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No one doubt this protest is about losing relevance of Hong Kong resulting in house, education and health problems. I am the one saying the original title and
by dragonsh 7y ago
No one doubt this protest is about losing relevance of Hong Kong resulting in house, education and health problems.
I am the one saying the original title and Twitter is fake news. Indeed it is conflating the facts to foment protest.
If there is a protest in New York and national guards are having something in Philadelphia, anyone can conflate the facts to make it national guards summoned to end violent protest in NY.
- reissbaker 7y agoThe "five demands" of the protest are: * Withdraw the extradition bill * Carrie Lam resigns * Protests are not categorized as riots * Full independent inquiry into the police * Release of imprisoned protestors Nothing to do with housing or any of your other claims. And it is hard to believe the army being summoned to Shenzhen (just across the HK border) or "leaking" videos of training to use force against people dressed as HK protestors is a random accident.
- dragonsh 7y agoThis is what is visible symptoms. Not the underlying root cause. When solving a bug in technology, it needs a root-cause analysis to fix. The root problem of all these protests in HK are house, education and health issues faced by over 40% of population. I have been a part in past of peaceful protest in Hong Kong without masks and anti-riot gears. Walked from Victoria park in Causeway bay to central offices. I do understand its difficult to follow fearless strategy like Gandhi's non-violence by most. But I am a believer of non-violence and follower of its principles. A protest or cause lose its relevance when there is a violence in it, however small. Gandhi never defended violent protest nor asked for release of violent protestor, the demand itself is in contravention of the non-violent protests.