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Re:'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video] by Aunche on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @01:50PM (#26570626)
How is this a CCP talking point? If anything, the fact that Western HN commenters can't differentiate Hong Kong and the CCP actually paints the CCP as less violent than they actually are.
Re:'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video] by philsnow on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @02:21PM (#26571054)
> the fact that Western HN commenters can't differentiate Hong Kong and the CCP

This is not a fact. Do you have a citation?

edit: it's also a pretty vague statement that could be satisfied by finding any two people who "can't differentiate" between HK and the CCP. You didn't say "the majority of Western HN commenters".

Re:'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video] by Aunche on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @02:31PM (#26571197)
The comment I replied to was equating my defense of the Hong Kong police as "a CCP talking point." How else am I supposed to interpret it?
Re:'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video] by philsnow on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:05PM (#26571592)
> The comment I replied to was equating my defense of the Hong Kong police as "a CCP talking point." How else am I supposed to interpret it?

Not as equating HK with the CCP?

You wrote "How is this a CCP talking point?". I don't know if touting "only 2 deaths by HK police" is or isn't a CCP talking point, but it ignores the question of how many HK residents were extradited[0] to the mainland, never to be heard from again. So omitting that discussion makes it a statement favorable to the CCP (or at least neutral).

[0] if you even want to call the process "extradition" and not straight up "abduction"

Re:'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video] by Aunche on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:51PM (#26572090)
Also, the top comment who replied to me is using a single cherry picked clip of an officer speaking a couple Mandarin words as evidence that Hong Kong police are secretly CCP.

> I don't know if touting "only 2 deaths by HK police" is or isn't a CCP talking point, but it ignores the question of how many HK residents were extradited[0] to the mainland, never to be heard from again.

I explained why the film wasn't overly harsh to the Hong Kong police. This has nothing to do with the extradition bill.