Comment on Silenced and erased, Hong Kong's decade of protest is now a defiant memory
SleafordMod@feddit.uk 2 weeks agoThe “”“protests”“” were deeply unpopular among the majority of the residents of Hong Kong
I don’t think I ever read that when I read about the topic. Perhaps it could be true, but it could also not be true.
writing their protest signs in English (the most obvious tell that a “”“protest”“” is actually for the benefit of foreign audiences rather than being an organic movement of local people)
Just because they want to get the attention of English speakers, I don’t think that means it’s not an “organic movement of local people”. In Spain there are anti-tourism protests and they write “tourists go home” in English, because they want English speakers to receive the message. That doesn’t mean the protests are organised by some shadowy English speaking cabal, rather than Spaniards themselves.
In the first three days of the George Floyd uprisings, US police arrested more people than HK police had in six months.
Okay… I didn’t mention the US though and I don’t believe the US is a perfect country. I just think it’s plausible that some people in China (whether in Hong Kong or on the mainland) want to live in a democracy. Maybe not all of them want a democracy. But some may well do.
persecuting Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the Donbas region
Is this true? I know that Russia has alleged that Ukraine did such things. Maybe there are some Ukrainians who have done such things. Russia suggests that the Ukrainian state is responsible for such persecution though, and I haven’t come across anything suggesting the truth of that.
your white chauvinistic ass
You don’t know what my ethnicity is. You’re obviously upset about the UK for whatever reason, but that doesn’t automatically mean that your views are correct or moral. All you’re showing is that you’re very emotional.