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The circumstances of Britain's original forced takeover and colonization of Hong Kong in the Opium Wars are the greater evil to me. Righting that wrong after so
by lehi 6y ago
The circumstances of Britain's original forced takeover and colonization of Hong Kong in the Opium Wars are the greater evil to me. Righting that wrong after so long was always going to be painful.
By analogy: a violent drug-dealer shoots you, robs you, and then kidnaps your child at gunpoint. Years later, you manage to have the child returned, but in the interim they have been taught by their captor to hate you and resist rejoining their family. What do you do?
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- laretluval 6y agoWhat part of that was left unaddressed in 1997?
- ogogmad 6y agoThe people of Hong Kong aren't to blame for the original injustice, so why are they the ones being victimised?
- magicsmoke 6y agoThat's true, the people of HK were raised to believe in British values on conquered land then abandoned there when Britain couldn't hold it any longer. Britain should have repatriated them all instead of putting them through this mess. Even POWs are treated better than their home country denying any involvement or responsibility when their overseas outpost gets captured.
- ogogmad 6y agoRegarding your analogy, Hong Kong in this analogy should be a fully grown adult by now, and should have fully autonomy as a result.
- ginko 6y agoOnly it's not you that wants the child returned but the guy that invaded your house and is living there now.
- Der_Einzige 6y agoLmao. Talk to anyone from east or south east asia about their thoughts of the british (if they were part of a former colonized country) and the story will go something like this: "Well, the british weren't perfect but compared to Japan, or the 50 years of totalitarian warlords who ruled after, they were a paradise"