10/10/2023
Here’s a little gem. At the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China this week, the women’s 100-meters hurdles race was won by a young lady named Lin Yuwei. News sources showed a very touching picture of Ms. Lin embracing one of her competitors.
In the picture we see the embracing hurdlers sideways on. Each, on the hip, is wearing a large black-on-white label showing the number of her lane. Ms. Lin was Lane 6; the lady she’s embracing, Lane 4. So the picture shows a 6 and a 4, prominently, in that order.
Within just a few hours that picture was purged from all Chinese media and social media.
You people aren’t internet savvy at all pic.twitter.com/vnSF8ZGylM
— ❌️ (@MotulX22) October 3, 2023
(Ignore the Community Note — the links don’t work, except for a Tweet, which links to a video, rather than the iconic image.)
Why? Because Chinese people remember key moments in their history by the numbers of month and day. So 6-4 indicates June 4th. That was the day in 1989 when tanks went in to crush the protests in Tiananmen Square.
The ChiComs permit no mention of, or reference to, that in any published materials. It has been very comprehensively flushed down the memory hole. No Chinese person under the age of thirty knows anything about it.
Petty? Sure; but that’s how totalitarians keep control. My guess is, we’ll find out.
What’s that you say? I included this item just in hope of stirring up interest in my novel about 6-4? Now that would be petty of me. Shame on you for thinking it!
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