as, they're willing to consent for others.
Dressing provactively? They consent to you being raped.
Your body, my choice. I shall consent for you m'lady.
I suppose another way of looking at is they see women as property. Probably why the trans thing gets them all upset, their worldview means a trans female becomes their property and in their twisted minds, that's them being forced to take possession of something. Their imagined agency is being attacked.
Violence isn't the answer; it's the path.