indeed—there is a reflexive impulse to insist that victims, or the powerless, must be pure. it’s possible, and even likely, to make mistakes and still be entirely in the righthttps://twitter.com/bokane/status/1161266150329765891 …
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Life doesn't happen under conditions of one's choosing and things aren't fair but not confronting the reality of both one's own movement and its adversary has rarely turned out well.
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so what does "confronting the reality" mean in this scenario? they should give up? take whatever they're given? their goals are popular in hong kong, regardless of how big china is
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Except they just did on the 5th. HKPF is dangerously undermanned.
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so the deeper issue is they can't win? I think you've put your finger on why they've responded the way they have in the face of an increasingly violent state: they have nothing to lose, and thus no reason to stop fighting
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I also think it's deeply unfair to analyze their response to a heated situation this way without also acknowledging that is the government/police turning up the temperature--not the protesters. to the extent there is blame to assign for "the way things are," it's one-sided
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