PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter

Is it slander if the Daily Caller’s Wikipedia article has an entire section titled “Ties to White Supremacists”?

I don’t think the Daily Caller is a white supremacist organization, but they do have a curious amount of ties to white supremacists.

> What bothers me about this whole ordeal is the fact that the Chinese gov seems to keep a watch on pretty much anyone's social media it seems.

It's more likely that the Chinese government gives social credit for finding and outing such "troublemakers".

Thus the "Chinese student in Canada" sending the complaint.

By doing that, the Chinese government doesn't have to police everywhere. There will always be suckups willing to throw other people under the bus for tiny amounts of gain.

This is not unique to China.

We currently have a severe moral panic on the topic of racism. Almost everyone accused and not distancing themselves from anything that could be remotely associated with it makes someone guilty.

Just to remember: Racism is if you attribute properties to races, a very unscientific term, and think yourself superior to others due to these properties. Luckily, that is a quite rare occurrence today.

It doesn't have anything to do with power, it doesn't have anything to do with privilege and most people accused of it are innocent. There are exceptions of course.

From https://www.nzz.ch/english/swiss-phd-students-dismissal-spot... :

> The professor said she had informed Gerber that he was no longer allowed to represent himself as a St. Gallen doctoral student on Twitter, because he had deregistered the previous year. «This has nothing whatsoever to do with the issues of China or censorship,» she said. She said it was only an oversight that she had used the plural in referring to «angry emails from China,» despite receiving only one email – and that one originating from Canada. She had wanted to make it clear that further reactions could be expected. The phrase «I would have to end our advisory relationship» had referred to the informal advice she had provided «at the doctoral student's request,» she said. The fact that Gerber had continued to be listed as a student on the St. Gallen website until the end of March was due simply to an oversight, she added.

Yeah, right. Every little piece of evidence that the University, and this professor in particular, is twisting the truth is just "an oversight", "making it clear", "informal advice", and another "oversight", which all of course have "nothing whatsoever to do with the issues of China or censorship". Rings soooo true... Not. (So thanks a whole lot for the downvote, that's always such a convincing counterargument.)

BTW, for those of us who can read German, here's an archived copy of the original: https://archive.is/l433X

Shit report. 1. Would you dare not post the student's tweets and cartoons? Let everyone judge whether it is racist, and whether the doctoral student's actions are justified, whether his Chinese girlfriend's feelings are hurt, and whether his actions can go uncondemned in the name of freedom?

2. He was no longer a student at the University of St Gallen, "because he had deregistered the previous year".

3. Since there is no longer a formal supervised relationship, what's wrong with distancing yourself from the doctor because you don't agree with his actions and opinions? Doesn't the professor have that right and freedom?

4. Shouldn't any racial discrimination be condemned? Or should it be forgiven because it was directed at China? Isn't it ingratitude and biting the hand that feeds you that you are racially discriminating against Chinese people and stigmatizing them as the source of COVID-19 while having lived in China and studied for a PhD in China and on a Chinese scholarship?

5. The professor according to their own views and quoted the reaction of friends decided to terminate the guidance of residual this informal relationship, it is a personal affairs, but to drag China into the picture and make it out that China is putting pressure on the world and undermining the independence and freedom of Swiss education, and to make China a terrible threat. This is not a slur on China, but more an insult to Switzerland.

When will the news media truly treat its readers as independent, thinking individuals rather than objects of brainwashing and propaganda?