Will you give racists a second chance?

last SG · 2005-04-29T23:26:43+00:00

That doesn't sound like zero tolerance! Is a written warning all he is going to get? I'm sure there are many others out there who are equally capable AND who...

seed SG

I really hope people will stop saying, "Everybody is more or less a racist." Thats a very gross postulation. I feel theres safety in numbers and thats why some tend to generalize of that. Or am i so wrong that indeed the majority of Singaporeans are racists? As far as I know, you're only a racist when offensive thoughts come to mind. At most, idiocrasies of certain races are just tolerated with but not viewed with scornful contempt. Or are they? Have you crossed that line?

even minor things like slight dislike for another race's customs and rituals can be branded as racist since racist covers that aspect as well...

This is like having a close friend who has a habit of shaking his leg which you're annoyed at. But do you hate the friend? No, you just can't accept his action. So, it doesnt mean to be racist right?

The key point here is how much we show it and how much tolerance we are expected to exercise despite our dislikes and misunderstandings

*Nods..*

chronicles SG

For those of you who say no, let me ask you how would you feel yourself if you are not forgiven and people keep bearing the same old grudge against you?

iamgoondu SG

Would you forgive someone easily who talk bad behind your back?

crazy monkey SG

you cannot other ppl can Laughing

lwflee SG

Well... i forgive him, but i still do not want him in the Civil service. If we allow this, then where do we draw the line? Remember Hitler? The only way to approach this issue is zero-tolerance. No Buts, No sorry, No Please forgive mes.

robertteh SG

We are not born perfect. When we are 20 we made certain mistakes like arguing for the sake of show-offs, stubbornness or rashness.

In our 20-30s, we are too hasty in making certain decisions on investments etc resulting in losses and we learn.

Everyone will have to go through the learning curve. If on every case of reported behavioural or personal anti-social behaviour, we want to pressure the government into taking action, then over time the government will do us all a favour - take actions as much as they can under the rule of "Deviancy Amplification Sydrome" helped by the press hungry for such juicy news.

Then our society will become more and more controlled. Sometime, our government may be too happy and take more drastic actions because people ask for it and this suits them fine because they like to collect more fines and increase their control of population.

So people, beware of your complaints. Be balanced and ask for action by the government only where there are some serious threats to society. Today we already have put together many laws to check on citizens on this and that. On the whole our society is not in danger of toppling over due to racism. In fact our GRC being done to prevent racism has killed our political renewal now.

Do not make those category of complaints that will lead to government increasing its power on the citizens even more. I am not condoning racism and feel that the scholar who expressed racist remarks should be penalized in some way in a more balanced manner. He has to grow up on the learning curve.

[email protected] SG

He continued: "ya. I discovered I'm so racist. at the club (under lighting in which everyone is supposed to look good), i still find indians and filipinos (dark ones) so repulsive n such a turn-off."

whoo hoo hooooo!

im sure many caucasians feel the same way about him. oh well. im not surprised. most of these govt scholars nowadays. hah. mostly rubbish.

dragg SG

just let the matter rest. give him a chance!! if he continues to be a racist the govt wont let him serve in civil service.

Ito_^ SG

anything, i don't think its of any big deal becuz noone is perfect. juz becuz we dun say it, but we all have our own probs or even slight disgrudge about certain groups of people.

but he is stupid la.. nevertheless, blogs oso cannot write down all yr true feelings and thoughts. use it correctly will however prove certain points.

sgdiehard SG

agree, zero-tolerance for racist attitude or behavior; and for the man, forgive but do not forget. If he feels remorse and correct, then he should be given a chance. If he doesn't, then come down on him harder the next time.

chronicles SG

If he is sincere and ask for forgiveness and not do it again remember forgiveness has a few "Terms and conditions apply" as well

sgdiehard SG

wise advice indeed. I read recently the religious groups were asking LHL to monitor and control their members in entering casino, sigh.....the government are already in our lives and lets not ask for them to be in our souls.

this guy is only 21 and he probably does not deserve any forgiveness, but to reprimand him and then forgive him show the graciousness of our society. Lets be more balanced.

dakkon_blackblade SG

Perhaps next time we should make the scholar organise more racial harmony activities, or maybe even make him do attachments in India or Bangladesh, or home stays with Malays or Indians, so as to erase some of the prejudices which he professed to in his blog. Idea

timothytsgsg SG

no, he's both stupid and racist. Not to mention he's an immature idiot.

timothytsgsg SG

Lolz! That is the absolutely the most funniest joke I've seen in a long while!!

Rolling Eyes

timothytsgsg SG

It's a simple reason on why I advocate an absolute zero-tolerance anti-racism policy- it's about not having double standards.

From young, students here were advised not to be racist to people of different races and religions and were(and are) advised to not just explore the origins of their own race and religion, but others as well.

I've had Malay, indian and pan-asian friends from primary sch, malay friends in sec sch, and now many friends in poly(not to mention pple from different countries). I grew up believing that irrespective of the different colour of the skin or the origins of my friends, we belonged to the same race: the human race.

That's why when I hear pple like this PSC scholar degrading indians and other brown skinned people into something like "sub-humans" because of their poor origins and brown skin, I get really enraged. Nothing gets me up than this kind of pple who think they are more superior because they have yellow skin as opposed to brown skin.

And now this PSC scholar is only given a slap on the wrist by the PSC board, which is basically a govt. board. That only gives an impression that the govt. itself gives lip service to the cause of anti-racism and a multi-racial society. The govt is showing itself as an absolute joke and an absolute hypocritic.

When it was time to show their strength, they failed to do so. In itself, this sort of action only serves on how much this PAP govt has lost itself in its own money-driven policies and its own greed for money.

If I was in charge, I will shoot that bastard down and I would leave his body on the ground for the vultures to feed on his body. No chances given, no chances taken. If he's dead, he's dead. Screw the rest.

lwflee SG

I understand what you are saying and i agree with you in principle. However, in this case, i think that it is unlikely that new legislation will be needed to revoke his scholarship. This is coz the Scholarship contract very probably has a "good conduct" clause of some sort. There might even a "catch all" clause that allows the scholarship to be terminated at the discretion of PSC, at least while the Scholar is still studying.

foxwalk SG

i think that those from SAP schools are more racist and cliquish and only hang out with the other chinese. but it is not more a majority race to examine if it’s racist, it’s for the minority race to feedback (hopefully diplomatically) to them. after all, one can’t be the victim of racism much because there is safety in numbers.

crazy monkey SG

issit ? wat kind of dumb theory is tat ? Rolling Eyes

skyline63 SG

India really smelly. You call that racist ? Come on ! Go and smell them and see you run or not ?

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