[kaehurowing]

The “protestors” are basically the Hong Kong version of Antifa.

[CondorFlight]

The “protesters”are virtually the entire adult population of Hong Kong (more than two million) who turned out to protest the violation of the British-China agreement and the restriction of their rights under that agreement.

[ifinnegan]

“The “protestors” are basically the Hong Kong version of Antifa.”

Protestors are anti-communist.

Not comparable to antifa.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Your evidence?

[Zhang Fei]

[The “protestors” are basically the Hong Kong version of Antifa.]

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They want what they cannot have - a Hong Kong free to decide its own future. I’d say they’re a little like the participants in the Guangzhou uprisings or the Boston Massacre - they’re prepared for burial in an anonymous mass grave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhai_Revolution#First_Guangzhou_Uprising
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Guangzhou_Uprising
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre

Do they want to die? Presumably not. But are they willing to risk their lives despite the unknowable possibility of a positive outcome? Yes, just as the Patriots prepared to take on the British Army that had just defeated the French in the Canadian provinces.

The principal difference between Hong Kong’s protestors and the Antifa - isn’t just ideology (Antifa are Marxist totalitarians, whereas the HK protestors are opposed to Marxist totalitarians) - is that the Antifa know that Democratic municipal governments are not only sympathetic to their cause, but will actively assist them. Whereas Hong Kong’s protestors are in real danger, with handful already killed by the police.

Re destruction of property belonging to Party-loving businessmen in Hong Kong, the Patriots weren’t exactly into treating Loyalists with kid gloves:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalist_(American_Revolution)#Numbers_of_Loyalists
[In areas under Patriot control, Loyalists were subject to confiscation of property, and outspoken supporters of the king were threatened with public humiliation such as tarring and feathering, or physical attack. It is not known how many Loyalist civilians were harassed by the Patriots, but the treatment was a warning to other Loyalists not to take up arms. In September 1775, William Drayton and Loyalist leader Colonel Thomas Fletchall signed a treaty of neutrality in the interior community of Ninety Six, South Carolina.[27] For actively aiding the British army when it occupied Philadelphia, two residents of the city were tried for treason, convicted, and executed by returning Patriot forces.[28]]

[Zhang Fei]

I’d say in some ways, HK protestors are more courageous than the participants in the Guangzhou uprisings. Sun Yat-sen and his band of revolutionaries were raising funds for weaponry, acquiring and smuggling arms to where mass actions were planned, training revolutionaries and suborning soldiers and commanders in the existing Imperial Chinese Army. These kids are flying blind. And they know what happened at Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.