A college teacher named Feng Jihai from Nanjing University of Finance & Economics was punished for releasing insulting comments on Chinese history on November 29, 2021. Photo: Screenshot from Weibo

A teacher in a university in East China's Nanjing was punished for saying more Liaoning people in Northeast China should have been slaughtered during World War II. He has been removed from his teaching post and demanded to make a public apology.

Some netizens said that Feng Jihai, a teacher from the School of Journalism in Nanjing University of Finance & Economics, had released improper and insulting words on Sina Weibo, China's Twitter-like social media.

The university launched investigations and confirmed Feng's comments are against political discipline and teacher's virtue on Sunday. Besides of being suspended, Feng also faces a severe warning within the Chinese Communist Party (CPC).

Netizens captured screenshots of Feng's comments toward men's basketball team of Liaoning, a province in Northeast China which bore the brunt of Japan's invasion on September 18, 1931.

"Japanese Army should have slaughtered more Liaoning people, ancestors of Liaoning team in 918 Incident." "All fans of Liaoning team could have died with anger for the awful game it played." "Retribution finally came with COVID-19 resurgences in Liaoning," Feng wrote on Sina Weibo.

"How could a man who insulted China's history become a college professor? I feel sorry for the students to have such a disgusting teacher. Feng doesn't even deserve to be a Chinese!" Guo Ailun, a member of Liaoning men's basketball team and star player at China Basketball Association, said on Saturday.

Some netizens said that Feng started insulting Liaoning men's basketball team and Liaoning people since 2016 on China's biggest basketball forum Hupu. "Feng should be expelled from the CPC and taken for criminal detention," said one netizen.

Global Times