As a Chinese person, I’ve noticed these incidents becoming more frequent in recent years. Despite gun control, there have been more knife attacks and vehicle rammings. Many innocent lives have been lost and families shattered, which is deeply distressing and frightening. I often remind my family and friends to be cautious when going out.
Discussing these topics is often restricted or prohibited within China. I’m curious to understand why people who want to ‘take revenge on society’ harm strangers who are defenseless and unknown to them. Logically, this behavior is hard to comprehend. There’s an old Chinese saying that roughly translates to ‘revenge should be directed at the source of the grievance.’ If someone has been wronged and feels desperate, shouldn’t they confront those who harmed them directly? By attacking random strangers, only innocent people suffer while those responsible remain unaffected.
I’m deeply saddened by this situation and am seeking insights. This is my first post on Lemmy, and I hope people can explain this issue or recommend books or videos that address the reasons behind such behaviors. Thank you very much.
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Unfortunately, I think most of the users here have no insight into every day Chinese life - myself included… in fact if not from your post, I would have had no idea this is a thing.
Anyhow, this is disgusting behavior, and I can’t really rationalize it.
Though for a lot of people, the source of grievance is pretty abstract. They could be victims of the system, and taking it revenge in that is difficult.
Desperation - China’s infinite boom years are over and working conditions in lucrative jobs are fucking miserable. A lot of the youths are just refusing to participate in the economy at this point.
I think the main reason is feeling disconnected from society.
I have no idea because of the reasons you stated. These knife attacks are sometimes reported in Western media but the motif of the attacker is never revealed.
I can make an estimated guess but I don’t feel like that is fair to the victims as it may seem as a justification.
Desperation breeds crime authoritarianism doesnt fix the problem.
I cannot speak for such individuals and I wouldn’t say anyone can speak for another’s intentions, but historically, it has been said that, if tragedy becomes an expected effect of authority carrying out undesired action, the authority would think twice. What comes off as odd though is here we have overly consequential thinking on both sides. There’s a quote that comes to mind, “avenge smarter not harder”, and I look down on those who spread the fight like that.
Likely a combination of increased financial stress and mental illness. If they can’t be happy, why should others be?
Some people think that everyone is complicit in their torments.
我觉得有两个不同的情况。
第一是几乎随机暴力事情。幼儿园刀杀很普遍的。他们觉得社会错，不敢或者不能想到政治上的原因。就觉得他们自己或者＂完美＂社会有矛盾。 还有儿童是社会的未来。去抹杀他们是攻击社会的未来。
第二是跟最近几个月的中国人去抹杀住在中国的日本人的案子。这些明显跟中国政治台上说的话有关的。
不好意思我中文有点差，还在学习。
是的，你说的对，并且语法清晰流畅。 只是针对日本孩子的那个案例与我想说的不同。那个案子是一起有预谋有组织的针对在中国上学的10岁日本儿童进行的极端民族主义袭击，背后有更深层的恶意和目的，也很让人愤怒和难过。
嗯，嗯。还谢谢你的话。老师说简单的说人才能懂我的意思。说英语的时候我太爱用复杂的句子。
民族主义不是第一种的原因。但是我还是觉得攻击者的背景会有相同的。 我认为他们跟美国的乱开枪者类似。18-50岁男的，生活不愉快，感觉没得到应该得到的东西（钱，女人，房子，工作）。
还有我记得看到外交部说那个孩子还有那个女交通司机被杀了和他们的话没关系不仅不对，而且丢脸和尊重。 其实我还觉得那些幼儿园攻击的受害者家人更难过因为他们的丧亲是不能公之于众。那样太难过。
不能将自己的遭遇公之于众是在中国的普遍现象，有一方面原因是害怕其他人效仿造成更多的伤害，但另一方面也使得受害者家庭失去更多争取自己权益与申诉的机会，这种现象也让不少受害者家庭感到无奈和悲哀。不仅限于袭击事件，也包括食品安全，校园安全，欠薪，非法辞退，买房被骗，医疗等领域。
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“As a” right off the bat, no effort to back up the claims being made (instead assuming that people will automatically trust them), coming from an account that has no previous interaction with the platform, from a user who’s clearly used enough to Lemmy to know where to post questions and how to format them…
I’d strongly advise caution towards this post.
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This is my first post on Lemmy.
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I also use Reddit, but this particular post couldn’t get through on Reddit.
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The format of the post was written using ChatGPT. My English is poor, making normal communication difficult, so I can’t enjoy English interactions. That’s why I haven’t responded to or interacted with any replies.
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I swear everything I said is true. If you want to know more, it’s easy to find various news articles that can verify the authenticity of my post, as these situations have been occurring frequently in China over the past two years.
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For general questions, I would ask on platforms I’m familiar with, but this question couldn’t possibly be successfully posted on Chinese forums, which is why I’m asking here.
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I was a bit emotional while editing the post, and I apologize for that.
It’s very close to a US election and people are being bombarded with highly emotionally charged stories and political information all day and everyone is a bit on edge currently. There’s also a pretty large amount of sinophobia on this platform in general too. I don’t have an answer to your question, but please try not to take what others might say too personally.
Alright, thank you for your suggestion. I don’t intend to lead anyone into any politically-related discussions. I’m simply hoping to obtain logical explanations from a psychological or sociological perspective, from the standpoint of ordinary people, regarding these dangerous incidents. I truly don’t have experience communicating in English-language forums. I will learn more and pay closer attention in the future.
You’ve done nothing wrong, however even if your question is not political certain people will try to make it political. Things will calm down a bit in about a month.
A lot of details regarding day to day Chinese life is not available to the Western world. You may have trouble finding an answer that’s based on actual evidence, but people are very similar despite where they live and their motives will be comparable. People here will definitely be able to help you in that regard.
So basically your source is “trust me” = “I expect you all to be gullible”???
Put yourself in the situation of everyone else. From your PoV if you’re being honest or bullshitting is obvious; for us (reading your comment) it is not, all we see is someone on the internet claiming something about a population with almost no Lemmy demographic (so it’s easy to bullshit and get away with it). In those situations caution is advised.
For a loose equivalent, imagine someone claiming in a Chinese language forum “I’m from UK/France/Germany, I can confirm that I see a mass shooting here every day, the king/president/prime minister has been almost shot but they’re silencing news about it”… it feels fishy, right?
If your comment is 1) honest and 2) true then I apologise, but we [people in general] shouldn’t take something as true simply because someone else said.
Okay, I found a news article for you from last month. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78lk3gxk8mo, please take a look at it. Today in our country, another person set their vehicle on fire and crashed it into a school. You can search for more information; everything I’m saying is true.
Thank you.
And now, in a clearer way: I apologise for the suspicion. As someone else said here, since American elections are going on, there’s a lot of misinformation surrounding China - both the population/the Chinese and the government/PCC.
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Current globalist regime over works people which causes mental problems… If you are not working, you are poor, which causes me tal problems.
If you do this to everyone all the time, there will always be able with mental problems that they can’t control and they will do this.
