It's Saturday afternoon,
the sun is still shining despite the rain.
Woke up pretty late,
although I can't say what I had was sleep.
So anyway yea, my thought process is a little fuzzy at the moment.
Words find it hard to escape the amorphous blob that is the thought form in my head.
Pretty cool sentence.
Not really.
Shut the fuck up.
An article that I first came across on The Real Singapore,
has recently been featured on Yahoo SG,
and is still being listed as one of the top stories.
Man, I love this.
I really do.
Can't recall the exact headline,
but it's basically something like 'Muslims Need to be more Accommodating Too'.
And it was about comments made by some Muslims working for the PAP,
ex-minister or something.
You pretty much know what to expect
from the mouth of someone working for the PAP.
And oh yes, he still does.
The bullshit that comes out of his mouth is classic. No surprises there.
Sow a bit more division.
Refresh the 'us' and 'them' narrative.
And of course, infuse it with a little bit of flavour that tilts the blame
in favour of the Muslims- who happen to be a minority with a history of being discriminated again,
including institutionalised discrimination.
Right.
Oh I'm sure some dumbass cocksucker will go 'No no no! YOU DON'T KNOW LAH! WHAT ABOUT THOSE MUSLIMS IN OTHER COUNTRIES HUH? HUH??'
Incoherent, and linked to something irrelevant.
That's pretty much the type of argument you're likely to come across
when speaking with a typical Chinese Singaporean.
'SEE? YOU RACIST TOO! WHAT ABOUT MALAYS HUH? HUH?? TALK ABOUT RACE! YOU RACIST TOO LAHHHH'
The never-ending stream of stupid bullshit would be hard to stem at this point.
So why Chinese Singaporeans?
Because the education system and policies were designed by the PAP
specifically along racial lines.
Divide and conquer.
History and Social Study textbooks paint a relatively consistent
negative picture of Malays and Muslims.
Some of it subtle, some it not so much.
Maybe this has changed. I doubt it.
But even if it has, the effects can be felt now.
And of course, the media plays a similar role.
We hear Lee Kuan Yew or any of the ministers
exhorting the Malays to step up on a regular basis.
Really? As if they needed help, instead of an even footing.
As if they were somehow genetically inferior,
or their culture holds them back.
Forget about history and their accomplishments.
Oh no.
Malays are just plain lazy, and don't realize their own potential,
so it's up to the enlightened Chinese leaders to give them that boost.
OH THANK GOD.
Never mind the fact that racial discrimination is pretty much legal here.
Hell, the government practices it.
Example? Check out the HDB's policies.
Anyway, back to the article.
Yeah... before I even address it,
man, when was the last time you saw
an article that pretty much told the majority to 'Be Less Racist',
or 'Your Perceptions Minority Races Is Wrong'.
Zero.
But yet again...
another article telling the Muslims to basically be more accommodating,
as if they were intolerant visitors from another land.
Oh sure, there's plenty of blame to go around on both sides.
But when the attention is disproportionately heaped onto the minority,
which traditionally experiences the most discrimination (if I need to explain 'why' to you, then please go fulfill your destiny by fucking a goat and shutting the fuck up).
Yea... if only those Muslims would just stop being the way they are, huh?
You dumb fucking cunt.
Did you read a script? Or did they give you enough room to improvise?
And Muslims need to be more accommodating?
How, exactly?
No specific examples in the article. None.
Just some generic 'encouragement'.
Another nail into the large negative perception of Muslims and Malays in Singapore.
Who knows to what extent the incidences of discrimination are going to increase?
Yea... if only we would actually track and study these things.
Determine the problem, then fix it.
But common sense went out the window a long, long time ago.
I can't wait to get off this fucking shit-stain island.
Well enough of that
