But there needs to be multiple factions. These protestors are one faction. One piece of movement. Another traditional faction is the politicians. Then there are teachers… Everyone plays their part. Even criminals have a part they can play (honestly it is probably one of the most important seeing as we are dealing with people above the law… It takes one to know one type of mindset).
The fight needs multiple arms. And it’s up to each individual to play their part outside of these visible productions of display.
If you know criminals, or players of “the game”, you know they see these protests as nothing but comical and you know they can find a way to utilize them for their own gains too. So you are correct in your view. But I don’t think the protests are worthless if they are attached to the bigger spectrum and other factions of change. We just need to see those other factions have growth too. People can’t put all the eggs into this protest basket.
Learned about it from this episode of the Team Human podcast
But what is happening in Hong Kong is they come up with a slogan, which is translated as Do Not Split, which is, we know that some people are willing to be confrontational with riot police.
And when they are, that’s going to cost the state in terms of not only resources, but it’s going to cost the state in terms of political capital and support. And we know that there are some people who are not willing to do that. And we are going to abide by the protocol of Do Not Split, which means that we’re not going to criticize them openly, and they’re not going to criticize us openly.
If we’re the pacifists, we’re not going to have them criticize us for being sort of like, I don’t know, limpid or flaccid or not courageous or whatever. And we’re not going to criticize them for being more confrontational. And the thing is that the support is also tacit.
It’s not like they have to come out and tell the media, oh, we approve of our more sort of confrontational colleagues. They just keep quiet. They just keep quiet.
Understanding that a range of tactics is probably going to be necessary. Nobody really knows what’s going to work. But if everybody’s pushing back against a particularly violent state, then everybody’s really on the same side.
I agree in some ways.
But there needs to be multiple factions. These protestors are one faction. One piece of movement. Another traditional faction is the politicians. Then there are teachers… Everyone plays their part. Even criminals have a part they can play (honestly it is probably one of the most important seeing as we are dealing with people above the law… It takes one to know one type of mindset).
The fight needs multiple arms. And it’s up to each individual to play their part outside of these visible productions of display.
If you know criminals, or players of “the game”, you know they see these protests as nothing but comical and you know they can find a way to utilize them for their own gains too. So you are correct in your view. But I don’t think the protests are worthless if they are attached to the bigger spectrum and other factions of change. We just need to see those other factions have growth too. People can’t put all the eggs into this protest basket.
“Do Not Split”
Learned about it from this episode of the Team Human podcast