My Take | Advocating independence with a locked mindset
Hong Kong’s student leaders have not just become uncouth; they seem to have lost the ability for critical and intellectual thought
You give the lunatics and ignoramuses enough rope and they will hang themselves. That may be the best argument not to worry too much about the extreme localist fringe and those who advocate independence for Hong Kong.
The latest: those who commemorate the June 4 crackdown in 1989 have been denounced as brothel keepers by university student leaders.
“The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China has become pimps and bawds in a brothel after they themselves were raped,” wrote Ng Kwai-lung, head of Shue Yan University’s student union editorial board. “Its task is to lure young girls to be tainted, before submitting them to the gangs and bandits.”
When asked to comment on his immoderate language, Ng hid behind Horace Chin Wan-kan, the father of the Hong Kong independence movement, saying Chin helped him write it.
It’s a bit sad that the head of a university’s student editorial board could not write a commentary by himself. But I believe Ng.