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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.
This is my first post on Lemmy.
I also use Reddit, but this particular post couldn't get through on Reddit.
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.
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.
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.
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.