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Re:Hong Kong Protests Live Updates: Police Violence Puts Gov... by godzillabrennus on Thursday June 13, 2019 @09:51AM (#20174803)
This Hong Kong situation is based on abdication of their human rights to a government guilty of the most egregious democide in history.

The USA has a politically incorrect orange man in the White House who gets offended easily.

Not sure how you draw parallels here but happy to understand better.

Re:Hong Kong Protests Live Updates: Police Violence Puts Gov... by StavrosK on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:10AM (#20175005)
I disagree with the GP's equating the two, but there are events like outright murders of innocent people by police officers that never get protested in the US, except maybe by people in the black communities.

Those strike me like something that should be protested but isn't. In comparison, when years ago a police officer shot and killed a 16 year old for no reason in my country, there were outright riots and the officer is serving a life sentence.

Then again, I guess there are many things we don't protest.

Re:Hong Kong Protests Live Updates: Police Violence Puts Gov... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:57AM (#20175495)
> Those strike me like something that should be protested but isn't

We have elections. That gives our government a mandate to act and incentive to measure public opinion. There is a lot of progress needed on police reform, but don’t throw out the bounds we’ve made in the last decade alone.

Protest is prudent once democratic means have been exhausted, or to draw attention to an issue. Police violence already has the public’s attention. There is an ongoing debate around the proper solution, with trials around decriminalisation, special prosecutors, body cameras, et cetera going into play around the country.

We haven’t frequently seen 1/7th of a city rise up in protest because we have other ways of effecting change. Hong Kong did too. But Beijing doesn’t.

Re:Hong Kong Protests Live Updates: Police Violence Puts Gov... by StavrosK on Thursday June 13, 2019 @11:02AM (#20175542)
Sure, but don't underestimate how clear a signal protests send.
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Re:Hong Kong Protests Live Updates: Police Violence Puts Gov... by Macross8299 on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:42AM (#20175335)
I don't think "all Trump supporters hate immigrants" is a fair characterization, given that there are quite a few immigrants who are Trump supporters themselves.

also, Godwin's law?