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Is there wide-spread support of the protesters among the HongKong general public? Have their been polls conducted? I support Democracy and the HongKong proteste

Is there wide-spread support of the protesters among the HongKong general public? Have their been polls conducted? I support Democracy and the HongKong protesters, but I wonder whether the police actions reflect the broader public's consensus or not....[edit]I say this because it is hard for me to imagine the public NOT supporting the protestors, which would make the police actions against the protestors that much more a sign of impending oppression and influence of the Chinese government...

Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
Of the 7.4 million people who live in Hong Kong, between 338,000 (police count) and 2 million (organizer count) people took to the streets on June 16th alone. Here's a timelapse of one evening of protests (I couldn't find a palatable source so I rehosted it myself): https://yukari.sr.ht/hk-timelapse.mp4 https://yukari.sr.ht/hk-timelapse.mp4
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- microcolonel 7y ago
  Those clips make my every hair stand. It is a movement of unquestionable legitimacy. P.S. watching on Sway, thank you Drew.
yorwba 7y ago
This isn't necessarily a one-dimensional "protesters vs. police" conflict. People might well support the protest while simultaneously approving of the police reaction to violent protesters, or they might oppose violence by both protesters and police, and there's no reason why one couldn't hold all four opinions at once. That said I would welcome some statistics to clarify what the prevailing opinion is. (The turnout figures are impressive, but they can't say anything about what the rest of Hong Kong thinks.)
microcolonel 7y ago
Imagine fifty to one hundred million people protesting in the streets in the U.S; that's the rough range of credible ratios of protesters to overall population in Hong Kong.