Last night, I forwarded a report from Chengdu 49 Middle School to my circle of friends, and Wang Dongping’s sister, Wang Ziqing (a pseudonym), left me a message.
“I don’t know how to say it, heartbroken. My brother’s matter just did not end. Luckily for this brother, the family is on the hot seat.
I no longer know what to ask for. Especially unreal. “
Yeah, especially surreal.
At the end of 19, I helped her to defend the rights of her dead brother. Wang Dongping also died in a fall, at Wuxi County High School in Chongqing.
Her mother saw the surveillance video of the incident: the teacher scolded Wang Dongping while his classmates laughed at him from below. The teacher asked Wang Dongping to go to the office with him, Wang ran out, he flipped the railing once without success, the second time, he leapt down, the teacher rushed up to pull, not in time.
After Wang Dongping’s accident, Prince Qing rushed home from the northwest, on microblogging, she wrote down her brother’s encounter, microblogging retweeted 20,000, comments 5,000. Many netizens are concerned.
January 14, 2020, the twentieth day of Wang Dongping’s death, this day, Wang Ziqing was called by well tea, the other side said a lot.
There is a sentence I still remember.
If you “make trouble” again, your brother will be cremated.
But the memory of the Internet is always very short, put down the phone, people may forget.
I myself forgot her brother’s name yesterday.
Wang Ziqing is a high school classmate of one of my western political sisters, who asked me to contact her when she was in a state of six minds.
More than a year has passed and I feel that she is still like that.
At that time I was trying hard to talk to her, but she was basically just talking.
After the accident, the school did the most desperate thing by expelling Wang Dongping’s mother.
Wang Dongping’s mother turned out to be a high school cafeteria worker, and I couldn’t figure it out. I asked Wang Ziqing, why must your mother be expelled?
She said that the school felt that you can’t be allowed to be in school after this happened to your son. The school gave “humanitarian” compensation for Wang Dongping’s death, but expelled his mother without giving any compensation or reparation.
The compensation agreement offered by the school made me realize for the first time that the last link in the cold “circular” assembly line wrapped in humanitarian rhetoric – -The school’s humanitarian concern.
The school, with humanitarian concern, expressed its deep sorrow for the family and offered them a pension. After receiving the pension, the family is not allowed to harass the school in any way, including lawsuits or media coverage.
Sister Wang Dongping said to me.
I don’t understand why a person’s death is so unimportant. My brother’s death is not their concern, what they care most is that we do not go to trouble, our families should be emotionally stable.
Now there is a saying on the Internet that “the family is basically emotionally stable”, which is a necessary phrase in the government’s announcement when responding to such incidents.
To see if the family is emotionally stable and not overly aggressive, it is not to treat them as victims, not to comfort them.
Basically, the conversation with the family of the student who fell is.
We are deeply saddened by the loss of your child, but you should not talk about it on the Internet, which affects our image, (at least 500 words on the issue of silence are omitted thereafter)
Only half a sentence, express “deeply saddened”, the next will say 10 sentences, 20 sentences, 30 sentences or even take two hours to give you a meeting, let you do not accept the media interview, let you do not talk. You are told not to talk.
That’s the pattern of dealing with these kinds of issues. Every day, it happens in a cycle.
We’re in that cycle.
This cycle is not only for suicide, but also for being sexually assaulted, being treated unfairly, and then last year, for example, someone’s school records were stolen, and a lot of these are dealt with in this way.
You can just not bring it up, just keep quiet.
Once you bring it up, well, we have a circular mechanism to control you, to control you inside this system, you are great, you generate more attention, then well, we have a higher specification circular mechanism to capture you.
We may not be able to break free from this cycle in our lifetime, but we should at least remember that we are in a cycle. We need to remember this.
I also helped with the case of Miao Kexin, a positive essay elementary school student who fell to his death of national concern.
In retrospect, what comes to my mind is the screenshot of the parents group, the group one by one parents: “The teacher is not wrong, point praise. “All the screens are full of praise.
And Miao Kexin had just died not long ago.
I still remember when Miao Kexin’s family approached me, I was still in Baotou on a business trip. It was particularly cold outside in the early morning, and I called her from downstairs. I could feel that the family of Miao Kexin was a very spiritual person.
The family of the deceased must be sad and broken a lot of the time. I could have foreseen all this.
But this family member of Miao Kexin was very good.
After the incident came out, she went to sort out Miao’s belongings, very meticulously. This includes the words of the parents’ group, including some of the photos taken before. She was the one who found the essays that were not positive enough for Miao.
The main reason that Miao Kexin’s story came into the public eye was because of the family.
She posted on Douban, posted on Weibo, and the post on Douban caught fire. A netizen saw it and contacted her and recommended she contact me.
I realized that every day there are many people jumping from buildings, and the mechanism of dealing with the incident is “cyclical” every day, and our lives are practically oblivious to it.
But because the family of Kexin Mu had gathered so much real information, the basic premise of what people saw was there.
May 9, 2021, Mother’s Day, a holiday to relieve mothers of their hard work and celebrate the arrival of their children. At 5:40 p.m., Lin, a sophomore in Chengdu’s Forty-Ninth Middle School, was sent to school by his mother in high spirits. Not long after, he fell to his death.
On May 11, Chengdu Chenghua District Education Bureau official microblogging “Chengdu Chenghua Education Release” announced The official statement was accompanied by a public statement about the death of a student in Chengdu’s 49th Middle School. This “official statement” is accompanied by the public’s questions.
Why is there only a cold result of “ruling out criminal cases” but not a single argument process? What did Lin go through before she died? Can the surveillance video be made public to accept supervision? ……
The crisis of trust has been going on for a long time.
After the official habit of giving the public only unexplained conclusions without making the process of proof scientific and transparent, all kinds of conspiracy theories are bound to emerge.
We are told to take the responsibility of not spreading rumors and not believing them, but they have not taken the responsibility of explaining and justifying them.
Gradually, people prefer to believe in various hypotheses rather than in official conclusions. It can be seen that the “Tacitus trap” prophecy from ancient Rome is not far away.
As for the cause of Lin’s death, there are many versions of the power hypothesis on the internet – a person in a high and powerful position pushed his daughter down the stairs because he took her place to study abroad; and the argument hypothesis – he was provoked to jump down the stairs by the teacher after arguing with him.
As the so-called “insiders” continue to explode more and more “insider”, a “rumor After the “rumors” are disproved and some new and exciting news keeps stimulating people’s nerves, the public opinion field will split into many different camps, and they are bound to be at odds with each other, and the focus will eventually shift from focusing on the facts themselves to confrontation of opinions.
When people only care about what they believe in the “gossip”, the truth seems to be less important. But is that what we want?
In fact, what we want is simple: explanations and arguments about the truth, not conclusions about the truth.
What we want is not a simple official response with no argumentation process and lack of details.
What we want is surveillance videos, statements of the parties involved, and witness testimonies, presenting them to the public in a procedure that we all agree is legal and monitored by public opinion. Like the briefing issued by the Supreme Prosecutor’s investigation into the Bao Yuming case.
What can convince us is a detailed and serious explanation. Even if this is a long time, for the truth can not be slack.
What we are most afraid of – hasty, word-shy, non-responsive to many doubts, and also unquestionable conclusions.
I hope the government will trust our desire for truthful explanations and truthful arguments. And only then will we trust the government.
In this incident, there is another group that cannot be ignored, Lin’s classmates.
In this case, they have a dual identity – the students of Chengdu 49th High School and the witnesses of this incident.
When a small circle school with a well-developed power ecosystem collides with a large circle society, the identities and “obligations” of these students come into conflict.
The students in the small circle, who have not sent any information about the incident, have remained silent since the incident occurred, and there have been statements on the Internet that the students were threatened with restrictions on their entrance exams and transfer to other schools if they spoke out.
As citizens in the larger community, witnesses to a fall with unknown cause of death, they have a duty to society and to life to tell the known truth.
This is not a choice that should be made in a society that is motivated to move on.
A healthy society would give encouragement to people who make the right choices, whereas these students are facing what may be the cost of making the right choices.
If the threats against the students are true, this is a value that does not encourage the truth, but tries to cover it up.
I remember a comment made by Wang Dongping’s sister, who could not understand why his brother
When a student died, the school teachers would not talk to the family much, but kept calling the leaders, calling the police, calling the security guards. But just wouldn’t talk to them much.
Even the security guards wouldn’t talk to them much. The family cried for a while, the security guards called the police, well tea came, and did not say much, directly take away.
Such treatment, so the relatives into a “my son died, we are sorry school, sorry government” feeling.
I even feel that Wang Dongping’s death, in the eyes of some people are guilty.
I had five phone calls with Wang Dongping’s sister, and I actually regretted it, because I was not competent enough at that time, so when I helped him solve the problem and appealed to the public security to provide the surveillance video, it was more from a legal point of view.
I asked my college roommate to write, he studied jurisprudence graduate, but in the end we found that the law in response to this problem, useless.
The people do not say much to you, “talk again, cremate your brother”, after the incident, Prince Qing has not seen the body of his brother, became a bargaining chip to shut her up.
What else can I say about the law ah.
So when I did the Miao Kexin incident, I wanted to learn from the lessons of the Wang Dongping incident, and I hoped I could do it differently, so I asked my friends in literature to come together to interview Miao Kexin’s mother and father.
I remember very clearly that Miao Kexin’s mother mentioned the clothes her child was wearing, and that she saw the wrinkles on her daughter’s clothes at the funeral home, as well as the little flowers on them.
Her mother was in a state of collapse. Her father clearly makes it seem like he is trying to restrain from crying when he speaks.
In the end, compared to Wang Dongping, Miao Kexin’s family is facing more compensation. But if we talk about reasoning, Miao Kexin is a fifth grade student, Wang Dongping is 17 years old, in fact, Wang Dongping’s family should get more, but his family just face a little “humanitarian” compensation and give up all maintenance. “compensation and give up all opportunities to defend their rights.
Moreover, Wang Dongping had surveillance evidence to prove that he was scolded by the teacher, while Miao Kexin had no surveillance video to prove this.
So the difference between them, I think, is that what happened to Miao Kexin was seen by more people.
Miao Miao entered the big circle. The article I asked my literature major friend to interview Miao Kexin’s mother was read by more than 10 million people.
And Wang Dongping’s death was trapped in a small loop in the county town of Wuxi, Chongqing. Well tea threatened his sister, “If you post again, your brother will be cremated immediately. “Send again, put you under arrest”, the school also expelled his mother.
Like Miao Kexin’s family and Chengdu Lin’s mother, I feel that they are both lucky in their misfortune.
They were seen by so many people. There are still so many people speaking out for them.
Although perhaps the only difference is the amount of “humanitarian compensation” they received in the end.
Because the hot search always passes.
In the case of the death of Lin in Chengdu 49 High School, the cycle kicked in when a high school student fell off a building. The relevant authorities quickly intervened to give the results of the investigation and ensure that the various institutions were kept out of this incident.
The school, ambulance, police and crematorium all become essential parts of the cycle as the deceased is on his way to the crematorium.
We will find that as soon as we join the cycle, all the gears are turned and they are actually like each screw being tightened and wound up. Those who are involved then have to follow.
The screws and gears have long been prescribed to work with each other and have a consensus; disinformation, disinformation, and people going from righteous indignation to indifference are also essential links in this cycle. This cycle seems to be insoluble, and it is impossible to break it no matter how the family struggles.
From hot topic to suicide and then to oblivion, this is a cycle in which every one of us is participating.
No matter where you stand, you are participating in this cycle.
Seeking help from the Internet seems to be the only possible path to break out of this little cycle.
If you get attention for your vocal words, “awesome,” you’re in the big loop.
But how many people can really persevere in the midst of a struggle that has almost no marginal value?
We saw that the fall of Lin students, and ultimately failed to break out of this cycle.
At 8pm on May 11, 2021, the official microblogging site of the Chenghua Branch of the Chengdu Public Security Bureau, “Safe Chenghua”, released the latest police bulletin. “…the afternoon of May 11, the public security organs have informed the family of Lin Moumou in accordance with the conclusions of the investigation, the family has no objection to the conclusions of the investigation… “
And this investigation conclusion, and no more detailed than before.
I remembered when I studied abroad, watching the second episode of the first season of the British drama “Black Mirror”. In it, the whole society where people live by running on fitness machines to get points for basic food, drink, and shelter. The main character lives in a cramped glass room surrounded by displays, watching the talent show being offered. Suddenly, one day, he feels that he does not want to live this life.
My life is a lie.
So he went on a reality show. He complained about the fake life on the reality show. But to his surprise, his accusation was dissipated.
The judges said, “That was a really good “performance”.
So his accusation really became a performance, and he had an exclusive show for each episode, and he had a professional talk show.
The end is that he lives in a bigger glass room.
It sounds desperate, it’s all circular, and the ultimate finality may be back to square one.
But it at least gives you hope. Because you still have the time to see hope when standing on high ground.
Of course, the psychological damage of the teacher to the deceased may not really be that great.
My mom is a teacher, and I have relatives in my family who are teachers, and I know that the teacher-student relationship cannot be lopsided to either side.
But what netizens, including me, are after is the detailed causes, explanations and argumentation process for the death –
Can the briefing of the death of a Chinese man not be too simple, not too hasty, not too sketchy?
This is a cold disdain. And this disdain is very often the result of our forgetfulness.
My expectation has always been that the response from Chengdu would be more detailed.
I remember that the results of the investigation into the suicide of Mao Hongtao, secretary of the party committee of Chengdu University, were very detailed. The briefing on the Supreme Prosecutor’s investigation into the Bao Yuming case was also very detailed.
Is this cycle really insoluble? Actually, no.
Many families of unjust cases, I think, have broken through this cycle. Not only are they moving from a small cycle to a large one, they are ushering in the release of their own families as a result.
Like the Nie Shubin case and the Hugger-Jiller pattern, which are known to the legal community, are like this.
The Baotou case and Ge Linlin case, which sparked some attention in 2020, are also considered to have partially broken out of the cycle.
The Nie case and the Hugger case their mothers have not given up and have been pursuing the truth. There are many lawyers, law professors, and journalists who are accompanying them to break out of the cycle. Wang Ran, the daughter in the Baotou case, and Tang Jie, Ge Linlin’s wife, are also.
If you want to get out of the cycle, you have to keep persisting, not just shouting a little.
All people who experience the truth being buried need to have the desire and ability to express it to the public.
If you enter the cycle, you will go in a circle, and it is possible to break free, and it is possible to return to the origin.
Ge Linlin case, the wife who shouted injustice Tang Jie was also highly concerned before, she shouted injustice for her husband’s rolling ball performance art, get many media interviews, shake the video on the millions of plays.
Now, after returning to silence, he lives from this cycle, and back to the original point. But this circular journey is rewarding – Ge Linlin’s second trial reduced his sentence by six years, taking away eight charges.
We have to remember that we are in a cycle. It may be true that we have no way to break free, but it’s important to remember that everything is in order.
As a legal person, I believe that once any rule is established, it must create a cycle. Every aspect of society is disorderly if there is no cycle.
The planets revolve, we go to government departments to do a job, and in fact, we all want to follow the rules. Follow the law, we all follow this cycle.
But many times, why do we have to break free?
We are happy to send our children to school, and at night they fall to their death; we are happy to stay at home, and our son is accused of murder and is shot.
This cycle, which is caught up in, is something that must be broken free.
This cycle is different from the cycle of the free order, which is forced.
Since we are in this cycle, how do we break free?
By persevering, by insisting that there is a centrifugal force, by insisting on moving outward and gradually deviating.
It is a little by little process. In fact, it is not possible to do it all in one go. We have to admit that we are the cycle of Sisyphus pushing the stone.
But many people don’t even have a chance to cycle, and I have a senior sister who is like that.
She is one level below me. I didn’t really know her. In the summer of ’18, she committed suicide, and the findings were that she drank pesticide in her dorm room at Westview.
He was sent to the hospital after the suicide, and while he was still in resuscitation, he sent a fundraising link, and the fundraising was 100,000 yuan, and I helped her actively to raise money at that time.
Later, one of my brothers told me that they were classmates, the girl’s family gave up and raised 100,000 yuan, presumably only to get a funeral expenses.
I contacted his father at that time, I remember the phone call, he was very confused state.
I asked him then: “Do you think well tea investigation in detail? “
I went through her Qzone (her space is open for all to see) and I don’t think she had any psychological problems, Sis was happy, happy, sharing where she went to eat, drink and play every day.
But why did she suddenly drink pesticide?
I suspect that this might be a criminal case and I have doubts about the cause of her death.
I also contacted her roommate, but her roommate was quite cold to me and said, “Brother, you don’t need to care about this, the police have come and have investigated, she just drank pesticide by herself. “
I called her father, I did not have a strong self-media communication ability at that time myself, so I suggested that he go to contact the media, or that the police should be asked to investigate again to raise questions.
Her father listened to me for half a day and popped out two words: “Will do”. But it made people feel numb already. I feel that he is also living.
I have never been able to forget this incident of my senior sister. I was in Shanghai preparing for the exams to study abroad and could not go to Chongqing to investigate.
Now almost 3 years later, some nights I dream that a girl-like person will come and ask me: “Do you know how I died? “
But she just asked me such words, and then also did not tell me the answer.
What happened, I don’t know, will always be a mystery.
I have no way to know the details of the investigation. The incident also did not set off any questions, in short, to give the conclusion is very simple, is that she drank pesticide herself to death. There is no explanation, argument.
Sister died in the hospital after a few days of resuscitation, and I shared a song “Rainbow Mountain” in her memory, because the feeling I was given at the time was this song – suppressed hope.
My sister’s death did not enter the cycle and did not go away again.
All the doubts, not even the possibility of raising them.
I have recently seen a class of views rampant on the Internet: “What is the truth that you who question the conclusion of the official response are chasing? What are you chasing after when the official response has already been given? “
What we are after is not just the conclusion, not just the answer, we want to pursue the detailed arguments and explanations.
Elementary school students do math application problems, have to write out the calculation process, but we are now asking about the loss of a life!
We want to ask for the truth with arguments and explanations, not simple and crude conclusions.
This is something we must remember if we are to break free from the cycle.
Back to the fallen death of Lin in Chengdu’s Forty-nine Middle School.
The night before last, many people gathered at the entrance to shout “truth”, I actually oppose them shouting at the entrance. First of all, this is very dangerous in China. I was worried about their safety.
Secondly, because I don’t think shouting the truth at the door will help break the cycle that we are in, or even that he knows that the cycle we are in is traceable.
He will just remember that he shouted it and the next time another hot take comes along, he continues to participate in another shout.
I don’t think this is a real practice, just a more passionate thing that happened one night, a chance.
A person can do it every time by chance, but what’s the point of that?
Passion comes and goes quickly.
I don’t see it as a way to break the cycle, and I don’t see it as a way to remember the cycle.
I see it as a way to help the police complete the last step inside the cycle: “Chengdu police recently arrested several xx who disturbed the social order, and I hope the general public will maintain the social order. “
In no way do I mean to suggest that the police detain them or curse them for getting caught.
What I mean is that it takes persistence to either remember the cycle or break free from it.
This constancy is not insisting on going to the scene and chanting at every hot time, but rather the Wicker Man, Sisyphus pushing the rock, for days, weeks, months, years as if it were a day.
I still get caught in this cycle over and over again. In addition to accompanying the loved ones of the students who fell, there are many families of the wronged and the loved ones of the victims. We can only break free with them if we stay with them as they fall into it.
Dictation: Taming the Desert
Text: Broken Paddle, Flat Leaf Onion
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