Yu Qiuyu — The Duck's Been Cooked and You Still Insist on Being Stubborn?!
2006/5/10 21:52:45
Yu Qiuyu is probably that fellow who, every night at 11 PM, rain or shine, can be found on a certain TV channel airing his views to the empty air — a compulsive pedagogue. These past two days, this compulsive pedagogue got thoroughly cooked in the internet's big pot over a few pronunciation errors. And this compulsive pedagogue Yu Qiuyu, with the duck cooked through, still insists on being stubborn, trying to brush it off with "How big a deal is this?"
The last time he used "How big a deal is this?" to brush things off was regarding his Cultural Revolution past. For Yu Qiuyu, what's the big deal about the Cultural Revolution? What's the big deal about getting up to things during the Cultural Revolution? For someone who doesn't even consider what he did during the Cultural Revolution a big deal, mispronouncing a few words — how big a deal could that be? When a person has been shameless to the point of losing all sense of shame, they've gone limitless — gone steamed-bun — gone "How big a deal is this?"
Never mind the ancient concept of "one-character teacher." Nobody's asking this compulsive pedagogue — who nightly airs his views to the air — to turn a few pronunciations into a charming "one-character teacher" anecdote. But when you make errors during a worldwide live broadcast, and then stubbornly try to use "ancient and modern pronunciation differences" to cover up your own ignorance, to prove you still have the ability to pronounce things — doesn't that deserve to be scolded? Once scolded, what grounds do you have for objection? Must you really demonstrate before the entire world what it means to be a "brat who got famous" before you feel modern?
Leopards don't change their spots. But if this fellow can stubbornly maintain a stiff beak even about his Cultural Revolution activities after the duck has been cooked, then for a few mispronunciations, no amount of virtual internet heat will change him. The Cultural Revolution's distortion of certain people's characters is plain to see. Some say a Cultural Revolution memorial should be built — that kind of formality is unnecessary. However, all those who lived through the Cultural Revolution — though they are already our parents' generation — please find an evening, moonlight or no moonlight, and instead of just airing views to the air, face your own conscience and repent properly. If Yu Qiuyu had ever repented in this way, the farce of these past two days probably wouldn't have happened. A person who doesn't know how to repent, no matter how they air views to the air every night, will in the end be nothing but air!