The police could have come and fired 1,000 rounds of tear gas at the isolated CUHK campus at any point in the last two months. Or even better, they could have continued to stay away tonight. But they chose to corner and fight an entire university, a manufactured crisis
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I realize the "why are you hitting yourself?" model of Hong Kong violence sounds flippant, but it succinctly describes the dynamic between the police force and the city. The orchestrated police violence is a profoundly cynical performance for a Beijing audiencepic.twitter.com/Q1IJADUODa
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This is why I am so mad about the http://hkmap.live thing. I understand Tim Cook can't antagonize China, where his entire supply chain is, but he placed the reputation of a trillion dollar company behind a false narrative of the protests that paints victims as perpetrators.
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