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Originally Posted by AsIseeIt  --snip-- It would be inappropriate to label Hong Kong's Chinese activists as "traitors" for carrying a pro-democracy banner that read, "Return power to the people". However, it would be provocative and adding insult to injury for somebody, especially a Chinese citizen, to protest with a Tibetan flag (which is an official banned item) on Chinese soil --snip-- |
If you read my post again you will see that
I'm not calling the Honk Kong Chinese (on Chinese soil)
traitors - it's the pro-Beijing Chinese on Chinese soil calling
other Chinese protesters the traitors.
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Originally Posted by AsIseeIt Just imagine an American girl protesting with Al Qaeda's flag in front of the Mayor of New York and her countrymen on the Anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001. It would be laughable for the university student to complain about the police: "What right do they have to take me away? I have a right to express my opinion." |
But she would have that right....
Will we see Chinese pro-Tibet protests on Chinese soil? (And I don't mean the Tibetans complaining on Chinese soil - I mean Han Chinese.)