This setting reminds me of the phenomenon of labeling in reality.
From a commercial point of view, tags are keywords used to indicate the classification or content of goods, which is convenient for merchants and customers to locate quickly when searching. However, once this method of saving time and energy is applied to "people" indiscriminately, all kinds of discrimination and slander will inevitably appear.
Those who dislike Guo Jingming will dismiss those who watch "Little Times" as "brainless"; those who are unhappy with EXO will depreciate those who like EXO as worthless; there have been several accidents, and they all think that female college students have poor safety awareness... If the The clear classification of human nature is very extreme. Is our life very rational?
Today, we increasingly like to label "people" like commodities.
Whether it is the former "post-80s" and "post-90s", or the current "five cents" or "public knowledge", once a group is labeled, it can be collectively stigmatized without argument or reason; Just like the "Smelly Old Nine" during the Cultural Revolution, throwing a dirty word on the opponent, while the opponent breaks through without attacking, acquires purity, and accordingly has the right to "criticize and criticize the stinky" opponent. sex.
The scary thing about labeling, however, doesn't stop there.
In 1972, Dr. David Rosenhann of Stanford University conducted an experiment. He recruited 3 women and 5 men, a total of 8 normal people to play fake patients. All the fake patients told the doctor that they had severe auditory hallucinations; but apart from the auditory hallucinations, all their words and deeds were completely normal, and the information given to the doctor was true except for their name and occupation.
As a result, 7 out of 8 were diagnosed with manic-depressive disorder.
After being detained in a psychiatric hospital, all the fake patients behaved normally, no longer had auditory hallucinations, nor did they have any other symptoms of psychopathology; however, none of the fake patients was detected by any medical staff. When the fake patients asked to be discharged from the hospital, because they had been labelled as "mental", medical staff believed that these fake patients had aggravated "paranoia."
This experiment has profoundly revealed the harm of the "label effect": once people think that a person is mentally ill, all his behaviors will be regarded as abnormal. Labels because of prejudice, and further prejudice because of labels.
Just like in movies, the protagonists who are normal people in our eyes, once they are labeled as "diversity", are regarded as abnormal, aliens, and must be eliminated.
Even if others don't label you, you have to stick it on yourself; if you resist being labelled, don't stand in line, and don't form a party, you will immediately become the target of public criticism. When the new party reformed in the Northern Song Dynasty, Su Dongpo said that it was flawed, and when the old party came to power, he said that he was not entirely right.
In fact, being labeled is unavoidable and does not have to be avoided.
What we really need to avoid is to tolerate no objection, even without thinking about it; to those who have different labels and views than ourselves, throwing dirty water, personal attacks, greeting our ancestors... It's like a pot of water surging. The bubbles, once someone added the fire to boil, instantly surged out of control.
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