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After the opening of Zhang Huimei’s Beijing concert the night before, many viewers posted on the online platform that they were carefully searched when they entered the venue. As long as there is any rainbow element, they will be banned from entering, or they will change clothes with rainbow elements. Throw away items with rainbow elements, or store them out and retrieve them when you’re done.
How outrageous is this inspection——
Those with rainbow flags and T-shirts with a rainbow pattern on them will of course be stopped. In addition, some viewers will also be embarrassed if there is only a small section of rainbow color on the strap of the backpack, which is only a few centimeters in length.
Someone said that there was a sad frog pendant on his bag, but he was also stopped because the sad frog has many different colors and is too colorful.
What’s more, someone’s bag was opened and a notebook was found inside, with handwritten lyrics of “Rainbow” in colorful fonts. This doesn’t work either, you can’t bring it in.
The worst example I have seen is that a friend has a colorful tattoo on his body, and he is stopped to wipe off the tattoo before he can enter…
Imagine if I was at the scene, paid for a high-priced ticket, but had to endure being searched by the staff, took out my bag, checked my belongings, and then was arrested because of some details that I may not have noticed. If ordered to cooperate with the rectification, I will definitely be furious: Why do you do this? Which law says I can’t wear a rainbow pattern to a gig? Could the rainbow pose any danger hazards to the show? If you can’t give any reasonable explanation and basis, then I will refuse to cooperate, because this kind of behavior is clearly infringing on my personal rights and insulting my personal dignity.
I think some analysts say that the reason why the investigation is so strict this time is because Jolin Tsai just held a concert in Guangzhou. When she sang “Rose Boy”, a well-designed rainbow light show appeared on the stage.
At that time, the audience responded very well. Everyone thought it was very beautiful, and it also perfectly complemented the theme of the song “Rose Boy”. So immediately after Zhang Huimei’s Beijing concert, the relevant parties were on the alert. Not only was the song “Rainbow” canceled from the playlist, but also various departments were increased layer by layer. The initial order may be just “don’t let me watch it again To this kind of large-scale rainbow scene”, when it reaches the bottom, it becomes that no rainbow elements are allowed to appear. A few hundred meters will not work, and a few centimeters will not work.
Giant rainbow flags often appeared in Amei’s past concerts:
I would like to try to understand this management pressure on the parties involved. Zhang Huimei and Jolin Tsai are the two most influential gay icons among Chinese singers. Jolin Tsai will use rainbow elements in singing “Rose Boy”, and Zhang Huimei has “Rainbow” in almost every must-sing song, which is a song that almost every gay will sing. A few years ago at Zhang Huimei’s concert in mainland China, there was a scene where a large number of audience members brought rainbow flags and cheered. If no measures are taken, such a scene will inevitably repeat itself. Let so many gays gather together to display their symbols, will it stimulate the public audiovisually? Will it have some sort of publicity effect? Will the situation get out of hand?
But I really think they think too much. The display of the rainbow at the concert did not violate any public order and good customs, secondly did not raise any slogans or appeals, and thirdly did not create any potential safety hazards, and even personal identity labels were not clearly revealed.
It’s just a rainbow. Rainbows are the most beautiful spectacle that nature can bring to human beings. No one will dislike rainbows, and no one will feel threatened by rainbows. The first reaction to seeing a rainbow should not be to prohibit and eliminate it.
When we design some rainbow patterns on clothes and bags, we don’t have any bad intentions. At first, everyone just thought the pattern was beautiful. Later, everyone saw the symbolic meaning of diversity and tolerance. Later, we will use this pattern to express the inner vision of peace, great love and hope.
Beauty, diversity, tolerance, peace, great love, hope… these are the most positive words. Why would some people feel wary of the rainbow pattern associated with these words? Why be afraid?
Taking a step back, even if you think this pattern is bound to the sexual orientation of a certain group of people, representing a sexual minority group, what is the current social situation of this group? Almost all of them have no social visibility, how many related topics in the mass media are left in the past few years? They can no longer stimulate the heterosexual group, and they can’t make any publicity effects. Now they just barely survive in silence. Now, they just silently go to a concert of a singer they like, and silently wear a rainbow pattern. When they see the same kind at the scene, they just smile silently, and at most they sing along “Rainbow” or “Rose Boy”, and the lyrics of these two songs are all implicitly expressing inner feelings. There are no straightforward slogans in the lyrics, no appeals for rights, only love&peace.
Isn’t that even okay? Is it all wrong? Is this going to be suppressed? To be insulted? To be repaired? How are you going to let these people live? Can it only be completely reduced to a walking dead? It’s not enough to be as low as dust, do you have to bury them in the soil?
It’s a good thing I wasn’t there, otherwise I really don’t know what would happen. Of course, I also know that the staff are also very difficult, and they are also working very hard. It is the pressure from their superiors that makes them have to do this. I don’t blame them. So who am I to blame?
The audience who were searched, humiliated, forced to change clothes and throw things when entering the concert have the right to pursue responsibility for this matter, and the responsible party should come forward and apologize to them. If it was ordered by the show organizer or the venue management, they should apologize. If it was ordered by a higher-level manager, a leader should come out and apologize.
If this matter is left alone and everyone puts up with it, then according to the slippery slope effect, there will definitely be more outrageous things to happen next. Maybe not only the rainbow T-shirt on the outside needs to be checked, but also the rainbow underwear on the inside. Not only performance venues need to be inspected, but also workplaces and even family homes. Not only sexual minorities are censored, but heterosexuals also have their own items to be censored. How do you guarantee that there will not be any elements that inexplicably poked the G-spot of the old man on your body? Maybe it’s a Japanese kimono, maybe it’s the color of your hair, maybe it’s the squinting eyes you’re born with, maybe it’s a declaration of “don’t have children”, maybe even just told a joke.
Diversity and tolerance, in our opinion, are positive values, but in the eyes of others, they may be dangerous values. They are afraid of diversity and tolerance, and resist colorfulness. As long as it is black and white, it is best to hold funerals every day.
I don’t want to give up the world to them. I don’t want to live in a world where there are no rainbows but only black and white. Whoever likes this can make it at home, or go to the underworld early, which is most suitable for you. Just leave the colorful world to us.
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