The Blank Paper Revolution: A protest "without content"

In the early morning of November 28, 2022, all e-commerce platforms and offline stores in mainland China were urgently required to stop selling A4 paper and white cardboard.

Please don't be nervous, I'm joking - but this order may have really been considered by the black hat.

In the past two days, people who have obtained information through some illegal means in mainland China have been watching this scene repeatedly: a piece of white paper was pasted on the billboards and lampposts, and people in police uniforms found a few pieces of white paper from their backpacks , the silent protesters held a blank sheet of paper...nothing was written on the paper, and people didn't shout any slogans, they just stood there silently, as if they were the blank sheet of paper: it could be dyed with any color, And at the same time make all the colors more vivid and eye-catching. As well as the blood-stained masks, red good words, black humor, candlelight and mobile phone lights complement each other, people gather together, someone asks the police, can you give me a hug? The police refused, but everyone else hugged the questioner.

With all the siege, the online censors began to work overtime to delete video pictures and texts, but offline people created more video pictures and texts instead. People who were not at the scene desperately commented and forwarded it. Although everything disappeared without a trace after the sun rose the next day, the voice of resistance was continued. People who took to the street went downstairs, walked out of the gate of the community, followed I stand with everyone under the guidance of bouquets and candlelight. At this moment, I can still see the video of people shouting: "Let people go!" At this moment, I can still see people telling each other to stay safe. To protest, to bring a "Wuhen spare phone", at this moment, in mainland China, you can hear people demanding in Mandarin: "Xi Jinping step down!"

More blank pages began to circulate widely on social media. People outside the wall organized a candlelight vigil to pay tribute to those who died in the fire in Urumqi on 11.24. Those who are capable made posters and translated the protest into English in an attempt to gain more international attention: We stand with the Iranians Together, we stand with Ukraine, we stand with China.

It was a protest no one expected and a "stern moment" to test the censorship imposed by the Chinese government. In the past, everyone who lived in the mainland knew that there were certain words that could not be spoken, certain things that could not be mentioned, and certain streets that could not be seen. But since sheets of blank paper flooded the streets, people were surprised to find that we thought the Sitongqiao incident had little influence, but after taking to the streets, they were full of "no nucleic acid, but freedom". The experience of Xinjiang people in the past ten years has been clearly recorded, and it has also made everyone realize first-hand what it means to be everyone for one, and one for everyone. There are some things we can turn a blind eye to and avoid talking about them, but when we really can't bear it, we are all comrades in front of us and behind us.

If you open your eyes and look at being a "gentle" Chinese, this option is obviously not applicable to the current China. Household killings, culling of pets, casually dragged to shelters with poor conditions, the elderly, pregnant women and children are dying tragically, the future flowers of the country are locked at home, lack of social interaction, resulting in language delay and mental retardation The problem of the declining level of development, the future pillars of the motherland are locked up in the campus, unable to take a bath, unable to go to the classroom to attend classes, the toilet needs to be reserved, the school needs to apply, entertainment is crawling on the ground, or making kittens and puppies out of cardboard comfort. Although the college students are so obedient, they still have to be manipulated by the school or the Youth League Committee, and spend three years of college life in an extremely unhealthy state of mind. If we used to laugh at ourselves that running in the sunset was our lost youth, then the lockdown, masks and online classes, as well as graduation and unemployment are the true portrayal of this generation of young people in China.

But what is the reason for all this? Is it the novel coronavirus Covid-19, imported from abroad who want to go back to the country regardless of epidemic prevention requirements, or the positive virus hidden in frozen food, or the super-spreaders who have been disclosed one by one? I heard people asking: Why do these people go abroad/go out?

But the person who can answer this question has already died in the fire in Urumqi, on a bus transporting asymptomatic infected persons in Guizhou, and at the gate of a hospital that needs a negative nucleic acid result... This grand event Under the zero-clearing policy, each of us ordinary people has paid too much, because we can’t decide whether the volunteer who came to poke his throat is positive for nucleic acid, whether there is an iron chain welded on the door when escaping from a fire, or whether a carrot How much you sell can't determine the life and death of herdsmen's cattle and sheep in the field, the rotting vegetables and fruits in the fields, and the takeaway riders laying on the floor under the overpass. If a country is to keep running, each of our taxpayers contributes to it. But why, such a "powerful", "peaceful" society where "people live and work in peace and contentment" cannot catch any vulnerable groups, but instead creates more vulnerable groups and turns a blind eye to them?

Therefore, the demands of this movement can only be a blank sheet of paper, because no single piece of paper can be filled with the demands of the Chinese people, so it is better not to write anything, just as we have written everything. Those who stood up were not only saddened by the fact that "some residents do not have the ability to defend themselves", but also noticed the fact that has been ignored all along: when we repeatedly back down, those who fell off the cliff will sooner or later be your turn.

Three years of epidemic prevention, decentralization of power to the grassroots, and raising a group of animals who treat themselves like dogs with their bones in their mouths. Putting on white protective clothing, I thought that I could cover the sky with one hand, and the black and white paper without an official seal could be used as a document to notify people to be locked up at home. "The policy above is good, but there is a problem with the implementation below." But if there are frequent and repeated problems at the bottom, then may I ask if the top has the ability to govern the country? After all, you can’t even direct a local sub-district office. The “Twenty Measures” issued by the State Council are imposing. I said last time that it has been three years, even dogma has been taught, but our domestic policy is to insist on zeroing out, abandoning science, and implementing the reality of centralization of power, so that the privacy of every Chinese is safe. Running naked in the sun, melting decency, melting dignity, melting law and justice, melting morality and freedom... In this kind of melting, the words on the blank paper are also forced to disappear, so we only have blank sheets of paper.

The most stringent censorship system can only do nothing to this blank sheet of paper, but fortunately we still have the crime of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble"; if I cannot be judged on words, then Chinese laws can definitely judge me on my mind. The only question is, why is the question of thought so important? In school education, ideology and morality become a subject, or it is titled "politics", that is to say, ideology is a political issue, which is the so-called "ideological" dispute. Let me ask, if there can only be one ideology in China, it would naturally be the important thoughts of Marx, Lenin, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and the Three Represents. In so many baskets, it is a historical necessity for us to accommodate the Chinese Communist Party. Choice, we must pretend that the economic base determines the superstructure, and we must pretend that development is the primary productive force... Is these things guiding ideology, or are they legitimizing political party decision-making? Tell the Chinese people, if you want to ask why the Chinese Communist Party is in power, please see "The inevitable choice of history", if you want to ask why the socialist market economy is implemented, please see "The Economic Base Determines the Superstructure", if you want to ask why the economy is vigorously developed while the education of people's livelihood is underestimated, please see "Development is the primary productive force". It turns out that the alias of political textbooks is "The Book of Answers". If you have any questions about China, please feel free to read the reference answers, as long as the words are reasonable.

This is why Chinese law restricts ordinary people from top to bottom, but does not restrict power from bottom to top. Because we ordinary people have no power, the people have never been the masters of the country but have been ruled by power, the workers and peasants have never united because we have ignored the disadvantaged for too long, and never paid attention to building an effective trade union. Compared with the action initiatives of Hong Kong people and Taiwanese people who have been cramming for two days, I can't help but find that the so-called guidance of Chinese citizens' action initiatives has so many gaps that it is hard for me to imagine that there were eight people in this land. In September 1964, lawyers who owned the entire Weibo united to support the past, and there were journalists with conscience and informative reporting media. The water temperature does not become hot all at once, and I am indeed pessimistic that there will no longer be large-scale protests and demonstrations in China. We are too gentle and obedient, kneeling on the ground obediently waiting for a "Fu" x code," caught "," the Internet is not a lawless place "... But the reality quickly slapped me in the face, making me think that a hundred years later, I can only wait for someone to spit on my tombstone, and I am surprised to find that I can stand up, you Can run out, he can protest loudly.

It turns out that everything is so simple, just like white paper is fragile. But it doesn't matter, we still have a lot of paper, if the kingdom bans white flowers, next time, use the king's favorite red to protest.

"It's an honor to play with all of you."