Car driven into crowd outside primary school in China (www.bbc.com)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 13:30
https://lemmy.world/post/22242978

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.

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NOT_RICK@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 13:37 next collapse

Sad. There’s no memory hole big enough for the party to hide this kind of thing down.

FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 20 Nov 14:26 next collapse

The fuck is happening in the past few weeks in china? Loads of these kinds of incidents all of a sudden?

DarkCloud@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 15:02 next collapse

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.

GBU_28@lemm.ee on 20 Nov 17:24 collapse

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

RandomStickman@fedia.io on 20 Nov 15:17 next collapse

The only thing that's new is the foreign spotlight unfortunately

GetOffMyLan@programming.dev on 20 Nov 15:58 collapse

I was going to ask if this is common and just get reported recently or if something was going on.

Is it fairly “normal”?

ramenshaman@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 19:00 next collapse

Our American culture is starting to make its way across the ocean.

Siegfried@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 22:31 collapse

The sudden part could be an increase in the frequency of such events, or just news that made it out of state censoring

deegeese@sopuli.xyz on 20 Nov 15:51 next collapse

If you can’t discuss your grievances online, easiest way to share them is a copycat crime.

SquatDingloid@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 18:17 collapse

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.

whithom@discuss.online on 20 Nov 18:22 collapse

ML: “this isn’t real”

Siegfried@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 22:30 collapse

But have you seen the school shootings in the US? Failed state