I felt almost as though I was watching a rerun of the Amos Yee saga as I saw the Government’s reaction to Subhas and Preeti Nair’s video. I have provided a link to it above since the Government has got its newly tamed houseboys Facebook and Google to take down or disable any links accessible to Singaporeans on their platform.

In the case of Amos Yee, the Government tried to make his prosecution about inciting religious hatred. But US immigration judge, Samuel Cole, who heard Amos’s asylum case, saw through their justifications and commented that in an 8 minute video, only 30 seconds were devoted to criticising Christians. He ruled it was a politically motivated prosecution done with the intention of silencing critics.

What seems to have riled the PAP here was not the expletives but the fact that the pair attack the Government in the video and blame it for tolerating, even encouraging, racism. The original racism on the part of NETS, a partially Government-owned company, and state media broadcaster, Mediacorp, gets ignored while those who point out racism are investigated by the police and may be prosecuted.

If the PAP was serious about tackling racism in our society then they would enact an Equality Act along the lines of the US or the UK. The PAP’s line on behalf of the majority is that there is no racism or unequal treatment in Singapore based on race and if you dare to suggest otherwise you will be prosecuted for inciting racial conflict which is seditious

LKY’s racist rants were never criticised but praised by his state media poodle as “hard truths to keep Singapore going.” His famous comments about whether it was possible to trust the Malays’ loyalty in time of war became institutionalised in the form of policies which excluded many Malays from doing NS or put them in policing roles. However in the era of Greater China, and, following LKY’s example, the PAP’s relentless exaltation of the superiority of Chinese culture, it is worth standing the question of loyalty on its head. Could a Chinese Singaporean be relied upon to defend Singapore if it was China that invaded?

These are the discussions we need to be having when we talk about “brown face”.

This is a link to the original video and below it some links to previous articles I have written:

https://archive.org/details/preetiattempt1

http://www.kenjeyaretnam.com/2019/07/11/how-ill-defined-laws-are-used-to-shut-down-criticism-of-the-government/

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I'm a Singaporean economist who became an opposition activist. I blog to provide an alternative to the porkies that the Pinkies tell. It just so happens that my alternative is the truth. That's why I've never been sued in any civil or criminal court no matter how hard hitting my criticism. I'm quoted and interviewed and asked to speak across the world but largely censored in Singapore in an effort to silence my political opinions. The left hate me because they think I split their vote and because I eschew their outmoded economic models. Models that don't work. The Right and the Conservatives hate me because I'm a liberal. I'm not sure what the middle think of me. I don't think there are more than a handful of people in the middle, here in Singapore. I'm a Singaporean born and bred, dual heritage, my parents Singaporean established here before the State of Singapore was created. I'm not Eurasian. I read economics at Cambridge and could be broadly described as from the Keynesian school but I believe in interventions. I was formerly a successful hedge fund manager. After economics and politics my greatest interests are history, film and Makan. I run but I run so I can eat like a Singaporean. View all posts by kjeyaretnam