Hello everyone, I'm Lao Ding.
On April 28, Tsinghua University, one of the top universities in China, celebrated its 113th anniversary. According to a report by the Beijing News on the same day, "the students danced a cheerful group dance, the military band played passionate music, and the alumni strolled and talked freely in the Tsinghua Garden, which was full of the warm atmosphere of the school celebration."
Just today, someone sent Lao Ding the following video about the "Tsinghua 113th Anniversary Celebration Garden". To Lao Ding's surprise, in the comment area of this video of less than 1 minute, about 20,000 messages have emerged so far, many of which are complaints.
For example, one of the most praised comments said, "There is only a mess of mud left after pumping the bones", and some netizens seemed to be a little angry and said, "A good college celebration was made like a funeral by you". Overall, the comment section is full of criticisms such as "lifeless", "dull", "decadent", etc.
It is worth mentioning that this is not the first time that Tsinghua University has been widely discussed by netizens because of the program on the school anniversary. Three years ago, in 2021, Tsinghua University's 100th anniversary celebration also featured a dance by the school's girls, which attracted many netizens to complain about "like the opening of a bathing center".
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In Lao Ding's view, the mentality of these complaining netizens can be roughly divided into the following types: one is of course to talk about things, purely because of poor perception; one is that they had quite high expectations for Tsinghua before, and after seeing the pictures of similar "embarrassing dances" and visiting the garden, they are a little "angry"; and the other is to play with the topic, after all, for quite a lot of people, they are quite far away from the scholars who can be admitted to Qingbei when they are students, and they have a kind of mentality of watching jokes and "spitting birds" after public opinion.
I still remember that after the "awkward dance" incident in April 2011, The Paper once published a comment entitled "Tsinghua Girls Dancing: You Can Spit It, But You Can't Dirty Cyberbullying". There are these two sentences in the article, which Lao Ding excerpts as follows:
The awkward dance danced by the school bully is still an awkward dance, but the student who danced the awkward dance is still a school bully.
As a university at the top of China's higher education pyramid, Tsinghua will inevitably become the focus of public opinion and be subject to more rigorous scrutiny. But China's top universities shouldn't be the target of bad online sentiments, and girls with poor dancing skills shouldn't fall prey to online violence. The thin red line between complaining and online violence is "the distance between us and evil".
What do you think about this?