Such comparisons are wildly inappropriate - and it has nothing to do with one's party identification. Decisions of ruthless authoritarian strongmen have affected real people, whose experience should not be undermined by petty political games.
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Editor-in-chief of pro-KMT newspaper UDN (once supposedly a paper of record), compares Tsai Ing-wen’s rule to rise to power of Hitler and Duterte, as part of the ridiculous Blue Camp trope that under the DPP Taiwan has become an elected dictatorship. vip.udn.com/vip/story/121152…
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The outrageous narrative of "green terror" which the KMT seeks to perpetuate undermines the importance of unpacking Taiwan's own authoritarian legacy and the tremendous progress in terms of #transitionaljustice achieved by the people of our archipelago-democracy.
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