On December 14, a video of Song Gengyi, a female teacher at Aurora College in Shanghai, making erroneous remarks in class was uploaded to the Internet, and public opinion was in a big uproar, and most netizens were indignant about it. Two days later, on December 16, the college responded that Song Gengyi had been expelled. For Aurora College's handling of Song, the vast majority of netizens are supportive. However, in recent days, there has been another voice in the field of public opinion, which accused netizens who exposed Song Gengyi's erroneous remarks, calling him a so-called "whistleblower" and storming him online. The party that supports the exposure of the video calls the netizen's behavior a whistle-blowing and whistle-blowing, and for a time the Internet is boiling.
First of all, the conclusion: the person who exposed Song Gengyi's erroneous remarks is certainly not a "whistleblower". Those who hold the idea of "informing" regard the War of Resistance Against Japan as unjust, a negation of the justice of the world anti-fascist war, and even more a negation of anti-militarism. Their position is on the side of militarist fascism and on the side of the Japanese right.
So what is a "whistleblower"? Under what premise is "whistleblowing" pejorative? At first glance, the term "whistleblower" seems neutral, and if a member of a criminal group "whistleblows" to the police and stops a huge conspiracy, then this "whistleblowing" is just and whistleblowing. The pejorative meaning of "whistleblowing" must have at least two premises: the times are not normal, and your "secret" has a just nature.
For example, in the Federal Republic of Germany, shortly after the end of World War II, there was a case, which was later called the "whistleblower" case. The case goes like this: In 1944, a German soldier briefly returned home to visit his family while on a mission. One day he whispered to his wife about his dissatisfaction with Hitler and other Nazi leaders. Shortly after he left, his wife reported his remarks to the local Nazi Party leader because he had thrown himself into the arms of another man during his long military service abroad and had intended to murder her husband. As a result, her husband was arrested by the authorities and sentenced to death by a special military court. After a short period of captivity, due to the tightness of the war, he was not executed and sent to the front.
After the fall of the Nazi regime, the wife was brought to court for framing her husband, and the wife's defense was that, according to the laws in force at the time, her husband's opinions about the Nazi Party had constituted a crime. So when she sued her husband, she was simply putting a criminal on justice. In this case, the post-war German courts invoked concepts such as "conscience" and "justice", holding that "the wife denounced her husband before the German court, resulting in the husband's deprivation of liberty, although the husband was sentenced by the court on illegal grounds, but 'this law is contrary to the conscience and the concept of justice of all normal people'" ”
Note that it is precisely because of the injustice of the Nazi-fascist regime that its laws "violate the conscience and the concept of justice of all normal people", so that the husband's criticism of the Nazis and Hitler as a "secret" is just. Thus, people with a sense of justice and "the conscience of all normal people" have a moral obligation to keep secrets.
Moreover, in the period of the Revolutionary War or the War of Resistance Against Japan, in order to fight the enemy, some fearless fighters on the hidden front lurked in the heart of the enemy. These people need to keep the secrets of the organization strictly in order to better lurk. If a few people, because they could not stand the threat of the enemy, or even the lure of the high-ranking official Houlu, took the initiative to leak the secrets of the organization to the enemy, resulting in huge losses to the organization, they could also be said to be whistleblowers. Such a "whistleblower" is also synonymous with despicable shamelessness.
Another example is the anti-Japanese national hero Yang Jingyu, since the "9.18" incident, led the guerrillas between the White Mountains and the Black Water, circling with the Japanese Kou. In the ten years from 1931 to 1940, he fought countless battles with countless Japanese, bandits, and puppet armies, threatening the enemy. However, in the end, because of the false platoon leader Zhao Tingxi's whistle-blowing, the enemy finally found the exhausted General Yang, and on February 23, 1940, at the age of 35, at the age of 35, in the Three Provinces of the Mengjiang River in Jilin Province. Zhao Tingxi can be described as a whistleblower, and such a whistleblower is naturally hateful, because General Yang Jingyu's "secret" is also just.
Now back to the beginning of the question, is it a "whistleblower" to post the video of Song Gengyi's lecture on the Internet? In order to understand this problem, we must first solve two questions: First, is the content of Song Gengyi's lecture a secret? Second, assuming that this content is secret, does it have any justice? Do others have a moral obligation to keep secrets?
Song Gengyi is talking about a class, and since it is a class, she has the possibility of being taken out of the class by students, and there is no need for confidentiality. Unless she knows that what she is saying is wrong, she is afraid of being exposed, so why do you have to talk about it in class if she knows it is wrong? Wrong people. In this way, she is wrong on both sides.
Assuming this content is secret, is it just? Do others have a moral obligation to keep secrets? The answer is no. The core of the content of Song Geng's speech is to achieve the purpose of replacing the topic and avoiding the important and light by questioning the exact number of victims of the "Nanjing Massacre", which is the usual trick of the Japanese right-wing, just like asking a rape victim, how deep have you been entered? Cold and dirty.
Those who believe that Song Gengyi needs to keep secrets have no view of right and wrong, and their position is japanese right-wing. Therefore, their "whistle-blowing" is a question of the justice of the War of Resistance Against Japan and the justice of the world anti-fascist war.