SHAME-FREE thread: ask the dumbest question you have about the Hong Kong protests. I'll try to answer it or loop in a real Hong Konger to answer it for you. No question too ignorant or basic.
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Replying to @Pinboard
Are we on the right side of history by claiming that a former British colony forcibly taken from China should indefinitely retain autonomy from Chinese law?
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Replying to @val_to_string
Hong Kong predates the modern Chinese state so this question is sort of a category error
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Replying to @Pinboard
If you're limiting the "modern" Chinese state to what is left after Western colonial powers carved off pieces, that seems like legitimization of violent invasion just bc it happened in the past So if Russia invaded Ukraine, 100 years from now that would be okay?
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Replying to @val_to_string
Unquestionably. Look at my own country's borders from 100 years ago.
5:34 AM - 17 Oct 2019
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