My Take | Sense of decency needed in times of family tragedy
Makeshift university poster and Facebook comments taunting top education official in the wake of her son’s suicide are to be condemned
Free speech nowadays seems to mean cyberbullying and hounding those who don’t agree with you.
When it was reported that the eldest son of Undersecretary for Education Christine Choi Yuk-lin had committed suicide, a makeshift poster was put up at the Education University congratulating her. More taunts directed at Choi were posted on the university’s Facebook page.
At the same time, the online responses of readers of the anti-government Apple Daily started flooding in. Choi has been a controversial choice for some because she openly supported national education and had been associated with a pro-Beijing education group. You can guess the gist of those messages:
“It’s karma.”
“Retribution comes early.”
“The outcome of the Belt and Road Initiative.”