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In DC, it was a riot, but in Hong Kong it was merely a protest, right? And only in one of those cities were there gasoline bombs thrown on the street.

Quillbert182 6y ago
In Hong Kong it was a revolution. They weren't fighting for ambiguous policy change, they were fighting for independence.
- wumaodang 6y ago
  If you listen to them, they say they're not separatists... But if they were that's all the more reason for there to be criminal penalties for their actions. And you better hope the same happens in the US when the FBI goes after the "Boogaloo Boys."
  - systemvoltage 6y ago
    You need to get recalibrated. 25% of the people of HK were involved in protests in some form or the other. Boogaloo Boys do not consist of 80 million US citizens. They're a fringe group trying to be a militia. HK citizens were violent because their voices were not heard, they're not a militia, nor are they fighting to oppress and upend democracy, they're fighting for the exact opposite.
    - HKH2 6y ago
      The people who were violent were definitely nowhere near 25%, most probably not even 5%. You can see in video after video that they're mostly young people (20s), and their message was "burn with us" [1]. Carrie Lam withdrew the bill and that still wasn't enough for them. Realistically, they were never going to get the 5 demands met, and it was clear they wanted to incite police violence. There were plenty of people, especially those who were a bit older and those who owned small businesses who wished they would go away, and the national security law has guaranteed that. I know HK culture is quite separate from Mainland culture in quite a few aspects, but I can't see how any of the violence has helped. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_chau_(doctrine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_chau_(doctrine)

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In DC, it was a riot, but in Hong Kong it was merely a protest, right? And only in one of those cities were there gasoline bombs thrown on the street.

by wumaodang 6y ago

Quillbert182 6y ago
In Hong Kong it was a revolution. They weren't fighting for ambiguous policy change, they were fighting for independence.
- wumaodang 6y ago
  If you listen to them, they say they're not separatists... But if they were that's all the more reason for there to be criminal penalties for their actions. And you better hope the same happens in the US when the FBI goes after the "Boogaloo Boys."
  - systemvoltage 6y ago
    You need to get recalibrated. 25% of the people of HK were involved in protests in some form or the other. Boogaloo Boys do not consist of 80 million US citizens. They're a fringe group trying to be a militia. HK citizens were violent because their voices were not heard, they're not a militia, nor are they fighting to oppress and upend democracy, they're fighting for the exact opposite.
    - HKH2 6y ago
      The people who were violent were definitely nowhere near 25%, most probably not even 5%. You can see in video after video that they're mostly young people (20s), and their message was "burn with us" [1]. Carrie Lam withdrew the bill and that still wasn't enough for them. Realistically, they were never going to get the 5 demands met, and it was clear they wanted to incite police violence. There were plenty of people, especially those who were a bit older and those who owned small businesses who wished they would go away, and the national security law has guaranteed that. I know HK culture is quite separate from Mainland culture in quite a few aspects, but I can't see how any of the violence has helped. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_chau_(doctrine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_chau_(doctrine)