When logging on the PKU BBS, you will see the top-10 topics today. And the first one involves one of my most admired teachers, whom the author(named 胖蛋杰克) denied as a PKUer. The reasons he listed including his exaggeration of Chinese (or rather Arts), his unruly attitude and his arguement for North Korea.
Well, I absolutely agree the idea that everyone has the right to comment on any one, either it's chinese or English, earthman or ET. But I really hate the nasty habit to attack someone publicly, especially turning out to be an exaggeration without sufficient evidence. Yea, Kong's unruly attitude is sometimes really annoying and he wouldn't pick his words when excited. But these can not be the proper reasons to deny his PKUer identity. As the Fat Egg Jack listed, Ren Zhiqiang and Hanhan should be worshipped for their uncased style, concluding that it is important to be sincere, and then extending this common sense to an idiographic situation- the spirit of PKU. It is at this point that I sensed his logic fatalness, leaving his further comments beyond discussion.
I don't know if this Egg has ever attended PKU and how could he make such a conclusion about the spirit of PKU and PKUers. Based on my personal understanding, this so-called spirit is changing from time to time, sometimes to the counter-side of the authorities, which may be harmful to the development of it. But that is the fact. PKUer is a developing conception, and should be judged only by the great history itself, not any one else, especially not those who stare at the weakness of public existence all day long without eating and morning their lawns, wishing to draw open attention with their seditious words.
But I lost in complexity after thinking all of this in my mind, accompanied by those ideas of distinction, anger, personalities, and ridicules.