Careful, that’s a classic strategy of the colonialists times - arbitrarily create distinctions and differences within indigenous communities that did not exist before, by elevating a random group to a higher status (but obviously still much lower status than whites), and than just sit back and laugh as the indigenous population becomes too busy hating and fighting each other to actually resist the true enemy.
Our collectively anger and disgust should rightly be directly to the rioters and their supporters and sympathisers within HK, and root those willing traitors and wannabe 5th columnists out without mercy, but there are plenty of honest and loyal good people in HK still as well, and they should not be lumped together with the traitors.
Hong Kongers should get that memo. From my experience "overseas Chinese" hide behind Chinese cultural values the most especially about hierarchical family structure. Ironic since they claim to be most forward thinking yet they hang on to old ways. So by their own cultural logic, they are failures in keeping their family in line especially since they either can't control their children or they encourage violence. So by culture they are to blame even though they aren't personally involved because it's their family and they should be keeping their family in-line.
I've mentioned before in this forum back in my college days, I was more politically active. I took on a leftist animal rights organization and their racism against Chinatown in San Francisco that wanted to pass laws about selling live animals for food that singled-out only Chinatown and not other communities that did the same thing. These animal rights activists were using an Asian-American newspaper to send their racist vile messages to Chinese. I started writing letters to counter what they were saying. I was so good at it that the newspaper allowed me to counter as many of them as I can especially to the leader of this organization. Of course outside this newspaper, the mainstream media in San Francisco ignored the discourse and only reported the animal rights activist side. I would spell out how the law they wanted to impose was racist and gave point by point how it was. Of course the animal rights activists ignored me like I was beneath them to answer. But my editorials were upsetting them... This newspaper even had a sympathetic animal rights columnist that sided with them and I exposed him to be a hypocrite. This guy was Filipino and a locally known TV reporter and every now and then he would show up as a substitute radio talk show host on different radio stations in Northern California. I happen to hear many of his shows. The hypocrite was very defensive for his Filipino culture so when some celebrity on TV would joke about Filipinos eating dogs, this guy would come on the radio advocating for laws to pass allowing dog-eating out of spite. When I wrote a column on that, the editor of the newspaper had to call me to confirm if that was true. I told her yes and ask him. The following column from this guy was a disjointed rambling rant. I destroyed and humiliated the Asian shield the animal rights activists were hiding behind to think they weren't racist. Then I got a death threat. Not just someone telling me they were going to kill me. I got the kind of death threat that they sent to the newspaper and the newspaper had to inform me about it. They demanded that the newspaper stop publishing my editorials or they would firebomb the newspaper's office and my house. I didn't care because that was more desperation. Then one day a journalist from one of the two main newspapers in San Francisco asked the leader of this animal rights organization questions similar to what I was asking but he didn't answer. Now it was not contained and animal right activists no longer had the pleasure of having only their story out there. The leader of this assault on Chinatown fessed-up. He said the mainstream Democrats in San Francisco told him to target only Chinatown because if he targeted anyone else, he would not get the public's support. After that, San Francisco supervisors killed the proposition. Did this journalist read my editorials to then ask my questions? The editor of the newspaper thinks so.
Even after all this, some Chinese told me I was too aggressive and it was a bad reflection upon my family. Did I beat someone up using violence? That's Chinese culture for you. Even though I was successful, cultural beliefs are more important. So apply that to Hong Kongers who majority support protestors. If there are those that don't think like that, then they better get out of the way.
