Didn't really feel like posting today.
Until I read a couple of (sometimes in mangled English) articles and comments,
mostly written by Singaporeans.
I've read all kinds of responses.
From the ones exhorting tolerance,
to the ones baying for blood,
and everything in between.
What's that, you ask?
How do I feel about it?
Why, thank you for asking, dear reader.
I am fucking excited.
Hell, I would LOVE to see more riots in Singapore.
About goddamn time.
Before I go on, a few clarifications need to be made first.
For this post, 'foreign workers' refer to the dark-skinned work-permit holders
from India, Bangladesh, and possibly Pakistan.
These workers have very few rights compared to holders
of Employment Passes,
let alone Singaporeans.
For example,
if they'd been mistreated by their employer and lodged a report,
the motherfucking employer has the power to revoke the permit,
essentially deporting the worker.
Oh sure, they get to stay in Singapore until their cases are resolved,
but they are strictly not allowed to work.
And these cases can take months, if not years to resolve.
That's right.
That's just one example of how the odds are heavily stacked against them.
To the idiots who blame all the foreign workers,
babbling on and on about respecting the law,
being grateful, etc.
Grateful for what, exactly you dumb fuck cocksucker?
They came here for WORK.
Not fucking charity.
Everybody deserves to be treated like an equal.
Like a human being.
Some Singaporeans love
to say this:
'If they don't like it, go home LAH'
It's become a sort of mantra.
This mantra should be condensed,
heated up,
and stuck straight up their asses.
First of all,
what in the holy hell makes you think they even have the choice to go home?
Most of them paid an unholy amount of money to work here,
and you expect them to just up and leave?
The government (that you and your dumbfuck fucking family voted for)
has a relatively open-door policy.
These workers tend to view this as a chance to better themselves.
Not as a chance to get treated like sub-humans;
to be exploited and abused.
We NEED them.
Again, it's not fucking charity.
Just to clarify to a couple of the dumbasses out there,
I am not condoning the riot (although I do think it's fucking AWESOME that it happened).
Think for a second.
Do you honestly believe up to 400 people would suddenly
begin rioting,
endangering their and their families' livelihoods over an ACCIDENT?
Really?
The anger had been simmering for a long, long time.
I've seen the way the police treat the workers there. And I wish I'd done something, but I didn't.
What had been going on there for years?
What them suddenly snap?
The sad part is,
that we will probably never know the truth of what happened.
Especially now since it's become a political issue.
The official smear campaign has begun.
The accident victim was apparently drunk (implying that he shouldered most of the blame).
And so was the mob. The implication for this, being that they are uncivilised alcoholics (a racist stereotype of Indians), savages.
Once they have been dehumanized,
it makes the severe punishments so much easier for the general population to swallow.
Not that it takes much.
The government has been doing pretty well in the area of Race Politics.
Divide them up by race, sow distrust.
A little nudge is all it takes.
Oh and yea,
these foreign workers have not been 'trained' like we have.
And that's a good thing.
They bring with them courage. Singaporeans need this courage. The minorities especially.
They say violence is not the answer.
Really?
When you go against the wishes of the government,
a law that you do not agree with, nor voted for,
a law that dictates you should be sent to prison for not obeying,
what happens when you try to resist?
What exactly do you think happens when you refuse to be put in a cage?
Yea, the officers are not going to sit idly by,
stage a sit-in at your office or anything.
Nope.
They will take you. BY FORCE.
State-sanctioned violence is still violence.
Well enough of that
