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Are the 2019-2020 Hong Kong Demonstrations Riots or Protests?

Are the demonstrations in Hong Kong Protests or Riots?

  • They are protests.

    Votes: 2 100.0%

  • They are violent riots.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    2
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The demonstrations in Hong Kong have been far more violent and damaged much more property than the BLM protests in America have. The Chinese government calls them violent riots. Do you believe they are protests or riots? If you call them protests, then why do you call the BLM demonstrations riots?
 
:popcorn2: (Disaster thread in the making.)
 
They are unapproved protest that turn violent by police confrontation. I don't know that I've read of any then turning to definitional riot.
 
The Hong Kong protests do not involve the looting and burning of stores the way black ghetto riots in the Untied States do. Whenever blacks have the opportunity they loot stores. It does not require a perceived injustice. It happened during a black out in Manhattan in 1977, and after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005.
 
Are we comparing America's police forces to those of the CCP? [I bet we are]
 
SmartCat said:
The Hong Kong protests do not involve the looting and burning of stores the way black ghetto riots in the Untied States do. Whenever blacks have the opportunity they loot stores. It does not require a perceived injustice. It happened during a black out in Manhattan in 1977, and after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005.
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You don't know what you are talking about. The level of violence with the Hong Kong protests is an order of magnitude higher than it is with BLM.

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WCH said:
Are we comparing America's police forces to those of the CCP? [I bet we are]
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Hong Kong police are not the same as CCP police (though obviously ultimately subservient to them).

Just the same, the point is that the protests in Hong Kong are an order of magnitude more violent than BLM protests. Yet you call them protests while calling BLM rioters. Authoritarian governments throughout history have painted protests as violent riots. The CCP calls the Hong Kong protests violent riots just like Trump calls BLM protests violent riots.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
Hong Kong police are not the same as CCP police (though obviously ultimately subservient to them).

Just the same, the point is that the protests in Hong Kong are an order of magnitude more violent than BLM protests. Yet you call them protests while calling BLM rioters. Authoritarian governments throughout history have painted protests as violent riots. The CCP calls the Hong Kong protests violent riots just like Trump calls BLM protests violent riots.
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Maybe it comes down to the reasoning for such "events"
 
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