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Making simplistic caricatures won't help the cause. There is a constitutional path towards having these demands discussed off the street, but some people have n
by pishpash 7y ago
Making simplistic caricatures won't help the cause. There is a constitutional path towards having these demands discussed off the street, but some people have no respect for process while denouncing the same of the other side. "My way or the high way." No sympathy for either side.
- sgjohnson 7y agoIs there? Because as far as I can tell, the protesters believe that they are under foreign occupation. And I tend to side with them? “Constitutional path”? Hong Kongs self rule has been gradually eroded since 1997.
- pishpash 7y agoThey can believe that rhetorical fantasy, but HK being a part of China isn't going to be re-litigated. Everything else is theoretically possible, though the more protests try to tear down the "one country" part (anti-Article 23, 2014 protests, etc.), the more the "two systems" part becomes endangered. That's a cold-headed assessment of what has been happening since 1997.