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原创政论--华人政治人物,在近期的热门事件中提醒大家

BILLY PANG 加拿大社区平台 2018-08-06

编者按:万锦教育委员BILLY PANG 授权本号刊登他最近在教育局会议中的部分发言。

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不代表本号观点。欢迎大家及时投稿,提供更多原创政论。

延伸阅读:原创政论:一块头巾引发的闹剧。是游行?还是搞一个M104?


BILLY PANG 原文如下:


作为一个教委, 前天我在教育局的会议中敦促教育局高级职员们,不要犯同样错误, 在未查明真相前,不宜高调处理事件。我个人亦认同去届教委会主席在有需要时, 勇于向公众致歉。


作为一个政治人物, 我经常提醒自己,需要不偏不倚的作政治判断, 才能建立和谐社区。



BILLY PANG 认为:


最近发生的穆斯林学生声称头巾被剪事件闹剧最终证明是假的,我们所有人都从中能学到教训:


把一件普通的案件无限扩大为仇恨,无限政治化,是无助于族权平等,无助于加拿大社会多元宽容。


身居要职的政治人物不能以此期望为自己获取政治资本,不惜罔顾事实,实在不是加拿大民众之福。而对于青少年(含儿童),我们应该注意保护他们的成长,我非常反对在第一时间将涉案少女暴露给媒体的做法,无论是少女的家庭和CBC,都不应该无视一个少女的隐私,急切地制造舆论压力。


本人认为,第一时间报警,寻求法律处理才是法制社会的精义。加拿大民众平等受法律和宪法保护,我们应该对此保有信心。


当然,对于亚裔这次被误伤,我认为有关政治人物应该从善如流,以同样的反应速度来纠正先前没有事实基础的言论,进行反思,对敏感问题要慎思谨行,而不是成为假新闻的追随者和传播者,如果有人因此获益,则加拿大社会中将出现鼓励假新闻的动向,值得警惕。


附多伦多太阳报报道。以英文为准。中文翻译来自谷歌软件

 我们不会责备总理,总理或市长承担一名11岁儿童的初步报告,描述她是如何受到一名两次试图用剪刀剪头巾的“亚洲人”的袭击是真的


 许多人相信这是真的。我们在我们的头版报道。


 但多伦多警方经过调查后说,没有发生过袭击事件,特鲁多,温恩和托利都有责任强调任何虚伪声称是仇恨犯罪的受害者的危险,或者任何犯罪。


 相反,他们跑去掩护,只是说他们很高兴没有发生袭击,但重要的是要继续保持警惕,反对仇恨和种族主义。


 当然打仇恨和种族歧视是很重要的,但是这不是从这个案子中学到的教训。


 在这种情况下,教训是,当所有的事实都知道之前,当一个学校董事会和市政府,省级和联邦政治家跃跃欲试得出结论的时候,这些事实的启示可能会导致他们希望避免的事情 - 公开讥讽仇恨犯罪。


 当媒体错误地认定一个少数群体的成员是犯罪者时,政治家是第一个谴责他们的人。


 那么,为什么当他们把一个少数群体的成员误认为犯罪的受害者时,他们的沉默呢?


 下一次这种性质的犯罪被指控的时候,我们建议我们的政治领导人说一句话:“如果所谓的事实是真的,在我们的城市(或省,或者国家)是完全不可接受的,我们有信心警方会认真对待这件事,彻底调查。“


 顺便说一下,究竟发生了什么事情。

Since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Toronto Mayor John Tory didn’t say it, we will.

 The problem with Toronto’s now infamous hijab hoax is that it will make Muslims and others who are actual victims of hate crimes more afraid to come forward for fear of not being believed.

 And it will make the public more cynical about the reporting of hate crimes.

 We aren’t going to fault the prime minister, the premier or the mayor for assuming the initial report of an 11-year-old child describing how she had been attacked by an “Asian man” who twice tried to cut her hijab with scissors was true.

 Many people believed it was true. We reported it on our front page.

 But once Toronto police said, following their investigation, that no attack had occurred, it was incumbent on Trudeau, Wynne and Tory to stress the dangers of anyone falsely claiming to be the victim of a hate crime, or for that matter any crime.

 Instead, they ran for cover, saying only that they were glad that no attack had occurred but that it was important to continue to be vigilant about fighting hatred and racism.

 Of course it’s important to fight hatred and racism, but that’s not the lesson to be learned from what happened in this case.

 The lesson in this case is that when a school board and municipal, provincial and federal politicians leap to conclusions before all the facts are known, the revelations of those facts can lead to the very thing they hoped to avoid — public cynicism about the reporting of hate crimes.

 When the media wrongly identify a member of a minority group as the perpetrator of a crime, politicians are the first to condemn them.

 Why then their silence when they wrongly identify a member of minority group as the victim of a crime?

 The next time a crime of this nature is alleged, we suggest our political leaders say words to the effect of: “If what has been alleged is true, it’s completely unacceptable in our city (or province, or country) and we are confident the police will treat this matter seriously and investigate it thoroughly.”

 Which, by the way, is exactly what happened.

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