by Bryan Huang
A BLOGGER has released a list of foreign students on an
'Academic Blacklist', but removed the post after it made it to the
pages of a local blog site.
The Liberating Truth blog said it compiled the list, which
comprises students from NTU School of Computer Engineering, from
names that had been submitted from other students.
In the post, The Liberating Truth asked the persons named on the
list to 'reflect on your behaviour from today onwards and stop
being a public nuisance to other students'.
Students were identified by their course, years, nationalities
and photos accompanied by 'testimonials', allegedly from fellow
students.
In a post on Thursday, The Liberating Truth said it removed the
Academic Blacklist photos as the blog post had reached The Temasek
Review.
'Publicity' in the Temasek Review website 'would only add fuel'
to the foreign students, the author said in a post. The author also
felt that the lack of contribution by NUS students made it seem
like the blog section was aimed at NTU, which the author said was
'unfair'.
The author also offered to send the photos by e-mail to those
who requested them.
The blog post regarding the removal said that the author did
'not encourage Singaporeans to exhibit racial discrimination' just
because the blog 'seemingly made a harmless attempt to spur you
on'.
'I would hope the foreign students mentioned in my blog had
their few days of fame in Singapore's social politics and would
certainly reflect on their behaviour. If such behaviour continues,
there will be a time when another crazy Singaporean like me will
start to give them unwanted publicity again,' the author said in
the blog post.
