“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.” Mao Zedong
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I really don’t like what the meat industry does to animals: But I do enjoy eating steak.
I like the results of slaughtering animals, but I hate the method that gives me the results I desire.
Life is full of contradictions, especially in a revolution.
The police justify their brutal enforcement actions in order to maintain their version of peace, likewise, protestors, justify their actions in order to force change from what they see as a malign and unjust government.
The protests in the districts aren’t pretty, it is raw and gritty human against human conflict. At this moment in time it may grind on your sensibilities of what is right and what is wrong, but it can’t be denied that these types of protest are producing results that you might just welcome.
The common retort from most democracy protesters still wondering what to do after the failure of 79 days of Occupy is, “I’m all for dealing with the smuggler problem, or managing hawkers, but I don’t support the methods of the direct action groups.”
But the fact is, if the direct action groups hadn’t created these operations, smugglers or hawkers wouldn’t even be news stories. It’s an undeniable fact that because of these protests the whole of Hong Kong, even the World is talking about how to deal with these problems and that has a far reaching effect on how Hong Kong is governed as a whole.
The direct action groups don’t claim to have all the answers, their goal was to explode these issues in the media and get everyone talking. These are proxy wars on how the HK Government and police think Hong Kong should be ruled under the CCP.
Now everyone wants to offer their opinion on how these problems should be fixed and pretty much every respectable person in Hong Kong believes that something should be done to fix them to make HK better.
So, there’s your fresh, tasty steak, cooked rare! But how it got on the table was pretty shitty!
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Just like it would be wrong to enjoy eating meat yet criticise the butcher for having no morals, likewise, you should think twice before criticising these type of protests. In an atmosphere where the government can ignore huge crowds of people on the streets for months, how else can you grab its attention.
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