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清北人，這些年從未站出來，為任何民生問題，發過聲，也沒有像白紙革命，那群人一樣站出來反抗。
This "never" claim is contradicted by documented protests at both Peking University and Tsinghua University in 2022, including Tsinghua students joining the white-paper protest wave.
Full reasoning
The sentence makes an absolute factual claim — that people from Peking University and Tsinghua University have never stood up, spoken out on livelihood issues, or resisted like the white-paper protests. That is incorrect because there are clear, documented counterexamples.
- On May 15, 2022, AP reported that graduate students at Peking University staged a rare, peaceful protest against the school's lockdown restrictions and a newly erected sheet-metal wall that further confined students.
- On November 27, 2022, Reuters reported that at Tsinghua University, students held a peaceful protest against COVID restrictions. AP separately reported that Tsinghua students demonstrated in front of a cafeteria, shouted "freedom of speech", and sang The Internationale.
Because the post says "從未" (“never”), even one verified counterexample makes the claim false. Here there are multiple counterexamples, including one at Tsinghua during the 2022 white-paper protest wave itself. So it is not accurate to say 清北人 "never" spoke out or "did not stand up to resist like the white-paper movement."
3 sources
- Students protest, discontent grows over China's COVID policy | The Seattle Times
By Associated Press: "Graduate students at Peking University staged the rare, but peaceful protest Sunday over the school's decision to erect a sheet-metal wall..." The article also says students protested restrictions on food deliveries, visitors and daily COVID-19 testing.
- Protests flare across China as frustration rises over Xi's zero-Covid policy | The Indian Express
By Reuters: "At Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University on Sunday, dozens of people held a peaceful protest against Covid restrictions during which they sang the national anthem..."
- Protests of strict lockdown hit Shanghai, other China cities - ABC17NEWS
By Associated Press: "In Beijing, students at the nation's top college, Tsinghua University, held a demonstration Sunday afternoon... Students shouted 'freedom of speech' and sang the Internationale."