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△ 188｜Witch Hunt
In Taiwan, “Internet violence” is generally referred to as “witch hunting”, which is the act of searching for various human flesh of a public figure or netizen, and then carrying out cyber violence. This word is very “abstract literature and art”, but it is just right to use a large-scale group event in the late Middle Ages to cover the various behaviors of modern people-probably the world is a cycle, just because of the development of technology, but these “games” The kernel is exactly the same.
It’s been a while since I logged out of Weibo, and I didn’t feel any discomfort. Instead, I stayed away from these hostile Simplified Chinese online environments, and I felt that the world was much cleaner. In the past, I have followed a lot of “celebrities” with small fan groups on Weibo, and every once in a while, they would come to a game of “hanging people”. In fact, this is not the case in the simplified Chinese online environment. There are also some foreign celebrities on IG who will post some excessive remarks for their fans to see because they are abused privately. It has to be said that this is one of the best ways to rally fans – find a public enemy and use him as a target to unite your fans.
However, among these fans, it is inevitable to encounter followers like me who can “think from another perspective”. In addition to those very obvious abusive behaviors, some “unreasonable” things of the parties will also be posted for fans to attack those “enemies”. However, sometimes I feel that the words of the “enemy” are not unreasonable, and even feel that what they said is actually a question I often have. So I thought about it the other way around, these are obviously “unreasonable”, and others have already talked about the point, why do these “celebrities” dare to post it, aren’t I afraid that there are fans like me who will “from another” Followers of Thinking Perspective?
Thinking about it again, it seems that there is a “paradox” in it. When someone questions him, and it is a question with “evidence”, if the person concerned does not respond, then for the person who asked the question, he It is also a small victory, he can tell the people around him, because the client is obviously “guilty” and dare not respond to these questions; but if the client wants to respond to such questions, if he is really said to be “clicked”, he will It is inevitable that I will encounter the embarrassment of “unreasonable and unclear”. If I were this “celebrity”, the most direct method I could think of would be to mobilize the power of fans to create a “public enemy” to activate the simplified Chinese network. The usual tricks of the environment: If B is proven wrong, then A must be right.
Whether or not the questioning person has “evidence” or “reason”, in essence, they use the same methods and rules of the game as those who participate in the “witch hunt”.
They questioned, and if the other party did not respond, the other party was defined as a “guilty of heart”; if the other party responded, it was the beginning of a war, and the questioner could declare to the public that the other party was typically “stepped on the tail” Performance can also be defined as “guilt”; in short, no matter what actions the other party takes, the questioner can find a way to explain again, which is not much different from the “witch hunt” at that time. ——Having a black cat is the proof of a witch. If she doesn’t have a black cat, but there is a crow quill on her desk, then she can also be proved to be a witch. This kind of “game” is not just a witch hunt. It only happened in time. Think about the large-scale actions of “redefinition” that have occurred in the world later. The fun and the core are the same, but some of them have to be 404.
Because the final interpretation right is always in the hands of those who initially accused others. They are the game makers, so of course they know how to change the rules in time to ensure they can beat each other at any time. Of course, such game rules also have a predictable “risk”. When these initial accusers become the accused sinners, the rules of the game played by them are the most undeniable and subversive sanctions against them. ‘s law.
It’s just that no one in history will summarize what the rules of the witch hunt game are, because those who convict others are the winners, and of course they are also those who fear that they will also become sinners – in order to restrain these “winners”, there are “winners”. the concept of “law”. When the witch-hunting game became a scene where the law does not blame the public, the rules of the witch-hunting game at that time became the current law, and there was no prosecution and no implication-because they all became the enforcers of justice.
Since everyone has become a witch-hunting enforcer, the fun is that one day, they will become accused sinners, and at that time, who is the real enforcer?
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