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Scholars who resigned collectively from a neighborhood committee in Shanghai: officials resisted | Psychological breakdown | Totalitarianism

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Scholars who resigned collectively from a neighborhood committee in Shanghai: officials resisted | Psychological breakdown | Totalitarianism

[The Epoch Times, April 12, 2022](The Epoch Times reporters Luo Ya and Cheng Jing interviewed and reported) The closure of the city in Shanghai has caused public grievances to boil. Recently, news of the resignation of residents’ committee members and the collective resignation of residents’ committees has been revealed. Their complaints are on the front line. The implementation of the city closure measures is under pressure from top to bottom, in a dilemma, and many people are psychologically broken. Scholars have analyzed that despite the totalitarian regime of the CCP, at least some officials are now resisting.

Many residents’ committees in Shanghai said they could not bear the psychological breakdown

During the anti-epidemic closure of Shanghai, many secondary disasters occurred. As a government grassroots unit, the neighborhood committee is responsible for implementing the closure and control measures on the front line, organizing nucleic acid testing of the public, and distributing materials. Sandwiched between the government and the public, the neighborhood committee is exhausted physically and mentally. Recently, it has been reported that several neighborhood committee members have publicly resigned.

Sanlin Town Hancheng Neighborhood Committee resigns collectively: unbearable

The Shanghai Hancheng Neighborhood Committee issued an open letter to residents on the 9th, stating that all the staff had been sealed in the neighborhood committee since March 17, and had given up their families and their lives for 24 days.

“We are also doing our best to cooperate with the government’s policies. Everyone and all departments want us to understand and cooperate, but no one understands us… There are times when we can’t bear it.” This time, “We are leaving.”

The Shanghai Hancheng Neighborhood Committee also issued an open letter of farewell to residents on the 9th. (web screenshot)

The Epoch Times reporter called the neighborhood committee several times, but no one answered the phone.

The Epoch Times reporter called the neighboring Renwen neighborhood committee and asked the neighborhood neighborhood committee next door to resign. If the residents of the neighborhood could call them if something happened, a staff member on the other side said, “That’s right (resigned). But on their side. , we can’t get past here.”

The reporter asked if they gave up because the pressure was too great. The staff of the Renwen Residential Committee replied: “The pressure is indeed quite large.”

Another housing committee on the same road as the Hancheng Neighborhood Committee also admitted to reporters that the pressure is quite high, “We can support it anyway,” “But we don’t know when we will not be able to do it. At present, there are many contradictions. point, so we really can only hold on.”

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She disclosed that the problem of bathing in their community has not been solved. “The superiors asked us to try our best to overcome the difficulties, and they have no real solution. Because many hotels have been requisitioned by the government for isolation. So there is no way to give us such public places as bathing.”

She also mentioned the matter of residents ordering food, “These large packages from the government are too big, we just want to help, but their group purchases are also too large, or some ordinary people are not willing to spend so much money to hoard unnecessary items. So we are also very helpless. After all, we are also small citizens.” She said.

Neighborhood Committee: The above deceives and conceals the people’s endless waiting, which is really chilling

Yesterday (10th), the neighborhood committee near Caiyuqiao subway station in northeast Pudong posted a long Weibo, detailing the community’s experience in fighting the epidemic since March 18th. The neighborhood committee said on Weibo that he finally broke down in the face of the endless nucleic acid testing and lockdown policies for all employees.

The article stated that 30 days ago, 7 rounds of nucleic acid have been done for all staff. All the surrounding communities were occupied. Although all members of the community had undergone nucleic acid tests several times, the community where she was located eventually became positive and broke out. Even the community property and the neighborhood committee were also positive.

The article wrote, “I began to realize that the loopholes in the community are really big. It is bigger and bigger than the upper-level leaders imagined. It is so big that we can’t control it. It is so big that the neighborhood committee and the property are all destroyed…”

However, when I report public opinion to the superiors, there is never any follow-up. “The chaos of group buying in the community and the complaints of the residents are beyond my personal ability… The information of the neighborhood committee is seriously lagging behind. The residents’ public opinion reflected by the neighborhood committee will never be followed.”

She mentioned that a family with two children in her community was sent to a centralized isolation point that was devoid of management and inhuman, which brought her “to the brink of collapse.”

She said: “I’m really chilled. It’s not the lack of prevention and control, or the lack of people’s livelihood, but the repeated deception, the repeated concealment and the endless waiting.”

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The netizen’s Weibo account “Light Yellow Willow Dark Perched Crow” said in a thread that it was the most tiring work and the most poisonous scolding. With the so-called lowest treatment in the system, you also have to bear the reputation of the correct decision-making above and the wrong scriptures below.

The resignation letter of the Changli Garden community secretary was confirmed: many people collapsed

Earlier, Wu Yingchuan, secretary of Shanghai Pudong Changli Garden Community, also issued a letter of resignation. He revealed that the CDC’s information was lagging behind, and the epidemic prevention arrangements were extremely opaque, and the neighborhood committee could not grasp who was positive and who was in close contact.

He also said that residents asked them about relevant policies and the time of unblocking. “There are too many things that our grassroots need to know the first time, and we don’t know.” In the face of residents whose health is threatened due to discontinuation of medicines, and residents who must go to the hospital for chemotherapy or dialysis, the neighborhood committee helped arrange vehicles, but the answer they received was to wait.

He said that due to the overloaded work and physical exhaustion, several security guards have collapsed, and one person has been infected. “Some lesbians have even broken down emotionally, cried a lot, and made countless phone calls every day. We are unable to bear and answer the demands.”

The resignation letter stated that the order issued by the superior was a death order and must be implemented. And “the people who gave the death orders were people who had never been to the nucleic acid test site, and they might not even know… How many front-line workers and volunteers might be infected, and how many people would have no sleep?”

The Epoch Times reporter called the office of the neighborhood committee and confirmed that the open letter was genuine, but the secretary did not resign and was still at work.

Scholars: There are two factors in the prevalence of totalitarianism, some people in China are resisting

Regarding the resignation of several grass-roots officials in Shanghai, Professor Feng Chongyi, a China expert at the University of Technology Sydney, told The Epoch Times that at least some people in China are now resisting, unlike the totalitarian North Korea, who has no sense of resistance at all. But in China there is a sense of resistance among the people and among the officials, but it’s not big enough right now.

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“A neighborhood committee resigned en masse. It’s alright if I quit. If these officials don’t follow the ‘law of Wushamao’, he can be relieved.”

Feng Chongyi said, “However, most officials are reluctant to bear the black gauze cap and their privileges, and if they want to stand in that position, they will not have the courage to resist; (but what they will face in the future) is not only the issue of dismissal and throwing the gauze cap, but also the follow-up punishment. It’s the ugly, cruel place of this rule.”

Feng Chongyi analyzed that the totalitarian rule of the CCP has two factors that interact with each other. One is the “banal evil” that Hannah Arendt said. Its officials are governed by the law of Wushamao, “the above instructions, no matter how absurd, inhuman and cruel, must be carried out, and he put his conscience aside”.

The example cited by Arendt is typical. Feng Chongyi said, “It was the fascist soldiers who shot and killed innocent civilians. In the end, in the post-war trial, the same defense was that the soldiers carried out orders. This is the evil of mediocrity.” He said, “Top and bottom The officials under him, for his safety, for his promotion, for all his good, carry out cruel and absurd orders.”

On the other hand, Feng Chongyi said that the top of the totalitarian regime is at the top, and Xi Jinping wants to maintain his authority, and the number of sacrifices below is not the main consideration.

“The first consideration is to maintain power and maintain the consolidation of the regime, so the slogan ‘whatever it takes’ is often issued. This price includes the lives of ordinary people, including all positives being stuffed into square cabins, and even babies born soon…, this It’s a secondary humanitarian disaster.”

Feng Chongyi said that most people are still mediocre evil, and they still have to keep their black gauze hats. “These people are still carrying out orders, and he will suppress the resistance of those awakened people, and maintain the state of power for a long time.”

Regarding the resignation of the residents’ committee members, Feng Chongyi said that some people are not afraid of death, “people are not afraid of death, but how can they be afraid of death”, and they don’t care about the black hat. Only then can the critical point of the collapse of the regime be reached.

Responsible editor: Li Qiong#

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