How was the 2019 protest anthem composed? Why is it controversial? Is Glory to Hong Kong banned already? And does the city risk China-style internet censorship?
You know it’s effective when they hate it so much
I don’t think that there’s a risk of a China-style internet censorship. It seems pretty inevitable at this point.
Good bye Asian financial capital (arguably already happened), goodbye business, goodbye talent, good bye the imperfect HK we loved. Fairwell to an openminded China. Fair well to the incredibly important window into the mainland, and The promise of a better China resulting in a better world. Authoritarians ruin everything eventually in the paranoid pursuit of their own power and enrichment. Congratulations to the lonely king standing ontop of a burnt out pile of ashes.
Can you imagine having a city occupied by Britain in exchange for losing a war that Britain launched because Britain decided that your country shouldn’t be allowed to outlaw opium because British merchants were making too much money to care that they had gotten 40% of your population addicted?
Can you imagine that city being held by Britain until Smash Mouth released it’s first album?
Can you imagine the inhabitants of that island, after Britain finally agreed to leave because it’s military advisers to told Margaret fucking Thatcher that they couldn’t actually hold the country if China refused to renew their lease, being integrated into the global financial system to create capitalist incentives that tied their interests to imperialism?
Can you imagine the children of the colonial subjects on that island deciding to form a separatist movement, invent a new identity, and then create a war song as part of their efforts to remain attached to the global financial system helmed by London so that they could become bankers and landlords? What would the parents of those children do?
Well, a lot them pushed their kids out of the house because the parents lived under capitalist rule and dealt with the imperialists and knew exactly what it was like and they knew the best future was to be part of China. The propagandized children who joined into a made up identity politics fomented by the imperial colonists during the last 20 years of their occupation of Hong Kong, they decided to fight for the right to become capitalist imperial subjects.
And, like all European imperialism, the British and Americans are happy to do everything they can to ensure escalation happens and their present and former colonial subjects fight to their death and suffer.
