Passive era
来自China Digital Space
被时代(bèi shí dài): Era of the passive tense
The term, “era of the passive tense” signifies the present, a time when euphemistic labels are given to actions that belie the underlying compulsion behind those actions.
In Chinese, the grammatical construction bei-X means that one was compelled to do X. Netizens have coined a number of terms#REDIRECT bei-represent, bei-suicide, bei-increased, bei-GFW, bei-XX using this construction that have become widely used, giving rise to the term, "the era of bei" or, "the era of the passive tense." Examples of these terms include bei-suicide (suicided), bei-happy (happified), and bei-invited to tea (invited to tea by the internet police).
“被时代”里，有人被“××”，就一定有人在对别人施以“××”。一方的权利得不到主张，被肆意侵犯，必定会有一方在压制别人享有权利，在侵犯别人的权利。
