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I’d like to believe that but just yesterday someone posted links to a Chinese news site showing lots of visible support for the pro government side. Lots of sig
by codezero 7y ago
I’d like to believe that but just yesterday someone posted links to a Chinese news site showing lots of visible support for the pro government side. Lots of signs in the city showing support and a fleet of fishing boats with signs. Even if this is pure propaganda it shows there is visible support (even if artificial).
- Macross8299 7y agoFishing boats could've been requisitioned from anywhere. Signs put up by party cadres. I think those are perhaps examples of propaganda that everyone on the ground there knows is false but are put up for the sake of the international media. I don't get the impression that there is much support for the pro-government side among HKers at all, from the couple I know living abroad.
- my_username_is_ 7y agoUpwards of 1 million people were at the protest this past Sunday. There's only a population of 7 million people in the entire SAR. That's the proportional equivalent of every man, woman &child in California, Oregon and Washington meeting in a single spot to protest something. Even if not everyone agrees on the exact details of what they're protesting, seeing that much passionate support behind a cause is a good indicator that the outrage is widespread.
- throwawayctyga3 7y agoSo 6 million people didn’t protest? Are they the silent majority?
- codezero 7y agoProbably: too old, too young, too occupied with some other life necessity, in the hospital, in school, or afraid. One million is absolutely astonishing to me. Last I heard it was ~200k people.
- ngcc_hk 7y agoIn there. Cf to 2003 the scale is higher and 200k is not. If you have a chance to look at those time lapse, 1 million is likely.
- computerfriend 7y agoWhat little visible support there is is manufactured. The supporting signs in the city are on the buildings of Chinese state-owned companies.