[rolltiide]

What exactly is the sentiment of raising the old British HK flag?

Is it like that would be a preferred status of HK?

Is is like a reference to former puppets running HK, who now report to Beijing instead of Britain?

Is it just trolling?

[HippoBaro]

From what I understand, they largely romanticize the times when Hong Kong was a British colony. However, it seems clear that what the protesters are asking for is ideologically more in-line with a British/Western conception of a democratic society. And because Hong Kong will never be independent and the CCP never democratic, raising the British HK flag is the last thing they can hold on to.

I see it as a testament to their desperation.

[rolltiide]

Interesting.

When I talk to HK citizens I don't really get the sense of desperation. I get the sense of complacency and imaging everything is going to be okay. Carrie Lam has certainly crossed an ideological line, I still think we are projecting our perspective of how Hong Kong citizens are supposed to feel.

[snovv_crash]

It's certainly newsworthy. Perhaps even a journalist might even have asked them...