According to Internet information, on December 14, Song Gengyi, a teacher at the Oriental Film Academy (second-level college affiliated to Shanghai Aurora Vocational College), questioned the 300,000 death toll in the Nanjing Massacre in a “news interview” class, and believed that this number was not The exact statistical data support is not rigorous, and tells the students “should not hate, but think about how the war came.”
The lecture video was recorded and edited by the students in the classroom and reported and uploaded to the Internet. On the second day, Song Gengyi was suspended from the school’s work as a teacher, and a working group was set up to investigate him. Finally, the school expelled Song Gengyi on the grounds of causing serious social adverse effects.
According to Radio France Internationale, in the initial announcement, Shanghai Aurora Vocational College classified Mr. Song’s remarks as “excessive preaching”, but under pressure, the school later deleted this statement in the announcement and changed it to “error.” Speech”.
The Song Gengyi incident triggered fierce online warfare, and netizens are basically divided into three factions.
One faction, including various official media and pink, lashed out, encircled and suppressed Song Geng, and launched a public trial on the Internet. They bombarded teacher Song Gengyi for “denying the massacre committed by the Japanese militarist invading army in Nanjing and denying the heinous crime committed by Japanese militarism.” The People’s Daily’s official Weibo did not name Song Gengyi on Thursday to speculate and question the truth of history.
The other faction paid tribute to Teacher Song Gengyi, thinking that she was one of the few people who had independent thinking and dared to teach students, and the whistleblower came out, saying that she was too shameless to inform her teacher for her own benefit. They also questioned the whistleblower: “Where is the human nature? Where is the conscience?”, and pointed out that “the whole family will be condemned by the public and will be retributed by the law of heaven!”. Some people even threatened the personal safety of the whistleblower, saying that they would go to “greet” his family. Some people also offered to give Song financial assistance and provide his company positions.
Another group thinks, “I can disagree with your point of view, but I have to swear to defend your right to speak.”
The incident aroused the attention of media professionals. Many senior media professionals believe that Song Gengyi’s remarks are not problematic, whether it is from the academic rigorous attitude of teachers or the basic principle that news facts are always the first element.
Many legal persons have supported Teacher Song Gengyi on the Internet, hoping that she will stand up and sue Shanghai Aurora College.
Senior lawyer Ran Tong said, “Teacher Song is talking about normal teaching content. It’s just because the ultra-leftism prevails in the entire society now, and the teacher who tells the truth is regarded as a problem. We are all calling for it now, the law It is completely feasible to go to the school to sue. Even if the case cannot be won in the end, at least the matter can be made public. I can provide legal assistance if I need it, but I can’t get in touch now (Ms. Song).”
Senior media person, Mr. Zhao, told Radio Free Asia that under official pressure, although many media and legal persons complained for Teacher Song Gengyi, relevant speeches were quickly blocked. He lamented that the normal academic logic and social logic disappeared.
So far, Song Gengyi himself has not made public announcements. The media even worried that she would be imprisoned due to official pressure.
Almost at the same time as Song Geng, Qingdao University teacher Gao Weijia sent out a message entitled “Our generation, just go to the Yasukuni Shrine” and was disqualified from teaching. Gao Weijia said in the message: “Be confident! Dignified Chinese children, you are not afraid of shadows! There is no ghost in your heart, looking up to heaven and earth.” As a result, she was accused by the school as “seriously violating teachers’ professional ethics and codes of conduct.” Afterwards, the school decided to remove Gao Weijia from the teaching position, stop all teaching activities, and cancel her teaching qualifications.
In February this year, the Chinese Communist Party officially announced that in the Sino-Indian border conflict, the People’s Liberation Army killed a total of 4 people. The head of the border regiment Qi Fabao was seriously injured in the conflict. The CCP awarded these five “heroes” the honorary title and the first-class merit. After that, Qiu Ziming, a Weibo veteran named “Spicy Pen Xiaoqiu” who had served as a reporter for the “Economic Observer”, said on Weibo: The death toll is far more than expected, so the official dare not release it. Later, Weibo closed Lapen Xiaoqiu’s account. The Nanjing Public Security Bureau also detained him on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” on February 19, and prosecuted him for “crime of infringement on the reputation and honour of heroes and martyrs” among the 17 new crimes in China’s Criminal Law Amendment.
In June last year, Pan Rui, the son of real estate tycoon Pan Shiyi, wrote in a comment on Weibo that “at least one camp was buried alive” during the Sino-Indian conflict. So he was accused of slandering border officers and soldiers, was hunted down by the police network, and asked to return to China as soon as possible for investigation and handling.
New regulations of the Ministry of Education of the Communist Party of China encourage each other to report on campus
The Ministry of Education of the Communist Party of China implemented the “Educational Supervision and Accountability Measures” on September 1 this year, and employed 147,000 supervisors across the country to deal specifically with illegally running schools, exceeding standards and pre-training, overdue fees, serious failure of teachers and teachers, and students. Educational violations such as bullying. The law states that supervisors have the power to interview and punish violators, and even transfer those involved to judicial organs for handling. The Ministry of Education stated that it hopes to establish a linkage mechanism between educational supervision and educational administrative examination and approval to improve the situation that accountability cannot keep up in the past, and to allow the accountability system to be implemented.
Ms. Jia told Radio Free Asia: Now there are laws in the Education Law and the Law on the Protection of Minors. If a teacher physically punishes a student, you will be punished directly; if a child is bullied at school, the school should be held accountable. Responsibility; if there is a violation of the law, you can directly accept legal sanctions, no need to teach and supervise, he is not a law enforcement agency.
She also said, “Inspectors are like the ancient officials who made unannounced visits to officials. It feels like letting people learn to inform them. This kind of atmosphere is not good anyway. I feel like doing sports. I will do some sports after a while. If each department is fulfilling its responsibilities, there is no need to supervise. The role of supervision will encourage the whistleblower.”
Radio Free Asia analyzed that since Xi Jinping came to power, especially since the implementation of the “campus supervisor” system, at least dozens of teachers have lost their jobs or been transferred from teaching posts because of students’ whistleblowing.
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