HK protesters have repeatedly allied with the Trumps, Pompeos, Rubios, and Pelosis of the world—the architects & enforcers of the US regime of anti-Black death. These sweeping comparisons based on superficial visual references are an insult to the struggle for Black liberation. https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1265630220838752256

Here's a short reading list we've curated that provides a critical lens on the Hong Kong protests and their roots in British colonial nostalgia, anti-Chinese racism, and the false justification of Western intervention into Chinese affairs https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j7jRyFodtBKmj4Jiff0KukBMxM6P8vqZm8AvRhydcvc/edit

We must resist attempts by the Western left to rebrand the HK protests as "pro-democracy" or having "decolonial potential." This ignores the anti-mainland Chinese racism, enforcement of US interests, & class nature driving the protests. Read here about it! https://www.liberationnews.org/educational-background-material-hong-kong-crisis-prepared-psl/

For decades Hong Kong people were far wealthier than mainland Chinese & benefited from their city's position as a capitalist haven for Western corporations. This bred extreme racism towards mainland Chinese, which is a driving force behind the HK protests. https://liberationschool.org/hong-kong-and-china/