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This is how the Washington Post today describes the Hong Kong vs. Minneapolis protests:
The HK protestors bravely "defy a police crackdown to resist China" while the George Floyd protestors "vandalize" & are "looters who ransacked a Target" while ignoring "peaceful resolutions."
The HK protestors bravely "defy a police crackdown to resist China" while the George Floyd protestors "vandalize" & are "looters who ransacked a Target" while ignoring "peaceful resolutions."
Today the NY Times ran the Hong Kong protests as their *top front page* story calling for "US action" on China to "protect" the "democracy protestors."
In contrast, the article on the George Floyd protests was buried further down & said the protestors had "turned destructive."
In contrast, the article on the George Floyd protests was buried further down & said the protestors had "turned destructive."
Numerous videos of HK protestors beating & lighting civilians on fire, bombing police stations & looting stores have come out. Yet Western media doesnt report on it & calls them "peaceful democracy protestors" while calling the George Floyd protestors "violent looters & rioters."
The Hong Kong protests are right-wing racist protests driven by enforcing US imperialism on China.
Thats why Western media never reports on when HK protestors loot, destroy & attack and calls them "peaceful" while calling BLM protestors violent & looters. https://twitter.com/FactFacing3/status/1265825298303430657?s=09/video/1
Thats why Western media never reports on when HK protestors loot, destroy & attack and calls them "peaceful" while calling BLM protestors violent & looters. https://twitter.com/FactFacing3/status/1265825298303430657?s=09/video/1
We must resist the West's rebranding of the Hong Kong protests as "pro-democracy" "decolonial" or having "leftist potential."
The protests get valorized by the West bc they are driven by racism & enforcing US imperialism on China.
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The protests get valorized by the West bc they are driven by racism & enforcing US imperialism on China.
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The Hong Kong protests are driven by anti-mainland racism, enforcing US imperialism on China & maintaining HK as a Western capitalist haven. To compare them to Black & Indigenous liberation is not only an insult but also a hiding of their racist, classist, imperialist interests.
Comparing how US media covers the HK vs George Floyd protests is not meant to condemn violence in protests, which is often necessary. Rather its meant to show how US media demonizes protests that actually *challenge* US white supremacy & valorizes those that *serve* US interests.
No matter how much the Western left tries to salvage & misrepresent the Hong Kong protests by claiming there is "leftist" potential & factions made up of unions & the "working class," these protests have made overtly clear the racist, classist, US imperialist interests they serve
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