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Recently, a "Chinese and English bilingual lost and found" caused a storm at a university campus forum.
On March 12, a netizen named "St. Francis of Assisi" posted that he had found an iPad in the school's study room, which was an English system and did not have Chinese commonly used software, so he deduced that the owner may be a foreign student. So he wrote a lost and found story in Chinese and English. Some users of the campus forum think that he is "sublime and charming", and even some people add his qq friends to insult him.
Picking up valuable things, can be returned to the owner in time, this is not ignorant; through the system and software, inferring that the other party may be an international student, leaving a bilingual lost and found, this is careful observation, grace and education; Chinese expression from the word smooth, the handwriting is clear, the English expression is authentic and fluent, almost can be determined that this is a bully ...
If there is no subsequent storm, no matter from which level of interpretation, what this freshman boy has done is not wrong and blameless.
What was originally a simple good thing has actually developed into being insulted, accused, and attacked, and the development direction of this matter is unexpected.
"Writing English lost and found" is interpreted as "sublime", kind and enthusiastic is interpreted as "easy girl" (in fact, gender is mistaken), "politeness is distorted into "a flattery"...
Some college students in the school involved only relied on a lost and found to make up a picture of "girls starving to know international students" and "nailed it to the column of shame outside the lofty ocean", so unfounded paranoia reflects a narrow prejudice.
As students of well-known universities, the many emotions that individual students have shown in this matter, such as objectification of women, misogyny, and hostility towards international students, are incomprehensible.
In real life, some people know things and evaluate things, not based on objective reality, but on the position first, as soon as the emotions are on the head, they arbitrarily "label" people and "regard prejudice as a principle", so that all kinds of results are only to hurt others and hurt themselves more, so that the public opinion field will increase a lot of hostility.
In this case, some people believe that the reason why some netizens on the campus forum involved are so extreme may be because they think of the preferential treatment of international students by some schools before, and the resulting "sense of injustice" has stimulated their extremist emotions.
But excessive brain supplementation is also a disease of speech expression. Does Chinese and English lost and found have anything to do with these brain-made "plots"? When we evaluate a thing, what we need is to discuss things on the spot, one code to one code, rather than bottomless association, guessing, and listing on the line.
In any case, in the face of a "polite" and "harmless" lost and found, some students can make a big fuss and vicious words, and even develop to the Internet violence against the parties, breaking through the basic bottom line of public expression.
We are glad that the person in question is a boy, and because of this, we can see the absurdity of this prejudice more clearly. But we should also feel afraid, if the person who wrote the lost and found is really a girl, will she have to endure more violent online violence? What kind of humiliation will she be dragged into? How can she prove her innocence?
The parties posted about the incident. Image from the web.
The question of the treatment of Chinese and foreign students may be worth discussing, but not everything can be automatically brought into this context. Labeling and over-interpreting at every turn is not a good ethos in schools.
Prejudice comes from ignorance. We would like to see college students discuss and express campus events or public affairs with an open mind and a free attitude, rather than wearing stereotypical colored glasses and staging a "network fight" at every turn.
Only by replacing blind obedience with thinking and replacing emotional expression with rational communication can we abandon prejudice and shape a rational and moderate public opinion field.
□ and Light (Media Person)
Editor: Chen Jing Proofreader: Zhao Lin
Source: Beijing News