

Pointing fingers at each other has become Hong-kongers' newest pastime.

Part I. Dehumanization and bullying committed by the police and HK pro-Beijing front associates

§1. HK police organizations calling protesters cockroaches

“Humans have a sense of basic morals ... For such base creatures, we can only [describe] them as the insect that is most afraid of exposure to light – cockroaches, please stop,” he [Lam Chi-wai] said.

§2. Alleged harassment of a female netizen by Junius Ho, pro-Beijing legislator

Footnotes & References

[1] South China Morning Post being the exception, due to most of its editing team being located in Hong Kong.

[2] Cheung, T. (2019). Hong Kong police leader slams ‘cockroaches’ who trashed pro-Beijing legislator Junius Ho’s parents’ graves over extradition bill row. South China Morning Post. Retrieved from Cheung, T. (2019). Hong Kong police leader slams ‘cockroaches’ who trashed pro-Beijing legislator Junius Ho’s parents’ graves over extradition bill row.. Retrieved from https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3020269/hong-kong-police-leader-slams-cockroaches-who-trashed-pro

[3] Whether HK protesters actually desecrated the grave is still a dispute. so far, those who dispute the argument have three main counter arguments, as follows--

Protesters could have not possibly gained access to Junius Ho Kwan-yiu's grave as it would have been heavily guarded by local people friendly to Ho. Next to the desecrated graves the Chinese word 勝和, an abbreviation for the word 和勝和, the name of a local triad (Cantonese mafia) group. Could it have been possibly that Junius Ho paid them to desecrate his family graveyard? Whether HK protesters actually desecrated the grave is still a dispute. so far, those who dispute the argument have three main counter arguments, as follows--

[4] Wong, M. (2019). Demonstrators offer sparkling visions of unity as human chains encircle city in ‘Hong Kong Way’. South China Morning Post. Retrieved from

Wong, M. (2019). Demonstrators offer sparkling visions of unity as human chains encircle city in ‘Hong Kong Way’.. Retrieved from https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3024169/demonstrators-offer-sparkling-visions-unity-human-chains

[5] Ng, C. (2019). 【政壇諸事町】叫女網民「自慰」被指性騷擾 何君堯刪拒道歉貼文 "After telling woman to "masturbate" and being alleged of sexual harassment, Junius Ho Kwan-yiu deletes his Facebook post refusing to apologize" 香港01. Retrieved from Ng, C. (2019)."After telling woman to "masturbate" and being alleged of sexual harassment, Junius Ho Kwan-yiu deletes his Facebook post refusing to apologize". Retrieved from https://www.hk01.com/%E6%94%BF%E6%83%85/362154/%E6%94%BF%E5%A3%87%E8%AB%B8%E4%BA%8B%E7%94%BA-%E5%8F%AB%E5%A5%B3%E7%B6%B2%E6%B0%91-%E8%87%AA%E6%85%B0-%E8%A2%AB%E6%8C%87%E6%80%A7%E9%A8%B7%E6%93%BE-%E4%BD%95%E5%90%9B%E5%A0%AF%E5%88%AA%E6%8B%92%E9%81%93%E6%AD%89%E8%B2%BC%E6%96%87

Note: From now on I will begin to make posts that cover the most current and important "themes" of the situation in Hong Kong for both Hong Kong and foreign viewers.In the past few weeks, I have seen and witnessed a great theme of dehumanization and bullying among the Chinese-language media who are reporting about the Hong Kong issue with much more information at hand than Western English-language media outlets and newspapers, e.g. The Guardian, NYT, or the Washington Post [1] Such a theme is practiced not only on the pro-CCP side, but also by protesters and their supporters and affiliates. This blog article will be divided into three parts, one about the pro-CCP side, and one about the protesters, supporters, affiliates, and one concluding the whole theme.The Hong Kong Police organizations have rarely directly spoken about the character of the people they are dealing with in recent times. The past month however that seems to have changed. On the 26of July 2019, Lam Chi-wai, chairman of the Junior Police Officers' Association described the Hong Kong protesters who supposedly desecrated pro-government legislator Junius Ho Kwan-yiu's family grave as "cockroaches" [2] [3] However one's take on the dispute is, the police has taken an unprecedented step to group, generalize, and dehumanize those people who they are incidentally dealing with as dirty cockroaches and "base creatures" whose only mission is to create filth. The police force has also established dangerous precedent of calling the people they are managing with insulting names other than the official name to call them. By generalizing them and dehumanizing them, the police is following the pro-Beijing agenda to completely erase and silence the great majority of protesters who are peaceful, rational, and non-violent and frame them into violent extremist semi-falangist militant protesters like those who tied up the Chinesereporter at the airport in more recent times. I quote the--Here, the chairman of the Junior Officers Association has clearly twisted some logic. Where were the pro-Beijing camp's sense of morals when Junius Ho called those white-clad thugs who attacked peaceful Hong Kong protesters including a pregnant woman in Yuen Long merely “defending their home” from anti-government protesters? And where were the guts of Junius Ho to respond when it was revealed that the desecration of the grave is likely connected to triad gang activity, not protesters?Howsoever the protester rhetorical front tried to question Junius Ho and the police on these matters, the pro-Beijing front and their hired pundits continued to use the "cockroach" term to call and describe protesters, ignoring that most protesters (inclduing the protesters in the "Hong Kong Way" [4] protests that happened yesterday) did not in fact commit any violent act, let alone a crime. Thus reveals the agenda of the pro-Beijing pundits as simply trying to give impressions of violent extremist action committed by all Hong Kong protesters resulting in a summary judgement of all those who participated in the protests as violent extremists, thus strengthening the political fiction and rhetorical front for Chinese government military action in Hong Kong, as talked about in my previous blog post.Among the cases of toxicity in the extradition bill saga the most severe is the case of pro-Beijing legislator Junius Ho abusing and harassing a female netizen on Facebook [5] On the 9of August, Junius Ho posted a video of the protesters on his Facebook page and described it as a "mafia film". A female netizen commented on his post: "Go report yourself to the police" () to which Junius Ho replied "Go masturbate" (). Protester netizens then quickly flocked the post accusing Ho of abuse and sexual harassment. Ho responded to the accusations with a Facebook post, claiming "there is no such thing as harassment towards cockroaches! Besides, we don't know if it is male or female!" () The actions of Junius Ho explains itself as well as the toxicity against protesters by pro-Beijing officeholders and pundits and require no explanation of intent by me.(Note: Part II will come in a few days)