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Originally Posted by AnonymousStranger
Yeah, democracy under British colonialism in HK is a huge myth. The last British appointed governor, Chris Patten, wanted to implement some democratic reforms in 1992, but his proposal was struck down by the British government. So you have 100 years of British colonialism and in the last five years they make some kind of half assed attempt to implement democracy only to make China look bad. All these kids protesting were born post 1997 and the ones who are waving the British colonial flag have zero idea what they are talking about.
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It was a bit before that with Martin Lee in the 80s. But at least it had the elements Johnny mentioned above. Rule of law, free press, freedom of expression etc...