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Here is the video [1] with complete context. Unfortunately I've yet to find a complete translated transcript. But from what I've read (from potentially unreliab
by rjf72 7y ago
Here is the video [1] with complete context. Unfortunately I've yet to find a complete translated transcript. But from what I've read (from potentially unreliable sources) the casters said 'Go ahead and say those 8 words and we'll wrap up here. There's nothing else to talk about. Let's lower our heads.' He then said 'Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our time' while wearing a gas mask. Guessing that's 8 words in Mandarin. They then laugh and clap.
This is actually the thing that most frustrates me about these protests and issue in general. Finding complete, in context, recordings of the critical events is so incredibly difficult. This makes no sense since we are now in an era where everything is on camera from 500 different angles. But it is what it is. And of course providing in context video gets downvoted, because it makes the issues look less black and white. But that to me is the clearest example of idiocracy. We should not seek to create Hollywood villains and heroes in how things are presented. People should make judgments based on reality which, almost invariably, is more of a million shades of gray rather than good vs evil, right vs wrong.
[1] - https://youtu.be/KyxO0Ea1_kM?t=2152 https://youtu.be/KyxO0Ea1_kM?t=2152
- PavlovsCat 7y agoThank you so much for that! And I agree, even though I do support the protests in HK in their five demands, there is no need to exaggerate or cut away context, ever, and it happens habitually. Yet, trying to be fair, just adding very relevant information, often gets one put onto a "side" and treated accordingly. This, too, needs to be resisted. > Constructive criticism and self-criticism are extremely important for any revolutionary organization. Without them, people tend to drown in their mistakes, not learn from them. -- Assata Shakur > These people don’t see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you. Make a habit of imprisoning Fascists without trial, and perhaps the process won’t stop at Fascists. -- George Orwell, http://orwell.ru/library/novels/Animal_Farm/english/efp_go http://orwell.ru/library/novels/Animal_Farm/english/efp_go
- vegan_zaddy 7y agoIt's ironic that you appropriate two socialists that would most likely support the CPC and denounce the reactionaries in HK.