Yes, I'm sure people standing around and chanting slogans are a real threat to Chinese security.
Punks like this kid don't take on the protesters with home-made equipment who are fighting with the police. They pick on unarmed citizens who aren't a threat. It's almost certainly going to be similar to Tony Chun , where the guy took a meat clever to one of the Lennon Walls and decided to attack anyone he saw there and didn't like the look of. None of his victims was a threat to anyone.
If you want to know why there is criticism of people who slavishly follow the CCP's line over Hong Kong, it's comments like yours that automatically defend anyone who commits violence against opponents of the CCP irrespective of the situation.
Well-said.
This is one of the main reasons why I left this forum.
The Umbrella Movement in 2014 was peaceful and the members here called the occupiers rioters and hooligans, even when they barely did anything violent. Teens were attacked by triads and the bigots here would keep mocking them. The bigots here never even bothered, attempted to listen or put themselves in others' shoes. It's always calling people "inferiority complex", "superior complex", colonialism, all that bullshit. They ignored every bit and everything others had to say. I genuinely felt sorry for the members here who have to resort to using these projections and thinking on youths rather than listen what others have to say. Shows how cruel, disgusting, narrow-minded the members here. Made me realize how fucking toxic this community is. If you entrust the future of youths to the bunch here, the youths would be in quite a miserable place.
I even remembered a heated debate with one of the members. He started criticizing my family. I reported him to the mods and it took forever to barely land a real warning. Shows the bias and preferential treatment.
As if that's not enough, I even remember someone was asking a question about North Korea really is like, then someone here replied here and claimed that North Korea isn't that bad, then dismissed everything else as just simply the West and their reporting. When I saw this, I know for good this forum is beyond redemption and basically just a place to mislead and push communist narratives. Just a bunch of brainwashed commies sympathizers. This was when I decided to leave this forum for good.
The echoing chamber here always revolve around the same regular bunch who made all their claims about the entire world outside with a few selective news and sources, whereas everything else would be considered Western propaganda and all that bullshit. It's amazing how this forum community of a few regular bunch can somehow have the entire world and the entire HK protest figured out, without accepting the many voices and people out there. (Not to mention most of them here aren't even from Hk, visited HK as of late.)
Now look at all the hate-fueled comments here calling for crackdown and suppression on human rights. Everything from complaining about foreign judges (obviously this idiot has no understanding of the Common Law system) to removing liberal education. Fucking sickening. It goes to show I'm completely right about the bigots here. They haven't changed, and only doubled down on their pro-CCP agendas. This is not to mention how supportive they are of practically most of CCP's aggressive, bullying acts. Violating international law on SCS, kidnapping hostages to force the return of Meng, crackdown on Hong Kong, ambushing Indian troops with spiked clubs at the border, crackdown on human rights in China on all fronts, list goes on. I used to support China because it really was practicing the Peaceful Rise in the previous decade, but Xi's China had completely left that behind and essentially changed it to a semi-fascist rogue state. However the blind brainwashed supporters here will never acknowledge that. They will continue to cheer the Chicoms on for practically every decision they make with their own deluded thoughts and accusing others of everything(always Western propaganda, always superiority/inferiority complex, always colonialism).
Anyways the bigots here can reply and say whatever they want, but I'm not interested in entertaining any of 'em further.
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Also Mr. T, you're exactly right. There are actually plenty of vicious attacks, human rights violations from the police, assaults from pro-gov't bunch, and the brainwashed tools here will ignore all of it.