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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Sep 2019

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      Blind throw of a teargas canister by Hong Kong police around a corner, first hits a reporter—yay helmet!—before teargassing random shoppers. This is one reason why the protests still have a lot momentum. Almost everyone I talked to mentioned police behavior as a key motivator. https://twitter.com/ray_slowbeat/status/1170733270079664134 …

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Sep 2019

      Hong Kong police seem to have hit the unsweet spot for incompetence and brutality. Having studied protests for a long time, I’d say they rank high in terms of incompetence for crowd control but are constantly upping their misconduct ratings. Every week I was there they got worse.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Sep 2019

      By the way, this is why protest safety—for most people—is, in order of importance: helmets, goggles then gas mask. The most serious injuries are direct hits to the head and eyes, and I’ve seen and there a lot of videos of Hong Kong police firing the canisters at head level.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Sep 2019

      At this point, many people are quiet mad at the Hong Kong police. One could’ve made a very good study of original Cantonese insults and curses from just listening to the passerby’s yelling at them.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Sep 2019

      Also, Hong Kong's protesters appear to me as deeply earnest and non-cynical. It's really a disservice to interpret them through the cynical/weary frame around politics/movements that's common in US/UK. Our own frames/projections to their particular moment don't work well.

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      • Benjamin Doubali shirato Peter #BLM #AbolishThePolice Michelle Ng yellow object 🏴 N. Felipe DaChooooga🌹 Helen L.H. Wong Sui Iuris
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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Sep 2019
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          The damage they can do is real, but they will go down in history as the kind of people that rationalized the Gulags or the Ukraine famine even long after being in a position to know better.

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        1. Living the Life of Riley‏ @bauhinialee 8 Sep 2019
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          I agree. It’s hard to frame this movement in terms of political left or right and frame it in the way you would in US/UK. Much of this comes from a lot of fear and from bottom of our hearts. HKers choose to live with freedom from fear.

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        1. Donald Zhang‏ @donaldzh2 8 Sep 2019
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          Donald Zhang Retweeted South China Morning Post

          The last part of the talk shows the fundamental reason of the unrest.https://twitter.com/SCMPNews/status/1169184576931057664?s=20 …

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          The conflict between the US and China is a much larger geopolitical contest between the world's No 1 power and the world's No 1 emerging power, says Kishore Mahbubani, a former Singapore diplomat who was also president of the UN Security Council. http://sc.mp/avlam  pic.twitter.com/HA67XojWjg
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        1. 小白鼠先生 😷‏ @shiroihamusan 9 Sep 2019
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          Most HKers are not familiar with politics. The only reason for this movement is the elimination of freedom by #chinazi, that's the extradition bill. And we find the HKgov is already corrupted over these years. So, only the withdrawal of the bill is not enough. #5DemandsNot1Less

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        1. KesaKesa  😷‏ @kesakesa9 9 Sep 2019
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          Unfortunately police are frisking people who carry helmets or gas masks with them. Can’t even protect ourselves

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        1. Oscar L.  🔰‏ @0long4 9 Sep 2019
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          People tends to seek comparisons from what they knew when they don’t understand what they saw... #HongKongProtest

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        1. 王者 🦉归来‏ @QQ1106309927 9 Sep 2019
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          没有开枪打你们这些汉奸都算好的了,暴徒一面的视频为啥不发一个?破坏地铁公共设施,那些暴徒,你看不见?十个记者里面有一个汉奸,你都看不见

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