So I'm not black nor American, but I am a Hong Kong immigrant. I studied and followed the protests in my city that went on for hundreds of days.

If you weep at the sight of big box chain stores and luxury condos set on fire, you need to grow the fuck up.

In Hong Kong we have protests every year, on the dot on July 1. They are huge, five digits in participants, and very consistently peaceful, with highly planned routes and orderly assembly. It is the moderates' wet dream for protests, huge, loud, but "civil".

Tens of thousands, taking the street with renewed vigor every year for the past couple decades, and yet that never stopped the government to put up its awful Extradition Bill in 2019.

Of what use, then, is a "peaceful protest" when faced with such oppression?

The Hong Kong people have the longest track record of the largest, most peaceful protests, but in the end, noise could be drowned out.

Wanna know how 2014 was the most successful annual protest in Hong Kong history until 2019? Wanna know how the Extradition Bill got axed? By hitting them where it hurts.

They already think your lives are a negotiable good. They don't care what you have to say. They've demonstrated they won't listen.

So you threaten what makes them comfortable - their capital, their money - and suddenly they're willing to lend an ear.

It's worked in Hong Kong, and it's worked in Chile. The situation is clear.

If you don't want you personal future threatened, then stop taking the future of other people.

A riot and a violent protest is the tip of the iceberg, and the only part you ever feel passionate about because you willingly ignore everything underneath it, the years of oppression and suffering gone unanswered. It is not my problem you can only see it now.

If this is too uncomfortable for you, then boo fucking hoo. My identity, our identities, suffering, oppression, don't go away when you stop thinking about it. The unfollow button is bright blue for a reason.

I'm not here to make you feel comfortable. No lives matter until #BlackLivesMatter .