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| Today’s South China Morning Post |
On the mainland I know from personal experience that no young people know anything about “June 4” (六四 Liu Si) and the Tiananmen massacre.That’s the Great Forgetting.
Then again… how to say this without sliding like an apologist for the horrid Xi Jinping and his regime? Does this addition to the Great Forgetting— appalling as it is — impact on me? On the vast majority of the Hong Kong population? Of course here the retort is Martin Niemöller’s First They Came. The retort to the retort, is “go on then…”
