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Re:'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video] by wumaodang on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @01:39PM (#26570469)
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.

Re:'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video] by Quillbert182 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @01:52PM (#26570658)
In Hong Kong it was a revolution. They weren't fighting for ambiguous policy change, they were fighting for independence.
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Re:'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video] by systemvoltage on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @02:24PM (#26571098)
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.

Re:'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video] by HKH2 on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:55AM (#26578621)
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)