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wyrmenby parietal eye @wyverewings8/9/2024, 3:51 PM

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Mae 美妍 @AtFruitBat8/9/2024, 12:09 PM

I get the impression there are people here who completely missed the 2019-2020 pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong

Plus the national security crackdown on demonstrators by Beijing, and how some organisers and demonstrators had to flee Hong Kong afterwards.

Anyway:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Hong_Kong_protests

The situation has become so repressive that the UK government (the anti-migrant Tories even!) established a specific pathway for refugees from Hong Kong to come to the UK.

Not that that has gone well for all those refugees (because the Tories were incompetent as well as being anti-migrant, and the system isn't great.)

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/may/12/my-time-in-uk-has-been-disaster-hongkongers-fear-deportation-after-years-left-in-limbo

But I mean the jeopardy those protesters face is real enough that Britain did that.

#Hong Kong #fascism #antifascism #refugees

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magnesium oxide @magnesium8/9/2024, 7:18 PM

this isn’t commentary on the situation in hong kong, which i need to do more research on. however, i’m skeptical of using the tories as evidence that the repression is severe. the british political apparatus doesn’t have a conscience; if there was some threshold of oppression that would make them act, surely there’d be a similar program for Palestinian refugees.

apologies if i misunderstood your point here.

Mae 美妍 @AtFruitBat8/9/2024, 7:57 PM

The Tories are very anti-migrant. I'm hardly holding them up as a social conscience. I mean, do I really have to spell out that there should be an equivalent for Palestine refugees? Of course there should.

I'm assuming I'm talking to people who understand that is a given, and therefore don't have to do whataboutism about different humanitarian crises, in order to recognise that the situation in Hong Kong has become oppressive. 🤷‍♀️

Like if we're going there, there should be safe routes for ALL refugees here, and we're obviously not getting that. AND ALSO, even in that situation the Tories made some (poor) effort to cater to people from Hong Kong fleeing oppression.