Wanna be clear too: standing up to authority and overreach of police powers is generally good! (I’m also not saying all HK protestors are Trump supporters but damn dude a lot of them sure love the idea of the NATO powers running things there from what I understand). Being uncritical and unquestionably applauding people who seem to at least have factions openly supporting uhhhhhh a racist imperialist president that throws kids in cages and bombs innocent people? Maybe not as good.
Just have nuance. However I have to say: if a group of people is using a symbol maybe it’s because they’re in some way part of the same group that popularized that symbol and used that symbol a certain way and they now identify with that usage. Geopolitics isn’t anime or a marvel movie and these pictures are still probably of Trump supporters using pepe unironically (I mean who really gives a care about pepe but still lol). Hong Kong isn’t a black/white freedom struggle: there’s a lot of ideology and history going on there and a lot of propaganda to boot.
Please use your head, have some nuance, and do some research and don’t be so willing write permission for the US to do it’s historical pastime of destabilizing the fuck out of everywhere to maintain hegemony. Protestors can be racist and support bad things while also supporting some good things, just consider those things a bit more and don’t mindlessly applaud them like you’re watching a movie. That’s all I ask.
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