Nanfang Daily and Xinhua News Agency appealed not to fire Kong Qingdong

Nanfang Daily and Xinhua News Agency appealed not to fire Kong Qingdong Kong Qingdong, a professor at Peking University, refused an interview with a reporter from Southern People Weekly, a newspaper affiliated with the Southern News, using three foul words, and posted the incident on Weibo...

Kong Qingdong, a professor at Peking University, refused an interview with a reporter from Southern People Weekly, a southern newspaper, with three foul words, and showed off the foul language through Weibo, which caused an uproar in public opinion and continued to ferment. Xinhua News Agency published a comment on November 10 urging Peking University to fire Kong Qingdong, and Nanfang Daily and Southern Metropolis Daily joined the national media to start a wave of dismissal of Kong Qingdong. However, after Peking University students called on the president to fire Kong Qingdong, Southern Metropolis Daily and Xinhua News Agency reversed their attitude and called on Peking University to retain him.

"Southern Metropolis Daily" commented on November 15 that if they saw Kong Qingdong's remarks, everyone would probably think that he was advocating violence. For example, the "traitors" and "leaders" he always talks about are referring to something, and he even clearly refers to one of his colleagues at Peking University. The two people had different views. Kong Qingdong actually hypothesized a scenario: If the American devils came to Beijing, he, Kong Qingdong, would kill all the guides tonight with a knife, so that they would not live until dawn. The absurdity of this statement is that it not only assumes a scenario in which the United States attacks China, which is completely inconsistent with the image of China's rise as a great power, but also assumes that others will lead the way for the US military. This threat itself seems like a self-proclaimed greatness that is both ignorant and obscene. But these so-called promotions of violence are just words. Kong Qingdong himself will never really have the courage and execution ability. These words are nothing more than modal particles to enhance the impression of onlookers and highlight his tall image. There is no real threat of violence. It is estimated that in real life, Kong Qingdong would walk away from the more powerful Jingba.

commented that in a normal society, tolerance of heretics is not only a right that the heretics themselves should have, but also an obligation of other members of society. This is especially true for universities. The establishment of universities was itself a heresy. Teaching knowledge to the general public instead of monopolizing it in the hands of monks and priests was a heretical act in itself, subverting the entire way of inheritance of knowledge. Therefore, tolerating Kong Qingdong and his modal particles is not to tolerate real violence, but to continue a spiritual power. This power was once a consensus in the early Peking University, and this bloodline should not be extinguished now.

In addition, the position of Xinhua News Agency, which fired the first shot at dismissing Kong Qingdong, has also begun to soften. On November 16, Xinhuanet reprinted the Shenyang Evening News article "Kong Qingdong Incident, No Power Intervention" saying that universities are responsible for the management of professors, but this management cannot extend beyond eight hours. Even those who had so-called "political problems" at that time, such as Gu Hongming of the old imperialist school and Liu Shipei of the new imperialist school, were tolerated by Peking University as long as they did not bring the promotion of imperialism to the campus and into the classroom. This was also a tradition. Of course, reporters who are insulted can file a lawsuit and let the court decide. It is really not a good thing to resort to power at every turn and call on those in power to intervene when it is entirely possible to seek legal solutions.

Before Peking University students launched the hole-removing movement, "Southern Metropolis Daily" continuously criticized Kong Qingdong and believed that Kong Qingdong should bear responsibility. On November 13, the newspaper published an article "Giving a Reasoning Class to the "Potentialist" Kong Qingdong". It seems that there is no need to blame Kong Qingdong too much for the abuse, because Kong Qingdong was born in 1964 and basically spent his elementary school during the "Cultural Revolution." Think about it, can children who grow up in an atmosphere of criticism meetings, big-character posters, and beatings, smashing, and looting receive a decent public reasoning education? In essence, Professor Kong's foul language may just be a manifestation of not spitting out the "wolf's milk".

Immediately afterwards, "Southern Metropolis Daily" published "How High is the Internet Threshold?" on the 14th. " said that for public figures in real society, the Internet, like the real world, has a higher bottom line. The quality of opinions must be higher than that of ordinary netizens, and at the same time, they must stay away from falsehood and ugliness to ensure that they do not cross the bottom line of real society. From this perspective, Kong Qingdong’s swearing behavior is not higher than that of ordinary netizens, but lower than that of ordinary netizens. It not only destroys his image as a public figure on the Internet, but also violates the professional ethics of professors and crosses the social bottom line. He should bear the responsibilities corresponding to his public position.

Peking University students are divided into two factions with competing views. However, based on the number of posts on the "Peking University Weiming BBS" website, the number of "anti-Confucius" faction is much larger than the "pro-Confucius faction". At around midnight on the 13th, a student named Jiang, a doctoral student at Peking University, reported: "Students at Peking University have launched a campaign to fire Kong Qingdong these days! Several classmates and I sent the inhumane words he said in the first video to the principal's mailbox, hoping that the principal can fire this '50-cent professor.'" He said the title of the letter was "Kong Qingdong, a famous professor at Peking University who openly promotes violence, should be punished."

Kong Qingdong posted on Weibo on November 7, saying: "One minute ago, Southern People Weekly called me to harass me and asked for an interview. The attitude was very gentle and the language was very sinister. Monk Kong gave an unequivocal reply with a parallel sentence: Fuck you! Get out of here! Fuck you!" This aroused the anger of many netizens. The next day happened to be China Journalists' Day, which attracted "bombardment" from the national media. The Propaganda Department of the Peking University Party Committee of the Communist Party of China responded that it had asked Kong Qingdong to investigate.

Xinhua News Agency published two blockbuster articles on the 10th, denounced Kong Qingdong for having lost his basic moral bottom line as a teacher, which has seriously affected the image of university teachers, and urged Peking University to fire Kong Qingdong. In his first video position, Kong Qingdong unscrupulously cursed Xinhua News Agency for "taking the lead in producing fake news", leaving the leadership of the Party Central Committee and openly working as a lackey for the "Southern Traitor Newspaper". He hinted that he was supported by "party and state leaders" and leaders of Peking University. The famous leftist website Utopia and Chongqing media supported Kong Qingdong, setting off a new trend.

After several days of silence, Cao Linhua, a reporter from the Southern People's Weekly who was insulted by Kong Qingdong, accepted an exclusive interview with Shandong's "Jinan Times" on the 14th. Cao Linhua said that Kong Qingdong made up the dirty words and "three mothers" because of his obscenity. After two minutes of "swearing" on Weibo, Kong Qingdong sent a text message to ask for forgiveness.