Hello everyone, this is Klaus.
The Tangshan assault case, like the 1976 earthquake,
shook China and the rest of the world,
not only causing public outrage,
but also triggering a wave of reporting across China,
exposing gangsters, city management, police officers, and government officials.
Various kinds of real-name reports have been all over social media.
In addition, ever since the Tangshan assault case,
reporting on criminals has been highly encouraged by the city’s police.
Thus, residents have been lining up for hours at the gate of the police department.
Some trolls said that the assault case was just a stand-alone incident,
and that China as a whole was still a safe place. Bullsh*t!
After the assault, of course, we are more concerned about the safety of the victims.
But the media has been completely silent about those girls.
There have been no interviews with them or their families.
No politicians have visited the victims, and no one has apologized.
Journalists were stopped by the police and national security.
Nowadays, a community permit is required to enter Tangshan.
There’s been no official information, but rumor has it that the assaulted have passed away.
Many locals have laid flowers to pay respect to the victims.
Many people calling for attention to the victims have been censored online.
Some have even received threats to their personal safety.
The person who first posted the video of the assault has been banned.
There is no official statement now, everything is labelled as rumor.
Hundreds of suspended accounts and thousands of deleted posts later,
in the face of all kinds of criticisms online, the state media said that on June 13,
the hospital refused to disclose any information in order to protect the privacy of the victims,
and the police told reporters to contact the propaganda department.
The news headline says, “Women’s Federation fact-checking the death of victims”.
But a closer look at the article shows
Women's Federation is unsure if the hospitalized victims are in the ICU.
You don’t even know if they’re in the ICU. How do you know they’re not dead?
They also said that as requested by their superiors, they must refuse all interviews,
and that people should refer to official statements. In other words,
“Don’t take what I say seriously. The government has the final say.”
On June 16, it was officially reported again that
the victim's death “might definitely not have happened”.
These were only reports by the state media.
On June 21, eleven days after the incident,
a police report finally came out,
“Two girls arriving at the hospital needed no treatment and left on their own.
The other two were hospitalized and have begun to recover from injuries.”
From the original video we can see
that the girls were brutally attacked.
“No treatment” and “left on their own”? These words are so unconvincing.
CCTV footage also shows a girl being dragged to a small alley,
which also has a CCTV camera, whose footage hasn’t been released.
Some people say that all four girls are dead, and that the photo might be fake,
because in the video the girl in white was wearing long pants at first,
but later was shown wearing shorts at the hospital.
There are so many things that don’t make sense, which the official report,
filled with hollow words and no evidence, fails to explain.
Such an official report certainly cannot satisfy people.
In the face of criticisms by the public, trolls were hired for damage control.
They said, “What's wrong if the victims don't come out?
Is it wrong for the government to protect the victims' privacy?
You people just want to see them die,
so you can gain traffic and profit from their corpses.”
Media investigation was refused for the sake of the victims’ privacy,
so it is impossible to know the truth via any evidence.
Since we have no evidence, let's use logic instead.
Since when did the Chinese government care so much about protecting people’s privacy?
This time, despite so many criticisms by the public,
the Chinese government still insists on protecting the victims’ privacy?
Is that the China I know?
Do you believe it? I don't.
I don't believe the Chinese government will do anything for a few girls’ privacy,
and risk being criticized by the public,
thereby losing face and its image of authority.
China spent money and manpower on banning interviews and censoring online speech,
just for the sake of a few people's privacy?
I think the UN should issue a plaque to China,
"The world's NO. 1 country at privacy protection", a title well deserved.
Little Pinks and red trolls, feel free to bullsh*t in the comments.
If the victims were really fine like the officials said,
the Chinese government wouldn’t have given a damn about their privacy.
The victims would’ve been forced to voice their support for the government,
because that would restore the government’s image of authority.
In China, for the sake of the country and the government,
sacrificing oneself is considered “positive energy” and textbook material!
What does privacy amount to?
Since Peng disappeared after she exposed senior official Zhang Gaoli,
international media and many sports stars have been concerned about Peng.
The Chinese Communist Party had no problem letting Peng show up again and again.
She attended all kinds of events, and had to be filmed even when having a meal.
China also revealed the contents of her email sent to the International Tennis Federation.
Do stars have no privacy?
Thus, things aren’t looking good for those assault victims.
The same with Xuzhou Mother.
An official report says “undergoing treatment”, and then the victim is heard no more.
People visiting Xuzhou Mother in Feng County have all been arrested.
Being chained like a dog, she had already gone insane,
so what privacy is there to speak of?
You can't believe that the government is protecting her privacy, right?
Rumor has it that she has been murdered.
This is probably true.
In addition, the official report of the victims’ injuries is even more baffling.
The girl who was attacked most brutally was said to have “second degree minor injuries”.
The public will certainly not buy it.
Thus, the state media began to push their narrative,
“Minor injuries are not minor, and serious injuries are very serious.”
They’re simply playing people for a fool and playing with words, aren’t they?
Why not simply redefine “minor injury” as “serious injury” and “serious injury” as “super serious injury”?
Why don’t milk tea shops call small cups “big” and big cups “super big”?
No matter what you call it, a small cup is still a small cup.
The point is, “minor” or “serious” injuries have to do with sentencing.
If it is a minor injury, then the criminals get sentenced to only three years.
In 2016, a female tourist was assaulted in a BBQ restaurant in Lijiang,
and she was horribly disfigured for life,
which was quantified as “minor injury”, and the worst criminal was only sentenced to 3.5 years.
Six months later, after the heat of public outrage had died down,
the accused and the victim reached a settlement, and the victim withdrew the lawsuit.
The assailant did not spend a day in jail.
The law is supposed to protect the weak.
But the law in China only protects those preying on the weak.
No one wants anything bad to happen to the girls.
We hope to expose their status, not because we want a good story.
In today’s Chinese society,
the best way to protect the victims from revenge is to keep an eye on them.
Letting them disappear from public view is definitely not protecting them.
I fully understand why the female tourist in Lijiang withdrew her lawsuit after six months.
Despite all the media attention, they were able to turn serious injuries to minor injuries.
The law sided with the criminals, who'd be out of jail in three years.
How could she dare not accept the deal? What a sad society China is!
After the reform and opening up, China had a period of rapid economic growth,
during which the Chinese made some money.
It was also a time when Little Pinks grew in large numbers.
Due to the pandemic, international pressure and worldwide economic downturn,
the Chinese will become increasingly hostile.
The government will be more draconian in every possible way.
If the past decades have been a period of the rise of Little Pinks,
then the upcoming years, vastly different from the idyllic past,
must be a time of awakening for the Chinese.
Xuzhou Mother and the Tangshan assault case have received so much attention,
because the Chinese are gradually waking up.
Okay, time to hear your comments.
In our last episode, in the light of the “victim-blaming theory”
and gender inequality in China, we talked about the assault case in Tangshan.
Many netizens said that the status of women in China was actually very high,
and that feminists in China did exist.
I certainly do not deny that there are extreme feminists in China.
But generally, the status of women is definitely lower than that of men,
because China is still essentially a society of social Darwinism,
and a male-dominated, patriarchal society.
In terms of political status, how many women hold official positions?
In terms of economic status, most of the wealth in society is still in the hands of men, right?
How many women are on the list of the super rich?
How many men are victims of domestic violence compared to women?
How many men have been trafficked?
I'm going to say something brutal but honest.
I'm not afraid of losing subscribers.
Those who feel that the status of Chinese women is too high and hate feminism
are fundamentally frustrated Chinese men who failed to get along with women.
Simply put, they can't find a girlfriend or a wife.
But you can't take it out on women.
China's family planning has led to an imbalance in the sex ratio.
China's bureaucratic capitalism has led to a huge gap between the rich and the poor.
There are more men than women, and a huge gap between the rich and the poor.
Women have inevitably become materialistic, disliking the poor and loving the rich.
Under such circumstances, if you had a daughter,
you wouldn’t simply give her away to a nobody, would you?
May y'all get out of China and have babies with a foreign partner!
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