This is some shoddy coverage by the Washington Post, which misses the point of today's enormous march, and the reason it turned destructive. Hong Kongers were marching to ask America to pass a specific law, the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Acthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/hong-kong-protesters-call-on-trump-to-liberate-hong-kong/2019/09/08/4123008c-d215-11e9-9610-fb56c5522e1c_story.html …
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The Guardian, sadly, has an equally bad article out. Today's event was a specific request for the US to pass a specific law, but reporters have Trump on the brain.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hong-kong-protesters-call-on-donald-trump-to-liberate-territory …
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The silver lining of all this is, if you're a US person, you should call your representative and ask them to pass the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. It has broad bipartisan support! If we can move it through Congress quickly, it will help to deter Chinese intervention
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I will add as a coda that the only violence against people in these protests comes from the police. Tonight we had a major shopping area full of families tear gassed for no reason, a medic shot in the foot, and a press photographer targeted at close range with a tear gas grenade
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It's morning in America (just like Reagan promised), so won't you please take a few minutes to contact your representative, and urge them to pass the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act? A phone call is always best. It is a small, important thing we can do to help Hong Kong
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I wouldn't say the "high road" got us nothing in 2019. Without the million people marches we wouldn't have been where we are now either. They were the things that got us frontpage news in the first place. 2014 peaceful occupation also gave most Westerners good impression of HKers
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I agree that the large, peaceful protests are essential. But I do not think they would be enough on their own, just as I do not think violent protests would be enough without the large peaceful ones. The two together are very powerful.
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I wrote a thread the explain the militant tactics. In hopes to help ppl framing their arguments when responding to ppl who feel uneasy about them.https://twitter.com/goofrider/status/1170670097171542017?s=19 …
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