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Singapore Bloggers Charged Under Sedition Act
ChannelNewsAsia is reporting that for the first time in at least 10 years Singapore has invoked the sedition act and charged two local bloggers for posting racist comments on an online forum. From the article: 'Said Singaporean blogger Benjamin Lee (Mr Miyagi):" A lot of them will be looking at their blogs and wondering if they made any legally seditious remarks. I think because of the way this will be played up, it's negative publicity for the Singapore blogging community."'
What the hell kind of conversations do you go around having that you would feel compelled to wonder THAT?
Any time you are in an enviro where there are any non white males. For example, if you mention that the black guy in the office had a typo in his report- the PC Police will call you racist. They will research and find out every you let a white person's typo slide by. They will call you racist
Then there are the times (which is most of them) where you completely forget about race until something is said like:
The cafetria is serving fried chicken: you walk in, and your friend Tom, who happens to be black, is enjoying some of the delicous chicken. So you say- "Hey Tom, how is the chicken?" All the sudden, an awkward silence ensues. Not because Tom thinks that you are racist, but because you suddenly wonder- OMG- what if Tom thinks I'm racist, even though you were just wondering about the chicken.
The examples could go on forever- But the race card gets played all the time.
And yes, some of my best friends ARE black
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Conflicts like this usually have very, very deep roots and it never ceases to amaze me how American left-liberals can never fail to suggest to change a group's natural reaction instead of accepting it.
left-liberals: are those people who believe in a world free of racism?
"a group's natural reaction": what is this group? people of a certain ethnic background? what is their "natural reaction": to see as inferior another ethnic group?
"instead of accepting it": accepting what, exactly?
you sound like a racist
so to prove you aren't a racist, define your terms, because they sure seem like code speak
because otherwise, i love how you posit anyone who doesn't believe in a world without racism as a "left-liberal" when the truth is that the belief in a world without racism is one shared by the left, the middle, and the right
i think even some of those on the far right would be uncomfortable with your words
so: nice try demagogue, but no one is buying your propaganda here
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Geez, I've gotta give up my modpoints....
>She is not at all a racist, but she is very opinionated.
Yeah, right. Whenever people start saying "I'm not racist, but..." it makes me want to throw up. If you're a racist troglodyte, at least be honest to yourself about it.
> If you are not allowed to criticise others because of differences in their race, what else are you not allowed to criticise?
Pray explain to me how you could legitimately criticise anything about a person's race? How can you criticise someone's genetic makeup, or, conversely, be proud of your own, since you had precious little to do with making it? [ This being slashdot - time travellers are of course excepted. ]
re you allowed to challenge people's cutural beliefs about religon, or would that upset people too much?
Looking at the CIA World Factbook:
Buddhist 42.5%, Muslim 14.9%, Taoist 8.5%, Hindu 4%, Catholic 4.8%, other Christian 9.8%, other 0.7%, none 14.8% (2000 census)
Most people there seemed fairly relaxed about religion and race, but then I've not spent much time there, and dealt mainly with youngish people.
> I hope that she will be allright...
Singapore is probably one of the safest places in the world, and even if she posted something racist on her blog I'd guess an American is more likely to be deported than anything else.
no taxation without representation!
If a few Chinese moonbats ranting about the Malays' alleged racial inferiority is enough to spark a conflict, the people of Singapore should just go ahead and prepare for war because clearly their neighbors are itching for a fight.
;-) Everyone's trained to make molotov coctails, and the roads can be converted into temporary landing strips.
You don't know much about Singapore, then, since that's exactly what's been going on since Singapore gained independence from Malaysia in the 60s.
Seriously, though - Yes. Most Chinese in Singapore *do* believe they're better than their Malaysian neighbors and co-inhabitants. But most of them are also not dumb enough to say so in public, because the Malaysians (esp. under the Good Doctor Mohammed) have Vitriol honed to a fine art.
In Singapore's defence, they've done an excellent job of maintaining racial harmony in a *very* diverse population base (their public housing, which houses aroun 70% of the population, is deliberately multi-racial to prevent ghettoization of any ethnic group). The point being that if Singapore doesn't crack down on the moonbats, that's enough of a gimme for their nutty Malayasian neighbors with a huge inferiority complex to do something dumb, like trying to cut off Singapore's fresh water supply.
And don't forget that both Malaysia and Indonesia have very strict anti-Chinese laws on the books that prevent Chinese folks from owning businesses or land, and (in Indonesia's case) prohibits them from having Chinese names. Singapore has none of that.
-EvilMagnus