Special contributor to glacier thought bank | Rio Tear Slave
Unfortunately, the Jiang Ge case once again allows us to see the tearing of the world, and to see the hostility and rudeness.
On January 10, 2022, Jiang Ge's mother, Jiang Qiulian, sued Liu Nuanxi (formerly known as Liu Xin) for infringement of Jiang Ge's right to life dispute case: Defendant Liu Nuanxi compensated plaintiff Jiang Qiulian for various economic losses of 496,000 yuan and a consolation payment of 200,000 yuan for mental damage within 10 days of the effective date of the judgment, and bear all case acceptance fees.
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This is a simple preaching of justice.
From the perspective of common sense, the evidence in the Jiang Ge case is conclusive, the facts of the case are clear, and there should be no disagreement in its understanding. But the truth is just the opposite, the dispute and tearing on the Internet, giving people a feeling of difficulty in breathing.
In fact, in the five years since the Jiang Ge case occurred, the online violent scuffle between the two camps has never stopped, but has intensified.
After suffering the great pain of losing her daughter, Jiang Qiulian also suffered continuous external injuries. For example, Liu Xin once intended to send messages such as "Happy New Year for Family Reunion" to Jiang Qiulian during the festival, and published stimulating words through the Internet, sending private messages to greet Jiang Ge's mother "Blood Ravioli" delicious? What's more, he said that he wanted to stew "pigeon soup" and send "pigeon meat" to Jiang Ge's mother.
▲Picture/Source Weibo
As the other side of the scolding war, in a large group of supporters of Jiang Qiulian, there is a netizen named Xixi, who suffers from some kind of immune system disease, which causes her skin condition to deteriorate from time to time.
Such privacy has become a "weapon" for the other side to attack. An article published by a strange account said that "XiXi has AIDS and is deeply troubled by skin diseases", which has even been rumored to be a proof of her "improper private life".
This extreme irrational behavior is not only aimed at Jiang Ge's mother, but also falls on Liu Xin's head. Angry netizens launched a human flesh search for Liu Xin and his family, which quickly spread into verbal violence attacks across the Internet.
For example, a netizen named Cheng Qian who supported Liu Xin, the photo was P as a "pig's head", Weibo private message received a lot of curse information, personal private life was pulled out, was rumored to be "and ex-husband broke the connection, two women and a husband ..."
What makes Cheng Qian unbearable is that netizens began to use the official Weibo of Cheng Qian's daughter school every day, and shouted: "xx professional xx grade students from xx, please go home and tell your mother ..."
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Even if the trial has a result, the Internet violence and the mutual tearing of the two camps have not stopped.
On a live broadcast program, after the verdict was pronounced, some fierce jiang ge mother supporters said that "we can't let the scum live in the human world" and "Liu Xintian is angry and resentful and should be sentenced to death."
▲ Jiang Ge's mother, Jiang Qiulian, won the lawsuit and posted a video on Weibo to express her gratitude (photo/Weibo)
At the end of last month, the case was provisionally cancelled. At that time, Jiang Ge's mother revealed that the real reason was that the judge was physically ill, and she did not expect that the sigh was still mixed with harsh doubts and suspicions:
"Almost, how much traffic do you have to squeeze before you are willing to let go!"
"The law does not stipulate that a person must be saved!"
"Liu Xin is too innocent, and has been being attacked by Jiang Ge's mother!"
The entanglement between Jiang Qiulian and Liu Xin, in addition to involving ordinary netizens in the team camp, even affected lawyers and some scholars. Some people attacked Liu Xin's lawyer, arguing that "only a morally corrupt person would take over such a lawsuit."
And Liu Xin's supporters? Even though Jiang Ge's mother provided judicial evidence from the original criminal case, they still believed that the evidence presented by the lawyer had been edited and tampered with.
After the verdict was pronounced on January 10, Huang Leping, Jiang Qiulian's lawyer, admitted in a live broadcast that the insults that netizens used on Weibo on weekdays were still "nothing." After he represented Jiang Qiulian, netizens who supported Liu Xin repeatedly reported to the Lawyers Association that he had misconduct. To this end, Huang Leping accepted the legal coordination investigation. "This is the first time in many years that I have been hit so hard."
Li Meijin, a professor at the Public Security University, once publicly published an analysis of the Jiang Ge case in the program, and was complained to the Public Security University by netizens. Jiang Ge's mother's supporters believe that this is a kind of questioning of Jiang Ge's mother. Li Meijin was then interviewed by the discipline inspection of the Public Security University and asked not to speak out on the case.
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Why is that? A tragedy of bloody violence in reality has led to increasing online violence.
Why can't we always reach a minimum bottom-line consensus on a matter that is not complicated?
Jiang Ge's mother painfully lost her only daughter and ran for the rights and interests of her beloved daughter, some people say that she eats Jiang Ge's "human blood steamed buns", but there is a little bit of normal human logic?
Liu Xin is indeed bad, but from a legal point of view, sin does not lead to death, right? Some netizens support Liu Xin, you can think that such people are not stupid or bad, but do not harm their families, this is common sense in modern society, right?
Such antagonism and tearing, such expressions wrapped in emotions, appear not only in the Jiang Ge incident, but also in many public events.
For example, recently, after the emergence of the epidemic in a certain place, Yan Ning, the goddess of scientific research, raised some different opinions, and it was said that it was rubbing heat - she is famous in the scientific community, do she need such heat?
▲ Screenshot of scientist Yan Ning's Weibo
One more thing that happened to me.
One day, I went to a WeChat group and posted about how to run scientifically. I am very worried about causing unnecessary arguments in the group, so I usually do not go to the group for those topical posts, and I think that such popular science posts should be harmless to people and animals, right?
Unexpectedly, because the beginning of the post quoted the advice of an American expert, soon some people questioned in the group, even running a step to teach americans? What's your intention?
You say, in the face of such a person, do you still have room for discussion with him?
Of course, people like this are not less scolded on the Internet. However, some people insult and personally attack them with street-style, even vicious language, which seems to me to be a bit too much.
Some people unconsciously take the side of their criticism.
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Writing this, I think I must also be prepared to be bricked up - this year, like "public knowledge", it has become a derogatory term, and there is also "reason in the guest", that is, the abbreviation of rationality, neutrality, and objectivity.
I don't remember who ever said that in a world where there are only straight lines, any curve is sinful. In many people's worlds, there is no middle ground except for pros and cons. Either/or, black and white, friend or foe, is the logical portrait of many people.
This is an era of excess opinion and scarce reason, where everyone is anxious to speak out and not have enough patience to listen; eager to persuade but unwilling to communicate in good faith.
Standing in line, tearing to death, and tearing views apart, but the physical space in which we live cannot be torn apart, so this low-level scolding war is a real mutual harm that happens to us - this is a kind of "mutual harm" that few people mention.
No one is immune to online violence. The socialized spread of personal emotions reflects the irrational crisis behind emotions and the reflection on the return of reason, and human nature and rationality should not be two sides of the same coin.