Liang Jian | You can’t touch a tiger’s butt

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First, close the comment section, then close the article, and finally, close the account.

Yes, 【Liangjian】 has been put in the small dark room for another half a month.

The article in violation involved the Suzhou police. I was just expressing mild criticism, but it was not allowed.

You can’t touch the tiger’s backside; singing praises is still safe.

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I don’t know how many times 【Liangjian】 has been blocked. Although some people say that being banned is a kind of honor without a medal ceremony, the frequent blocking of accounts may be a blow to a writer that others cannot truly experience.

That deep sense of powerlessness will make you doubt the meaning of your voice, and it will also make you unable to figure out the boundaries of safety.

Regarding extreme nationalism, I have never easily touched it. It’s not because it will attract insults and trouble. After writing for so many years, these things can no longer harm me.

But because, for some people, facts and reason simply don’t work. For example, they righteously question why the Japanese can open schools in our territory, and why Japanese schools don’t recruit Chinese students. You say that Japanese schools are approved by the State Council, and not recruiting Chinese students is stipulated by law, but they say you are whitewashing and call you a traitor.

Once certain ideas take root in the mind, facts can be completely ignored, and reason cannot be heard at all.

Not easily touching the topic of extreme nationalism is also because guarding a cesspool and swatting flies is doomed to be futile. If there were no years of indulgence and guidance from the high-level, where would so much distant and ethereal hatred and evil come from? That is not something that can be dispelled by one or two articles.

Therefore, from this perspective, I am not so optimistic about the recent announcements from major media platforms regarding the crackdown on “inciting Sino-Japanese confrontation and provoking extreme nationalism.” After raising the Gu for a long time, and only thinking about healing when the disease is incurable, isn’t it a bit late?

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And what is more worrying is that you want them to curse Japan’s ocean discharge as heinous when needed, and you want them to remain rational about Japanese schools when not needed. This kind of opportunism, which is just right without adding any trouble or crossing the line, is really too demanding. As Liu Shen Leilei said, you can’t expect some people to be stupid just right.

You think the dog you raise only bites enemies and not yourself, but you don’t know that when the dog goes crazy, it bites anyone it sees, regardless of master or servant.

Therefore, for those who play games behind the scenes, it is easy to ban those who touch the tiger’s backside; just move a finger. But to tie the dog leash just right, to take and give as they please, is not so simple.

The most dangerous people are not us, who only wield pens.

Still worry about what should be worried about.

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