Just Saying | Yeah, right, let’s ask Donald Trump for help with Hong Kong’s human rights
Yonden Lhatoo suggests that the city’s young pro-democracy politicians should find new sources of inspiration because their traditional icons have become irrelevant
“Too simple, sometimes naive!” This infamous quote by former president Jiang Zemin (江澤民) became a catchphrase for Hong Kong back in 2000. He was ranting at the city’s young reporters after one of them got his goat with an inflammatory question.
Imagine Jiang now, if he were still in charge, updating that dismissive description to categorise our new generation of opposition politicians. “Total simpletons, seriously naive”, perhaps?
Are these people aware there’s a real world beyond their Facebook and Instagram sandboxes?
That’s right. Young Joshua expects Trump, of all the people on this planet, to help Hong Kong achieve its democratic aspirations. I don’t know where to start. You’d get more sympathy for your broken Hello Kitty doll from Attila the Hun, or stand a better chance of putting a tutu on King Kong for a twinkle-toed pirouette performance.
It’s time for Wong and company to wake up and smell the coffee. Their tired old traditional icons of democracy have long passed their sell-by date. They need to find new role models and sources of inspiration to fight the good fight. But who and where? Look at what’s happening around the world, starting with the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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