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> If you add in a racial dimension, where the Hong Kong people are Asians willing to submit to "whites" while fighting back against other Asians, adds to that d
by yongjik 9y ago
> If you add in a racial dimension, where the Hong Kong people are Asians willing to submit to "whites" while fighting back against other Asians, adds to that disdain.
This sounds uncomfortably close to Imperial Japan's concept of "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (大東亜共栄圏)", i.e., Asians should unite together and defend themselves against Western aggressors. Under some Asian banner, of course.
Oppression does not become more tolerable just because it's inflicted by "the same people".
- fatjokes 9y ago> Oppression does not become more tolerable just because it's inflicted by "the same people". Agreed, but it shouldn't be less tolerable either, which is more of the point.