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[-] Aquilae@hexbear.net 40 points 2 months ago

For context: Vivian Kong is an olympic fencer who won a Gold medal in epee fencing. At first Hong Kong activists celebrated her victory on behalf of the city only to quickly turn on her after her pro-China views were revealed. She wrote her master’s thesis strongly criticizing the 2014 and 2019 HK protests for being misguided and detrimental to the city.

From the wikipedia page: In her thesis, titled “Occupy Central and Its Effects on Hong Kong Election Reform”, Kong argued that the Chinese Communist Party’s “patriots-only” electoral overhaul of Hong Kong, which greatly reduced directly elected seats and vetted all political candidates for their “patriotism”, corrected the city’s trajectory.[16] She wrote that “anti-Chinese disrupters” twisted the concept of “one country, two systems” and exploited elections to enter the political system, which resulted in a constitutional crisis.[16] According to Kong, the protests revealed that the people of Hong Kong held misconceptions about the “one country, two systems” constitutional principle, which include a tendency to place international human rights covenants over the Hong Kong Basic Law, and an over-emphasis on “two systems”.[16] She was critical of the pro-democracy protests, writing that “Hong Kong’s chaos and illegal acts in recent years to pursue so-called genuine universal suffrage had already posed a threat to national security” and that the use of protests to “threaten” or bargain with authorities was because Beijing had compromised on occasions.[16] Kong dismissed “genuine universal suffrage” in Hong Kong with international standards as a “psuedo-proposition”, citing a UN position that it is each country’s right to choose how to conduct elections.[16]

[-] Aquilae@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago
[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

“Tofu is the best because there are so many different ways of using tofu. Like soft tofu, firm tofu and there is sheet tofu. Basically you can make anything out of tofu”.

Fuel for the fight

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