• yunxiaoli
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      16 hours ago

      ~300k vs 1.4 billion. That’s the definition of a minority.

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        6 hours ago

        That’s not an honest comparison.

        You have chosen the police-reported number of protesters (338 K) instead of 2 M reported by other sources.

        You have also made a false comparison between Hong Kong (~10 M people) and the entire population of China. I recommend to use percentages. Up to 20% of the local population showed up to protest. More were dissatisfied.

        What number of Chinese would show up to protest if a hot topic would appear and the regime would seem weak for a moment, is unknown.

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          3 hours ago

          So you said all that to say they’re the minority and didn’t have enough members to vote, so we should listen to said minority because they protested not getting their way because they didn’t represent the majority viewpoint.

          That’s called tyranny, little one. China is a democracy. You have a problem, get educated, run for office and get voted in. If your problem is widespread then you’ll have no problem winning an election on it.