CascadeOfLight
@CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net
- Comment on Silenced and erased, Hong Kong's decade of protest is now a defiant memory 2 weeks ago:
Bruh; I posted this six months ago, how did you even find it? Did you scroll my entire comment history until you could find a single thing to concern-troll at?
Anyway, the “”“Hong Kong protests”“” were started in response to a security bill that would make it easier to extradite criminals back to the mainland, as there were several loopholes in the way mainland and Hong Kong criminal codes lined up that needed to be closed. The incident that made it clear this was necessary, was a criminal who murdered and dismembered his pregnant girlfriend, fled to Hong Kong and then couldn’t be returned home to face trial.
So, keeping that guy from facing justice was the context in which everything else has to be considered. The “”“protests”“” were deeply unpopular among the majority of the residents of Hong Kong. The protesters themselves, as well as being frequently racist against mainlanders, displayed an extreme nostalgia for the British control of Hong Kong, waving UK flags and 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). It’s important to note that under British rule… there was no democracy. Afterwards, a lot of “”“protesters”“” “”“fled”“” to the UK, where a large number of them now live in destitution due to the UK’s atrocious cost of living and the fact they’re no longer useful imperial puppets.
In the first three days of the George Floyd uprisings, US police arrested more people than HK police had in six months. By the end of the first week US police had also killed more people (directly involved in the protests that is, on average daily US police murders would constitute a civil war in any other country) than had died during the HK protests, three in total: one protester who fell off a rooftop, one old man who was a street-sweeper that got hit in the head with a brick thrown by a protester, and one mainlander businessman who was doused in gasoline and set on fire by protesters.
Also in attendance, unaccountably, were various Ukrainian neonazis who, for some reason, were super invested in these astroturfed protests about a highly specific local legal matter.
Here’s some bozo from the Azov battalion, the most vicious of the neonazi paramilitaries, posing in Hong Kong (and him again later, after he was partially denazified while persecuting Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the Donbas region). Sending in Ukrainian fascist mercenaries is usually a good sign that the imperial intelligence apparatus is involved.
Lastly, not only do the Chinese people feel (correctly) that their political system is more democratic than the people of the UK think theirs is, they also think democracy is more important than the population of the UK does
So maybe take this into account when your white chauvinistic ass starts spouting regurgitated bullshit about what other people around the world, people your empire subjugated, really want.
- Comment on Silenced and erased, Hong Kong's decade of protest is now a defiant memory 6 months ago:
“Your comment […] was removed. Reason: Rule 6.”
How is it off-topic to point out that the Hong Kong ‘’‘protesters’‘’ were a gaggle of CIA-backed stooges supported by literal fascist mercenaries from the Empire’s other imperial project?
- Comment on Silenced and erased, Hong Kong's decade of protest is now a defiant memory 6 months ago:
The other people getting silenced and erased are all the Ukrainian Nazis who mysteriously ended up at the protests there, before returning to Ukraine and getting denazified.
