Hard to speak for how actually widespread this is now, but this began over a decade ago where there were good samaritans being sued by the very people they’d helped up (either fallen over of hit by a vehicle). This led to situations where eventually people would act as “if you didn’t hit them, don’t help them up”. This is where the phrase touching the porcelain (碰瓷) comes from. It’s similar to those dashcam videos of people running up to the car in an effort to pretend to be hit so they can sue the driver for damages.
It’s definitely real (most of the worst incidents I’ve read about were during the mid 2010s) but at the same time it doesn’t mean that good samaritans don’t go out of their way to save or prevent people from dangerous situations (drowning, falling from heights etc). We have similar things happen here in the west where people get attacked and the first reaction of bystanders being to take out their phones to record but it’s not used to portray to the entire population as being uncaring and evil.
As for that subreddit itself, it’s white dominated sprinkled with gusanos with one of its former mods actually openly lamenting that the Japanese didn’t slaughter enough of us on the anniversary of the Nanjing massacre. So they’re crying crocodile tears here and will take every opportunity to portray us as savage subhumans who do not have any decency to help people.
Hard to speak for how actually widespread this is now, but this began over a decade ago where there were good samaritans being sued by the very people they’d helped up (either fallen over of hit by a vehicle). This led to situations where eventually people would act as “if you didn’t hit them, don’t help them up”. This is where the phrase touching the porcelain (碰瓷) comes from. It’s similar to those dashcam videos of people running up to the car in an effort to pretend to be hit so they can sue the driver for damages.
It’s definitely real (most of the worst incidents I’ve read about were during the mid 2010s) but at the same time it doesn’t mean that good samaritans don’t go out of their way to save or prevent people from dangerous situations (drowning, falling from heights etc). We have similar things happen here in the west where people get attacked and the first reaction of bystanders being to take out their phones to record but it’s not used to portray to the entire population as being uncaring and evil.
As for that subreddit itself, it’s white dominated sprinkled with gusanos with one of its former mods actually openly lamenting that the Japanese didn’t slaughter enough of us on the anniversary of the Nanjing massacre. So they’re crying crocodile tears here and will take every opportunity to portray us as savage subhumans who do not have any decency to help people.