why hasn't there been looting and rioting in the HK protests?

[BlahBlahYouToo]

the crowd is mostly young adults/students with a grim future. you would think that given a large gathering of the demographic that is most likely to commit crime (18-24 yr olds), combined with a huge distrust of the govt, the conditions are ripe for mass rioting and looting... but the top google search results for "hong kong protest riots looting" make references to the looting in Ferguson MO instead.

looking back at the earthquake in japan a few years ago, amid utter chaos, there was no looting.
contrast that to hurricane katrina, we see people walking out with TV's and beer, clearly items vital to survival.

what is it about asian nations that allows them to maintain social order, whereas we can't?

 

[Ns1]

Because Asians.

 

[xaeniac]

have you seen there swat teams? also the martial arts

 

[natto fire]

Because they don't have a P&N section in their forums?

 

[Printer Bandit]

Cause they respect their parents.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Well, this thread went exactly as expected.

 

[Zorkorist]

This is Hong Kong, a bastian of freedom, until (Jimmy Carter?) gave it back to the Chinese.

I would be very upset too!

-John

 

[someone16]

This is Hong Kong, a bastian of freedom, until (Jimmy Carter?) gave it back to the Chinese.

I would be very upset too!

-John

You know nothing's changed in terms of freedom even after giving it back to the Chinese.

 

[Sixguns]

No blacks? I think that's the answer you are fishing for.

 

[brianmanahan]

No blacks? I think that's the answer you are fishing for.

you are the first one who said it

 

[Ns1]

Oh snap, look at that- an elephant in the room.

 

[jhu]

Or the coups every few years in Thailand: pretty peaceful. Other than the traffic jams, you wouldn't know a coup happened.

 

[Eug]

Jimmy Carter?

 

[OverVolt]

Because they know destroying their own neighborhoods won't solve anything. Like when the race riots drove all the investment out of Detroit and now they're bankrupt.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-29423147

garbage collecting, recycling, keeping off the lawn in the memorial, and picking up eggs that were pelted at them?
what madness is this????

while our version of civil disobedience during Occupy Wall Street "protesters" was public urination and raping women.

 

[Ns1]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-29423147

garbage collecting, recycling, keeping off the lawn in the memorial, and picking up eggs that were pelted at them?
what madness is this????

while our version of civil disobedience during Occupy Wall Street "protesters" was public urination and raping women.

'Murica fuck yeah!!!

 

[mmntech]

Cause they respect their parents.

And know who both their parents are. :sneaky:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-29423147

garbage collecting, recycling, keeping off the lawn in the memorial, and picking up eggs that were pelted at them?
what madness is this????

while our version of civil disobedience during Occupy Wall Street "protesters" was public urination and raping women.

And they're fighting over something that really matters. Occupy was a bunch of smelly hippies and arm chair socialists with no unified goal. Anger for the sake of anger, directed at nobody in particular.

 

[kt]

You know nothing's changed in terms of freedom even after giving it back to the Chinese.

Aww, so gullible.

 

[madoka]

Because they know destroying their own neighborhoods won't solve anything.

Wrong! Rioters can DEMAND that others rebuild everything they destroyed.

http://www.tpnn.com/2014/09/15/ferg...ers-burned-down-or-there-will-be-hell-to-pay/

Now, as Ferguson returns to a semblance of normalcy, some within the community have a message for business owners who had their stores burned and looted:

“You better rebuild the looted and burned stores… or else…”

CBS News dutifully offered the media’s preferred narrative surrounding the Ferguson riots and interviewed three young men, Gunny, Trey and Luciano.

“We tired of being looked at like another species; it ain’t even like we human,” Gunny claimed.

Another, Luciano, claimed, “It ain’t no black and white thing; it’s a police against the people thing.”

While all three men claimed to not have been part of the looting and rioting, they seemed to sympathize with the looters and rioters and CBS explained the lawlessness as a function of high unemployment amongst the black community of Ferguson.

Trey opined, “That’s why people loot; ‘cause they can’t get no job.”

Luciano offered a startling viewpoint and stated,

“To be honest, if they don’t come and restore these neighborhoods for these people, like when you gotta go travel miles to Walmart and to get gas and stuff like that, it should be right here. If they don’t restore this community for people who stay here it’s gonna be hell to pay.”

 

[Ns1]

Wrong! Rioters can DEMAND that others rebuild everything they destroyed.
...
“To be honest, if they don’t come and restore these neighborhoods for these people, like when you gotta go travel miles to Walmart and to get gas and stuff like that, it should be right here. If they don’t restore this community for people who stay here it’s gonna be hell to pay.”

wow.

 

[SlickSnake]

Obviously they understand respect for others. Unlike most people in this country who have none because their parents failed to show or teach them any. Most of our grandparents or great grandparents understood respect though. And they were also raised before the public school systems started to teach kids how to behave instead of the parents. So the the buck stops there where it belongs.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Obviously they understand respect for others. Unlike most people in this country who have none because their parents failed to show or teach them any. Most of our grandparents or great grandparents understood respect though. And they were also raised before the public school systems started to teach kids how to behave instead of the parents. So the the buck stops there where it belongs.

You mean the same grandparents who thought rampant racism and sexism were okay? I can see how people who weren't white middle class men were real respected during that time.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

They did the math. Then never stopped.

 

[WelshBloke]

Because the police will squish their asses with tanks if they play up too much?

 

[WelshBloke]

This is Hong Kong, a bastian of freedom, until (Jimmy Carter?) gave it back to the Chinese.

I would be very upset too!

-John