The Blank Paper Revolution: An Unforgettable Xinjiang, and Some Thoughts

Since the fire started on November 24 in the Jixiangyuan Community in Tianshan District, Urumqi, it has been burning for five days and five nights. People from all over China have continued to protest with blank papers in their hands, and the police have repeatedly reinforced them. But just like the cover of this article I set up, "Urumqi Middle Road", this street sign in Shanghai, has attracted more solidarity after the government was abolished. Yes, they are afraid of even a street sign. From then on, "Urumqi" in the whole of China may become a sensitive word and be monitored (still joking, but what if?)

However, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that among the victims who unfortunately died due to the fire, the most widely circulated photo was a photo of a mother and her four children, and the source was an English tweet, not a domestic media report. As for the story behind this family, I only saw the CNN reporter's video report on this family today . If the domestic media is still limited to Xinjiang's "sensitivity" and cannot collect news, what about us? In addition to the sound of silence for the deceased, why don't we ask one more question: What kind of family are they? Where is the child's father? Are there relatives in Urumqi who can take care of their funeral?

We can't just look at the fact that Xinjiang has been closed for more than 100 days this year.

In other words, if we fail to ask more questions, is it because we Han people have not noticed how Xinjiang has been treated since the 7.5 incident? If the white paper revolution is in full swing in the past five days, why were the figures of the people who walked out of the community in Urumqi late at night quickly dispersed by Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Chongqing, etc.? Not only must we continue to question the students who were taken away and the brave protesters, but we must also ask: "Where are the people in Xinjiang?"

Because we have been absent from the Xinjiang issue for too long, my friends. Just as the media reported that people in Hong Kong also stood up to support the mainland, "The political risk is greater, but 'at least hope has been planted' ." The political risk is not only greater in Hong Kong, but also in Xinjiang. If non-Han people in Xinjiang go to other provinces and cities in the mainland, they will be asked about their travel purposes, their passports will be confiscated, they will not be able to go abroad freely, and the meat sellers in the vegetable market will have their knives chained to the table... If we are Han people People, if you are not ready to ask why all this happened, how long it lasted, and whether it caused problems, we really don’t respect ourselves at all, because we don’t respect people, we respect every living and living person in Xinjiang. people.

If a reader asks at this time, "Do you know that Uyghurs drove to Tiananmen, stabbed people at Kunming Railway Station, and the horror of 7.5? Why didn't you die then?" I would reply: "Thank you You, without your question, this article would not be complete." If we Chinese mainlanders have the opportunity to travel abroad, we must feel a little nervous when taking public transportation: Hey, where is my security checkpoint? When we wondered whether we missed the security checkpoint, clicked the traffic card with the flow of people, and then got on the bus, we could react: Oh, there is no such thing.

I don’t know how many people find it convenient and fast when they think that there is no need for security checks in foreign subways. Forced to carry it onto the transfer platform, I feel a little bit complaining in my heart. Why, why are we so used to being regarded as a "potential criminal", and then open up the privacy that should be tightly protected, to prove an "unnecessary but necessary" innocence. But it’s nothing more than just taking the subway. People in Xinjiang have to show their ID cards even when entering and exiting shopping malls. In the whole area, except for the Han people, everyone will be regarded as a "potential criminal" from birth. At such a time, They've been around for over ten years. Friends, I don’t know if the police in Xinjiang are too weak, or the laws in Xinjiang are different from those in our mainland. Arresting criminal suspects and prosecuting criminals are obviously the business of the police and the law, but they have to use such a method to deal with them. tortured so many people. Is it lack of confidence in the ability of the police? Or distrust of the law? In the past five days, I think everyone has seen the former, but the latter, well, it is understandable.

But not every Uighur is a terrorist, and not every Han is blind. Now that we have eyes, we should look more at what happened in Xinjiang. If the media is choked by the throat, at least you can use the keyboard; if the publishing house cannot publish it, then go listen, watch, record, ask questions, and make your voice heard. This fire was supposed to show all of us what happened in Xinjiang, so I don't want it to disappear from our sight again. I know that even those who really took to the streets because of this fire have different views on Xinjiang independence, Xinjiang re-education camps and Xinjiang cotton. The reason is attributed to the fact that "some residents have poor self-defense and self-rescue ability" and the government whitewashed the peace once. Then why all the previous "peaceful and prosperous times" were really as they said?

And those underlying voices.

Compared with the protests we can see so far, most of the protests took place in 985211 campuses and in first-, second- and third-tier cities. More universities and colleges and small cities and small villages are also suffering from the "zero-clearing policy". For example, those "they" who obeyed the resumption of work and production and planted food, vegetables and fruits, but are still rotten in the ground and cannot be sold, such as "they" who are facing a more closed and unspoken administrative system, and "they" who are also suffering from depression They", where do I hear "them"? Is it Douyin, Kuaishou, or Xiaohongshu? In the past few days, I obviously feel that the number of Weibo that I can browse is not as good as before, and the videos and pictures recommended to me by social media are all quiet and good. At most, some netizens are enjoying the pleasure of online gambling, which makes me have an illusion , Maybe at some point I have put on the earphones of Evelyn ("The Instantaneous Universe"), pressed with both hands, tearing my brain back and forth in multiple spaces.

In addition, the domestic propaganda has obviously begun to turn a corner. Not only has it started to report that nucleic acid companies are making money, but at the same time, the State Council has issued a document to vigorously punish layers of overweight and nucleic acid fraud. I don't know how many people will start to equate "capitalists" with these three years of suffering, and I don't know how many people feel that since the official document is released, then we have hope. Here I sincerely advise everyone: Don't look at what the CCP says, but look at what the CCP has done .

Capitalists do not have the ability to direct epidemic prevention in various places, nor do capitalists have the ability to grant themselves business licenses. Since this company can continue to exist despite several violations, it is obviously not because the capitalists are too powerful, but because "flies do not bite seamless eggs". Interestingly, the mainland's bureaucratic system can be compared to a dried up "loofah". It is full of cracks and not hard at all. It is somewhat useful if it absorbs water, but it is garbage without water.