> Saturday, May 07, 2005 <
thanks to yj, i was introduced to links after links of articles and blogs regarding the big R issue (no not R(A), sorry. yeah it's abt the racism frenzy. i did read the followup article abt the pXX scholar who posted such remarks on his blog. as a staunch PAP supporter, my reaction then was that the guy must be really STUPID. whatever happened to the years and YEARS of brainwashing from our education system? hao gong ming, moral ed and cme (same diff), social studies. that s'pore is a multiracial society that lives in harmony due to years of toil to ensure such peace. that is rarely seen in other societies.
if u ask me, i think s'poreans are actually more racist and intolerant of others than many pple out there. they discriminate against fat ppl, old ppl, poor ppl, even rich ppl, foreigners, all other races, students, army boys, ah peks, everyone. xenophobes in our own rights. cos s'poreans are too opinionated, and really snobbish. we really think we're powerful, and to it more colloqually, very "big". haha sad but true, and i'm one of them. maybe we just all pretend cos we've been brainwashed abt the racial harmony since pri 1 (maybe in kindergarten too?), or maybe cos we're too afraid of the consequences from the govt.
hmm. as a side note, i wonder if there are actually ppl working for the govt that goes around searching keywords to fish out all there opinionated blogs. paranoid me. haha like the editor of talkingcock.com said, "we’re Singaporeans, and that means we’re paranoid and kiasu, right?" i do believe in the "love all, whack all" s'porean attitude too. ah peks in the kopitiam and taxi drivers really criticise every single current issue, and they can slam and side with the s'pore govt at the same time =pp haha
anyway. as for the scholar-bloggers being slammed. i wouldn't know abt the
ratsa (wrong way round) one, cos i didn't read anything. so far, all the feedback i got from other ppl's blogs are that it's an unjustified slam on the guy. but the other scholar.. well. i think racist remarks on his blog is abit too extreme. but true, revoke his scholarship, he'll still be a racist, only a more discreet one. so what happens now? that's why we have judges and a legal structure here. just like the prosperland case and the nicoll highway enquiry. what the decision is will influence us, and how the society works, at least to a SMALL extent.
anyway. i'm more concerned (as a kiasi paranoid s'porean) abt what it means for bloggers. i'm no politically aware (nor responsible, at that) citizen, despite our ed system's training and gp teachers' horror at our lack of contact with the news. well, other than the prosperland appeal judgement newspaper report on my magnetic board heh =p ip is a new area of law in s'pore, and it's still a small area specialisation, but i think it'll be increasingly impt (this doesn't mean that i actually want to specialise in that [oh god pls no] ) if we really want to let our opinions be heard, we'll either 1) write in to the respective ministries, 2)write in to the straits times, or 3) go to the speakers corner (but not like anyone would bother going there to listen to u, the kopitiam uncles are more interesting and less censored haha). blogging allows us to rant, and cross ref other articles, but without the majority of the population as our audience. at least, not private blogs like these (we're not talking abt mr brXXn or xiax** la =) politically correct or no, at least we bother having an opinion. that's reason behind gp classes and the STACKS of compulsory reading, isn't it? what's the point of having so many branches of the PAP if the govt doesn't want us to be politically aware? instead of mindlessly following, toeing the line for fear of fines, we choose a less-publicised way of expressing our opinions. i think that's fair enough. wanting us to not have our own opinions and perspectives is akin to the brainwashing a la brave new world (aldous huxley), and to a certain extent, communism, the supposed bane of the modern society. maybe that's why students rather mug and memorise chunks of texts and model answers, instead of asking questions and really understanding what they're being told.
and seriously, no man is infallible, much less a govt, since it's made up of so many ppl, each prone to less-than-realistic ideas and opinions. just cos there are so many of them making the decisions doesn't mean that they'll make up for one another's shortcomings. the education system has its weird implementations and downright unfair rules that made me shriek at the system and laugh myself crazy. don't ask me what those stupid things are cos i forgot. though at the back of my head i'm DAMN sure there was this one single thing the moe implemented that i really raged about. think it was in sc. maybe i should go look up my archives, though knowing me, i wouldn't blog abt such a serious thing haha! airhead, me.
so weird to blog abt such topics here, since it's always abt mindless stuff like working CLUBBIN eric.. anyone wants to start a shared blog on current issues? yj?? =D
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