This is probably pretty overdue but I do think that personally I am pretty close to disavowing the HK pro-democracy movement if the majority has no critique or condemnation for a white nationalist attempt to take power. Doesn't mean I am not anti-HK authoritarianism/police...

But my politics are just way too different and irreconcilable. I don't really think there is a place to go for overseas HK progressives at the moment that doesn't sell out other movements for social justice.

Fabia Wong: "It is unclear how, absent solidarity with the Mainland Chinese and minority groups within Hong Kong, a legitimately emancipatory politic can be pursued. And in the absence of that, any fight ultimately disintegrates into a struggle for power" https://lausan.hk/2019/hong-kong-and-the-poison-pill-of-identity/

I remember Fabia and I having a long conversation at the very beginning of the movement in summer 2019 and this was our concern even back then with the nativist turn. There were so many entry points for solidarity - police brutality, structural racism, migrant rights.

Just because you are not allowed to critique doesn't mean a mainstream political line does not manifest. I hope we all pay attention (protest movements worldwide) to the opportunities and limits of decentralized, "non-ideological", mass movements for democratic reform.

The immortal Fred Hampton on revolutionary education: https://twitter.com/haymarketbooks/status/1267453852539932672?s=20

One disclaimer is, I only speak for me, not anyone else. Obviously I will still cont the work.

Plus, like mainly leftists, I don't really care about being diued or disliked. The whole project of dismantling oppressions is to be hated.

Left isn't plastic. It's a metal armor.