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On the streets of Hong Kong, protesting students have found a novel way to assail their opponents. They sing “Happy Birthday.”

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Lusty choruses of the song—in English—rang out in the working-class neighborhood of Mong Kok last week when thugs descended to try to break up the sit-in demonstrations there. The crowds would engulf a hostile interloper and strike up the melody.

It was musical mockery; the equivalent of the medieval pillory designed to publicly embarrass and humiliate.

On a much wider scale, this tactic has proved remarkably effective—and it will remain so even if police action this week to remove the barricades ultimately heralds the crumbling of the student-led movement. Over the past two weeks, the students have poured scorn on a proposed electoral system to select the territory’s next leader that purports to bestow universal suffrage but that will, in reality, be a popular vote only for candidates preapproved by a committee stacked with pro-Beijing members.

Large sections of the population appear to agree with the students, although there’s widespread frustration at the way protests have disrupted life in the city. Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets to demand an open nomination process for candidates in the next leadership vote in 2017.

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