5/23/2023 0 Comments Society of the spectacle book![]() ![]() ![]() At first the government churned out propaganda that labeled those protests as a counterrevolutionary rebellion that had to be suppressed. ![]() Then, state-induced amnesia was imposed gradually. It’s the same playbook China used after violently crushing the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing. Revisionism - with its ancillary altering or obliteration of memory - is an act of repression. But authorities aren’t merely choking off future protest they are attempting to rewrite Hong Kong’s history. It was just one example of how Hong Kong, a global, tech-savvy city whose protests were once livestreamed around the world, is being transformed. One participant said the protesters, who were opposed to a land reclamation project, were “ herded like sheep.” This odd spectacle last month was Hong Kong’s first authorized protest in three years - highly choreographed, surveilled and regulated, even though it was not an explicitly antigovernment demonstration, and a world away from the crowds that thronged streets in 2019 to protest China’s tightening grip on the city. ![]() The group of about 80 protesters wore numbered lanyards around their necks and cordoned themselves off with tape as they marched, like a crime scene in motion. ![]()
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