Friday, May 08, 2015

The Dark Age

"The Dark Age" was a concert held at the Lingnan University in Hong Kong last month. It stirred up a big controversy because some of the lyrics contain foul language against the police. The pro-establishment groups for sure didn't miss this opportunity to (once again) vilify the student dissidents. Well, shouldn't people be angry and couldn't they sing to condemn the injustice of police violently beating up ordinary citizen which went unpunished? (Here's a statement from the band) I strongly agree with them that the establishment is trying to brainwash the people to blindly subordinate to the power without questioning it.

It's even sadder to see that the president of Lingnan not only didn't stand up for the freedom of speech on his campus (the band members were not students of Lingnan) but actually sided with the establishment. (Here is an open letter from Lingnan students to the president) 

Regardless of the controversy,  the band 血汗攻闖 showed a lot of promises. Check out their video:


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