Today's march in Hong Kong is a textbook example of why "violent" and "peaceful" protests are not categories you can meaningfully use here. Something like a hundred thousand people attempted to march. They got a letter of no objection, planned the route, all to no avail
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All I ask is that you think about this dynamic before reading the inevitable "Hope For Peaceful Resultion Fades as Hong Kong Plunges Back Into Violence" headline tomorrow. People voted, they marched with their families. What more can you ask them to do?
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(Here's an before-and-after image taken today capturing the hopelessness of peaceful protest in Hong Kong.) https://twitter.com/Elladraws1/status/1201125966807891968 …
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I'll also point out how weird it is that hundreds of thousands of people march and the government just has no comment. It's like this is a normal thing that major world cities go through sometimes for six months; nothing more to say.
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A day after this march we have estimates that it may have excedeed 300,000 people. Back in June (and Hong Kongers, please correct me) I feel like this would have forced the government to at least issue a statement. Today, they don't even consider it worthy of comment.
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but please can we have more opinion pieces about how HK protesters should stick to peaceful forms of protest only
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