The outbreak of violence at the Hong Kong Airport has raised difficult questions about the protesters’ moral authority and the movement’s ability ...
The online forum LIHKG, dubbed Hong Kong’s reddit, which many demonstrators use to communicate and coordinate activities, reveals a worrying direction in which many discussions have headed over the past few weeks – and has become a fertile ground for doxxing those less supportive of the movement.This line of thinking, which pits protesters against everyone else who doesn’t support their mantra that the ends justify the means, is dangerous.
They slung bricks into windows and set fires outside these buildings. I was shocked by the threatening graffiti painted on the walls — “Good dogs don’t serve as cops, or your wife and children be cursed, drop dead”.It is sad to see innocent women and children getting threats like these simply because of their husband or father’s occupation.
But as modern societies, as citizens who hold ourselves to the highest standards of conduct, we cannot allow ourselves to live in a jungle where only fists talk and where anger is vented on innocent people whenever someone feels outraged. Meanwhile, those in the opposing camp will spare no effort in using the behaviour of radicals to scare people and justify tough action, with great success.
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