Summary
A white SUV was driven into a crowd outside Yong’an Primary School in Hunan, China, injuring several students and adults.
Parents and bystanders subdued the driver, who was handed to police.
While no life-threatening injuries were reported, this is the third crowd attack in China this week, raising alarms about public safety.
The incidents have ignited online discussions about the growing trend of “taking revenge on society,” where individuals target strangers in response to personal grievances.
ML: “this isn’t real”
But have you seen the school shootings in the US? Failed state
The fuck is happening in the past few weeks in china? Loads of these kinds of incidents all of a sudden?
The sudden part could be an increase in the frequency of such events, or just news that made it out of state censoring
Probably economic and sociological issues.
Low mental health access, lack of cultural concern/respect for alienated groups, lack of welfare and social safety nets.
The usual stuff that makes people feel like they have no future, and resentful of others.
I was told this is not an issue in China. /S
But actually this is a serious issue and as far as western readers are concerned, this perception issue speaks to the filtered way media / news makes it out of the region
The only thing that’s new is the foreign spotlight unfortunately
I was going to ask if this is common and just get reported recently or if something was going on.
Is it fairly “normal”?
According to police records, there have been 19 incidents of indiscriminate violence in China this year in which the perpetrator was not known to the victims. Sixty-three people have been killed and 166 injured in these attacks. This is a sharp increase on previous years - 16 killed and 40 injured in 2023, for instance. While the incidents are still sporadic and rare, they are high-profile. And the videos that often circulate soon after on social media have prompted concern and fear among people. “These are symptoms of a society with a lot of pent-up grievances,” Lynette Ong, distinguished professor of Chinese politics at Canada’s University of Toronto, told AFP. “Some people resort to giving up. Others, if they’re angry, want to take revenge.” A slowing economy, high youth unemployment and a property crisis that has hurt savings have led to increasing uncertainty about the future among Chinese people.
Our American culture is starting to make its way across the ocean.
If you can’t discuss your grievances online, easiest way to share them is a copycat crime.
The more stressors we put on people the more we force them to lash out.
If we detach survival from work that would remove most stressors from people’s lives. And in our world of insane overproduction and excess we can afford to make that transition.
Sad. There’s no memory hole big enough for the party to hide this kind of thing down.
