I’m going to just pull from two of Maciej Cegłowski‘s tweets on this article (@Pinboard on Twitter, idlewords here):
> This is a really tendentious article by the New York Times that makes me question their other Hong Kong coverage. The story the past week isn't an increase in violence by protesters against people; it's a police rampage in which cops shot two schoolkids.
> There is incredible journalism being done here, including by
@nytimes
reporters, but what reaches the front page is bad. David Brooks bullshit, articles like this on "escalating violence", descriptions of emergency law as a "measured step". And we have no public editor to turn to
It's not black or white. Large scale protest without proper leadership can really get out of control by a few small groups. It is probably a mixture of riot control tactics and violence from smaller groups of protesters that don't follow any leadership and overreact without proper strategy.
The Communist Party of China has throughout the protest been dressing up their agents like protesters and having them do bad things. I'm sure there are a few bad apples among the protesters, but I bet most of what you're seeing is actually government agents.
> This is a really tendentious article by the New York Times that makes me question their other Hong Kong coverage. The story the past week isn't an increase in violence by protesters against people; it's a police rampage in which cops shot two schoolkids.
> There is incredible journalism being done here, including by @nytimes reporters, but what reaches the front page is bad. David Brooks bullshit, articles like this on "escalating violence", descriptions of emergency law as a "measured step". And we have no public editor to turn to
Both from this thread: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1181240398603112449