Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
by vertex-four on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:26AM
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There's a reason some portion of the left is pretty intolerant of the current situation - it literally results in violence to people who don't even share their opinions in the first place.
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Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
by throw51319 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @01:15PM
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The "current situation" is not as clear-cut as many would make it out to be. Watching an emotional video is not the smoking gun that shows one side to be completely right, but that's what's happening now.
I would think a good write up/analysis using high quality statistics would be the way to decide what is happening in the "current situation".
But a graphic and emotional video is going to pull the strings much harder.
Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
by vertex-four on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @01:37PM
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A lot of people have been trying "good write-ups" and "high quality statistics" for a long time, it turns out they don't actually change people's minds - people make up their mind before reading the article. The production of "high quality statistics" hasn't been the turning point in any civil rights movement I'm aware of.
Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
by throw51319 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @04:17PM
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Yeah - and i'm just saying that it should be, instead of an emotional response etc.
Re:Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents
by vertex-four on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:59AM
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For what it's worth, I've read the statistics, I've read the counterpoints to the statistics, I believe based on them that there is a right-wing violence problem in the US and some other specific places.