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A comment on Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored by Chinese students'. Parent comment

Re:Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored... by seanmcdirmid on Friday August 02, 2019 @01:35PM (#20594864)
My point was that I moved from China back to here to avoid stuff like that for my kid, and am disappointed that things have changed for the worse since I was a kid growing up in the same area.

It is a “small thing” of course compared to comprehensive political education, but it is a thing and signals the start of a trend that could turn out to be dangerous (doubly so in this age of Trump-style ultra nationalism).

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Re:Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored... by socialist_coder on Friday August 02, 2019 @07:39PM (#20597586)
> it is a thing and signals the start of a trend

Saying the pledge of allegiance in school has been around since I was a kid in the 80s though, and I'm fairly certain it's been this way since basically forever. So IMO it doesn't seem like it's the "start" of anything.

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Re:Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored... by seanmcdirmid on Saturday August 03, 2019 @09:56AM (#20600416)
There was no pledge said at my schools in the 90s.
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