Source: Global Times
Taiwanese artist Rainie Yang was chased and beaten by green camp politicians and media for saying a few words on a mainland variety show recently, "I am from Guangdong" and "I haven't eaten any seafood (I was in Taiwan in my early years). On September 6, Taiwan's "Ministry of the Interior" actually "taken by himself" and implicitly mocked her in a public service advertisement. As the official department of the Taiwan authorities, this advertisement was strongly criticized by public opinion on the island.
Anti-fraud promotional image posted by the Ministry of the Interior on Facebook .
According to Taiwan's "China Times News Network" report on the 7th, Taiwan's "Ministry of the Interior" posted an anti-fraud public service advertisement promotional picture on Facebook on the 6th, which imitated fill-in-the-blank questions to ironize various fraud methods, such as "I laughed to death, and some people claim that the US general is coming to Taiwan to get married", "I laughed to death, and some people say that I can earn 80,000 yuan a month when I go to Cambodia ". The last sentence of these fill-in-the-blank questions is "I laughed to death, and some people say that eating seafood in Taiwan is very luxurious." According to a previous report by our newspaper, Rainie Yang recently said on the show that her family was in poor financial conditions when she was a child and she had never eaten seafood much. As a result, she was taken out of context by a green camp politician, believing that she was "belittling Taiwan." This advertisement from Taiwan’s “Ministry of the Interior” was believed by the public on the island, which was specifically directed at Rainie Yang.
After the promotional advertisement was released, there were nearly 10,000 comments below, most of which criticized Taiwan’s “Ministry of the Interior” for being inappropriate. Many netizens on the island imitate the example sentences in the promotional pictures, saying: "I laughed so hard that I actually used the money I paid taxes to send such garbage propaganda", "I laughed so hard that the people live and work in peace and contentment, who would leave my hometown?" Some commentators criticized that the DPP authorities' agencies can even publicly use their homepage to take the lead in bullying the people. Xu Qiaoxin, a member of the Taipei City Councillor of the Kuomintang, also left comments, using similar sentences to satirize the embarrassing affairs of senior officials in the green camp, and criticized the Taiwan "Ministry of the Interior" for taking the speech of Taiwanese artists out of context. Her message received support from a large number of netizens. According to Taiwan's "Feng Media" report on the 7th, the Kuomintang "legislator" Li Guimin criticized on the same day that it was the responsibility of the "Ministry of the Interior" to rescue children of poor families, but the department humiliated the parties with "laughing to death".
"Interior Minister" Xu Guoyong believed on the 7th that the entire article advocated anti-fraud and "didn't scold people", claiming that young people's creativity should be supported. He also disagreed with Rainie Yang's statement about seafood, saying that according to the income of Taiwanese people, "no matter how poor it is, it is normal to eat seafood since childhood." However, the homepage of Taiwan’s “Ministry of the Interior” still deleted the last sentence of this advertisement on the evening of the 7th. Xu Guoyong's related statements once again aroused a counterattack on public opinion: "When I was a child, I was a luxury to eat , McDonald's, ", "The rich people smelled of wine and meat, and I had frozen bones on the road", "Is it illegal to not afford seafood?" [Source: Global Times Yu Feng]
