Not that it is not worrying that peaceful protesters are arrested but but 2 months are just roughly 4 times two weeks while Hong Kong’s population (7.35 million) is just 1/45th of the US population (333 million).
And some of them really strain the definition of peaceful. My university’s library was just occupied and trashed by people claiming to be “peaceful” protestors. They of course use their extra special definition of peaceful that doesn’t include property damage. Their protest accomplished nothing, but it shut down campus for most of a week and will deny any physical access to the library building for weeks or months. And of course students ultimately get to pay for it, one way or another.
Not that it is not worrying that peaceful protesters are arrested but but 2 months are just roughly 4 times two weeks while Hong Kong’s population (7.35 million) is just 1/45th of the US population (333 million).
And some of them really strain the definition of peaceful. My university’s library was just occupied and trashed by people claiming to be “peaceful” protestors. They of course use their extra special definition of peaceful that doesn’t include property damage. Their protest accomplished nothing, but it shut down campus for most of a week and will deny any physical access to the library building for weeks or months. And of course students ultimately get to pay for it, one way or another.
That is so much like a precision air strike on a home, you must be devastated. I’m so sorry for your loss.
Is there anything more liberal than pearl clutching about property damage when your regime is actively participating a literal genocide.
I think it would be more accurate to look at the size of the protests, because not the entire population is out protesting.