As I'm seeing HKers scrubbing their profiles, deleting their accounts, and going underground as the new security law is being passed, I can't help but be terrified for their fate and their safety. It feels like it's the end of Hong Kong as we once knew it /1
The relative political freedom it once had from the rest of Mainland is finally going to be gone once this law is enforced. Political dissidents of all kinds from feminists to socialists to pan-democrats are going to be targeted. The haven Hong Kong once provided will be gone /2
When I hear about what's going on in Hong Kong, I think about the Uyghurs, the Tibetans, the workers, the feminists, the LGBT activists, the socialists, all those whom the CCP has targeted and silenced into oblivion. The thought of HKers joining them saddens me /3
The end of Hong Kong's political freedoms is going to be one of the most devastating acts of political authoritarianism in recent memory since the Arab Spring. And is going to set an example for authoritarians who will feel empower to bully dissidents across the world /4
And all these so-called "leftists" and tankies, these people who claim to be against police brutality and political repression, who have smeared and sneered the protests ever since they started, will turn their back on this thing because HKers' lives won't matter for them /5
I will never forget all those who preached for fighting for decolonization, police and prison abolition, and self-determination, who turned on us and attacked us when we needed support the most. I will never forget the widespread apathy and willful ignorance they displayed /6
MLK once said "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." We will not forget the betrayal they've given us, or their efforts to get the world to turn back on us, or their hatred for us just because we wanted freedom /7
Whatever happens, happens. But this isn't the end just yet. No dictatorship, no empire, no form of oppression lasts forever. They tried to bury the fires of resistance in Tiananmen, only to have it sprung up in Hong Kong 30 years later. They will come back with a vengeance /End
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