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A thread of @lausanhk articles that have called out anti-Mainland xenophobia among Hongkongers and Hong Kong protesters, from August 2019 to present.
These are just the writings currently on https://lausan.hk . It doesn't include our on-the-ground organizing & social media
These are just the writings currently on https://lausan.hk . It doesn't include our on-the-ground organizing & social media
"[T]he movement has its limitations indeed. Rampant xenophobic attitudes toward mainland Chinese continue to plague the movement’s ranks..." — @promiseli_ https://lausan.hk/2020/building-a-self-determination-without-nationalism/
"Chinese people in general, have (not been) afforded the same humanity as those perpetuating these racist caricatures in the guise of public health." — @edwardhswong https://lausan.hk/2020/when-a-disease-is-racialized/
"[S]ome members of the Hong Kong and other Asian diasporas are also amplifying xenophobic stories... not only missing the chance for greater solidarity; they are also actively damaging the efforts to prevent a pandemic. " — @jnchien https://lausan.hk/2020/the-danger-of-division-in-a-time-of-global-pandemic/
"[D]iscrimination against 'Mainlanders' has also intensified... the climate of fear we have created could in fact cause far more serious damage to society than the epidemic itself." — Minnie Li https://lausan.hk/2020/epidemic-panic-and-the-ecosystem-of-public-speech/
"When paranoia, conservatism, and myopia gradually become accepted, even lauded, by the mainstream, aren’t we missing something important in this city’s collective struggle?" — Crystal https://lausan.hk/2020/i-went-to-eat-at-three-hongkongers-only-restaurants/
"There is widespread indifference to the plight of migrant workers in Hong Kong, their voices have largely been ignored by both the pro-Democracy movement and the government." — @promiseli_ https://lausan.hk/2019/hong-kongs-protest-movement-must-stop-ignoring-migrant-workers/
"The right-wing localists do not represent every Hongkonger’s real thoughts, and yet they have taken up space at the core of the movement and become a self-actualizing prophecy." — @leonmail https://lausan.hk/2020/facing-down-the-hong-kong-protests-right-wing-turn/
"I regretted how I shied away from fully explaining the racial hatred that is hidden in Hong Kong’s social movement." — Ahkok https://lausan.hk/2020/on-racial-hatred-how-the-coronavirus-has-uncovered-the-dark-side-of-hong-kongs-movement/
"With the outbreak of the coronavirus, anti-mainland sentiment is on the rise... Hongkongers have to challenge the contradictions of Chin’s backward politics of identity-based exclusion." — @promiseli_ https://lausan.hk/2020/chin-wans-right-wing-localism-threatens-hong-kongs-future/
"[W]ho is our movement excluding when it always insists on unity, even with racist nationalists? How can we fight Chinese nationalism without resorting to a far-right Hong Kong nationalism?" — @joymingking https://lausan.hk/2020/hong-kong-uyghur-rally-hijack/
"If there is anyone Hongkongers should build solidarity with, it is these migrants and those who advocate for their rights, rather than the British state." — @deletehkpf https://lausan.hk/2020/hong-kongs-former-coloniser-cannot-be-our-saviour/
"As leftists, we must reject both anti-Chinese rhetoric and Chinese nationalism. Nationalism and xenophobia have been used time and again to divide oppressed people across borders, and the case of Hong Kong and China is no different." — Lausan Collective https://lausan.hk/2019/between-washington-and-beijing/
"[T]his otherizing tendency also underpins persistent currents of anti-mainland nativism in Hong Kong, the abusive exclusionism of which has sometimes manifested in the 2019 protests." — @jnchien @cantnonical https://lausan.hk/2019/hong-kong-card-against-new-cold-war/
"[C]redit is due to those in the movement who have recognised the need to stand with and not against Mainlanders... ordinary Mainlanders should not be held responsible for the wrongs their government perpetrates." — @deletehkpf https://lausan.hk/2019/make-or-break-a-progressive-assessment-of-hong-kongs-movement/
"[W]e can imagine an entirely new relationship between Hong Kongers and Mainlanders—one that is not based on nativism or nationalism, but a shared sense of solidarity." — @organizejs https://lausan.hk/2019/we-stood-on-opposite-sides-at-a-pro-hong-kong-rally-and-became-friends/
"[T]hese elements should be strongly opposed. Building a movement for self-determination on cop, nationalist, and exclusionary logics will not lead to an equal or just society." — @jnchien https://lausan.hk/2019/towards-a-radical-hong-kong-imagination/
