I admire the protesters in HongKong.

what I don't like is how pretentious HK people treat Mainlanders. I always put them in their place when they talk bad about Mainlanders, like they are backwards people. So it took the British to teach you manners eh, and now you think you're better than the rest of China? Go f yourself HK. You're not better than China.

I also admired Occupy Wall Street. Which added up to shit.

That's because they should have occupied Washington. Wall Street wouldn't regulate itself unless it was forced to. Then the police broke up the crowds and people lost hope in it.

It was honourable and a good idea though. Occupy Wall Street. On the fringes might have been unseemly but overall the right gesture. I hope Honk Kong citizens find a good compromise.

You just called it Honk Kong.

R1 Where there's smoke, there's fire. Mainlanders can be crass and backward when they travel. Should the rest of the world not comment about it?

Honky Tonk. And?

I do too. They’ve been at this for weeks now and haven’t let up.

Those little HKL people will be expunge soon.

The Empire needs to expunge this festering pimple on its bottom.

Hong Kongers can be unnecessarily hostile to mainland Chinese, but there's a definitely breed of trashy mainlander. And there are those who support the government and who are happy to send pro-democracy activists death threats or beat up people at protests.

Hong Kong is definitely better than the rest of China r1.

It's a free society, China is not. They realize that and they don't want to lose their freedom.

The British subjugation is relevant in that it protected them from the take over of the totalitarian communist party. Taiwanese feel the same way about the mainland and they weren't a British colony.

Agreed! Those pics are bonkers.

They have had ENOUGH!

Isn't it ridiculous when Hong Kong was an overseas territory of the UK, the HK people didn't want democracy nor did they want any form of representation? And now all of the sudden, they just need democracy like they do water. These HK protesters could have done this admirable feat of protestation when they were under the British rule. Probably Hong Kong would still be a vassal city of the UK right now and didn't have to kowtow to the lowlife Han Chinese. Their resistance is futile.

R4 Honk Kong, lol. Great typo.

R13 If they were still a British overseas territory they would be like the Falklands or Gibraltar, which is not bad at all. Being under the rule of the Chinese goverment, however...

Asians adore whites people but hate each other

The grammar troll hates you, R16.

So depressing. It will be repressed - because we live in a world where fascism is again acceptable. The pace of change has made people uneasy and nervous - they want order and control. Wholly illogical - but arguably Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter pushed a lot of people into Trumps arms. Just like 1968/72 with Nixon - at times of chaos and change, the average joe craves stability over freedom. And Fox packages it all for them - what to fear, and who to hate.

They don’t want democracy. They want their civil rights respected.

Immediately someone wanted to derail the discussion and talk about how people in Hong Kong are classist or whatever.

They're a more international culture, democrati8, and not necessarily tolerant of those who are happy with China's oppressive regime, and that's a good thing.

They're doing what we're going to have to do here in the US, and the sooner the better.

*democratic

Sorry about that errant 8 in there.