Requires "New Crown Elevated Road" to be renamed: Wang Wensheng's "timidity" is also "ill"
Recently, the "New Crown Viaduct" in Qingdao, Shandong has been hotly debated by its name. According to reports, a netizen wrote a letter to the mayor of Qingdao to suggest that the road be renamed, arguing that under the epidemic, the current name was unsettling. In response to this, the local response: The Xinguan Viaduct was named by the municipal government in 2011. The name is legal and compliant. In order to maintain the stability of the place names, the place names that can be changed or not are generally not changed.
Qingdao City did not comply with the requirements of some netizens to rename the "New Crown Elevated Road", which is legal and compliant, and did a good job.
The word "new crown" does not naturally represent a virus. Although the abbreviated virus is referred to as "new crown virus", the word "new crown" has no original sin and is not necessarily causally related to the virus.
In fact, the new crown also has multiple meanings such as new champion, new success, new breakthrough, new harvest, new hope, new clothes, etc. The word "new crown" is simply equivalent to the virus symbol, and talks about "new crown" The discoloration, the palpitations of the "new crown", the obvious bias, is a sign of excessive panic.
In addition, there are many people called "X New Crown", and companies with "New Crown" as their name are everywhere. Searching on the Internet with "New Crown" as keywords, you can get a lot of names that use natural persons and enterprises as the main users. result. If the logic of requesting a road name change, the above-mentioned enterprises and individuals must also be changed. It is obviously ridiculous to go "new crown" in this way, and it is difficult to get the recognition of related enterprises and individuals.
Various names or names containing the word "new crown" have been used for a long time, and some have also become stable symbols or brands, which are associated with various social relationships and the rights, obligations, and credibility of users. These names or names have the right and freedom of natural existence, they should not be misinterpreted and disturbed, let alone discriminate.
As we all know, place names and road names are often associated with a place ’s history, customs, culture, and public opinion. A hastily renamed name will bring a lot of inconvenience, and it may even break a unique historical and cultural connection attached to it. This "new crown elevated road" in Qingdao has been built and named for many years. The naming accords with legal rules and does not violate moral rules. It has already been embedded in the local road name culture. There is no need to "make way" because of a collision with a virus.
We should be highly vigilant and strict in dealing with the "new crown virus"; we should maintain a peaceful and rational mentality in treating the word "new crown virus". In fact, this kind of peaceful reason can just show our psychologically strong self-confidence, and this is one of the sources of our power to finally defeat the virus.
□ Li Yingfeng (public lawyer)