Here's how they do it up in China!
This is from China Daily, the CCP propaganda
English-language newspaper and is
clearly intended to show us
"Look, guys, it don't hurt a bit!"
... but as you can guess, HK did NOT want to introduce this hideous, compulsory ickiness into our education system and so got on it's FEISTY and went all out to battle:
Lead by Scholastics, a bunch of winsy cute high school kiddies, HK drew a line in the sand and shouted "Get back!" at the mighty CCP. Thousands upon thousands protested down at Tamar Offices (that's the CCP Offices down there at Admiralty) ...
CCP placed this number at 8000.
Independent counters put it at over 100,000.
See, this is what happens when you
spend all your lesson time
saluting flags and chanting slogans.
You never learn to count.
... and the city was littered with thousands of high school kiddies posters ...
... and everyone was asked to wear black to show you protested ...
... and so HK was a sea of black-clad angry people.
And if you double-click on this SCMP article below, it may be large enough for you to read everything that went down:
We won! Yup, that's it for Patriotism Education in Hong Kong and here's the final word on the subject:
Leung gets his!
And that schoolboy represents
that the campaign against Patriotism Ed
was led by a bunch of high school students!
And here's my final image on the subject:
OK, I was trying to be all metaphoric.
Need to work on that, right!
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2 comments:
"...who, you will recall, signed that they would leave HK alone for 50 years, and that was only 15 years ago...."
And then they proceed to cheat on the deal.
And that's typical for dealings with Chinese. And that's why, amongst other things, I neither like nor trust them, and avoid dealing with them.
But then Hong Kong had its chance to stay British evidently. But then wishful thinking and ethnic affinity politics got in the way. And now the people in Hong Kong are discovering that, compared to the rest of China, they're more British than they thought.
(Funny how I said something like that to you when you moved to Hong Kong, at which point you cut me off and stopped speaking to me for being non-PC. And now you're saying much the same thing. Curious how reality tends to intrude upon wishful thinking.)
Just a thought. (And with a 90 gallon/minute yard irrigation system for my mom's house that I finally - finally! - finished, a war story for another time.)
VicB3
Btw, one of these photos was taken by Wendy.
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