A reminder of yesterday, ~200,000 person human chain in Hong Kong on the 30th anniversary of the historic Baltic one. I walked it for an hour, saw no gaps.https://twitter.com/lokinhei/status/1164949408766541824 …
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This Saturday's protest march has been banned. (Same organizers as the one two weeks ago. Organizers say it was 1.7 million—ended without incident). Now the organizer was attacked. Closing of lawful means of protest, bringing in extrajudicial punishment. https://twitter.com/tomgrundy/status/1166979856753553408 …
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This was already one country, 1.5 systems and it’s rapidly going down to one country, 1.25 systems. Hong Kong was never fully democratic, but residents are used to having protest as a key means of political expression. So far, it’s been effectively useless and now maybe banned.
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Tonight in Hong Kong, there are simultaneous screenings of Winter of Fire—a documentary about Ukraine’s 2013-14 Euromaidan protests. Pop-up projectors. They’ve been doing this for weeks. HongKongers are searching for something—anything—that works to express their political will.pic.twitter.com/7aJcYDNM1u
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Yes, the country whose president may have just suggested nuking hurricanes is so omnipotent and well-organized that it can somehow make millions of people across the ocean risk their lives to demand true democracy—the most basic demand for centuries now. https://twitter.com/fartron/status/1167073897843515398 …
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Here’s the screenshot of the tweet the coward claiming Hong Kong’s brave protesters are just a “state department op” that he deleted. (And the next one he will likely delete). The deep racism of such claims is infuriating. HongKongers are risking everything for a freer future.pic.twitter.com/cqpJ9Xh3tx
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These idiots who think the state department can “make” millions risk everything probably could not manage to run, say, a coffee shop with two employees. But they’re so racist that they believe in remote magic wands that work especially on nonwhite people, and by the millions.pic.twitter.com/f4HRbMCHbg
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Maybe the state department tries to interfere here and there. Who cares? The idea that millions demand democracy at the behest of some foreign government (at great personal risk!) is deeply deeply racist. The fight for freedom is no culture’s monopoly. https://twitter.com/a_bad_sign/status/1167083357093670914 …pic.twitter.com/aKlGp3LLXe
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People in my mentions still claiming that Hong Kong protests (and Ukraine!) were state department ops or somehow CIA-orchestrated etc!! The level of racism behind that assumption that non-white/non-Western Europe people can't have their own movements for freedom is mind-blowing.
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In the case of Ukraine the accusations come from other non-Western European people, so not racist in that sense. As for the allegations, in the case of Ukraine, US and Western European interference was so public, that it would also be dishonest to claim there was none.
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There was notable Russian interference in the US election (and it was such a close election that it was arguably sufficient to have shifted outcome though again very very close election) but, still, the key dynamics were domestic. US let itself get to that point. That's the key.
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Pirkko Retweeted Rob Reich
Also, there’s this pretty strange research:https://twitter.com/robreich/status/1148399975987965953?s=21 …
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Rob Reich @robreichAnother chapter in ethics of field experiments in social science: American economists and political scientists at@UChicago,@Stanford,@MIT and@Harvard randomly incentivize young Hong Kong university students to engage in antiauthoritarian protests. https://twitter.com/DurRobert/status/1148090885470654464 …Show this thread0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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