XiaXue vs. Sydney race riots: A Comparison.
Deal with one XX-sympathiser and you’ve dealt with them all. They all have a common modus operandi: attack the critics of her words, their motives and their characters but never justifying her words. Why not? Because they can’t be justified.
Then there are so-called fence-sitters who applaud this 20-something year old girl for “speaking her mind”. Have you ppl even read her words? Maybe you haven’t ventured out of Singapore where you are the majority of the community and have never experienced racism as a result. But ignorance is not an excuse.
More damning is that you *have* experienced racism and yet you are racist towards others yourself. You know how hurtful it is and yet you want to perpetuate it?
To put things in perspective, I thought I’d compare XX’s racist tirade against Bangladeshis in Singapore with what had happened in Sydney just before Xmas.
XX
- Minority of Bangladeshis (along with Singaporeans too) behaving inappropriately in public places.
- Brought to a head by her own isolated encounters.
- Generalised that all “Banglas” are molesters and should be restricted from *all* Singaporean public spaces.
- Writes about these thoughts on a site visited by thousands daily – some of whom deem it ok to spew forth their own racist thoughts. Even advocated the beatings of any one caught molesting.
Sydney
- Minority of Lebanese youths behaving inappropriately on Sydney beaches.
- Brought to a head by an attack on Sydney beach lifesavers by some of these youths.
- Racists generalised that all “Lebbos and Wogs” are miscreants and should be restricted from *all* Sydney beaches.
- Anonymous SMSes were passed around advocating “bashing up Lebbos and Wogs”.
- … the rest, well you knew what happened.
Is it that difficult to see the potential for harm from XX’s words? Imagine that you are a Bangladeshi. Imagine that you are a dark-skinned Indian. Matter of fact, imagine that you are a dark-skinned Pakistani or Sri-Lankan. Oh don’t forget also dark-skinned Nepalese. Heck, how about every race in and around the Indian sub-continent?
Now imagine that you are in a crowded place, and you were mistaken to have molested someone even though the perpetrator could easily be a Singaporean *Chinese*. You look around and there’s a mob of angry looking Chinese youths just looking for an excuse for some bloodletting. Imagine what would happen. And then imagine that you are not even a foreign worker but a Singaporean citizen.
Change “Chinese” to “white” in the paragraph above and that was the situation in Sydney.
So, why is it so difficult for you XX-sympathisers to understand that fair-minded ppl like me would find Xiaxue’s words to be highly inflammatory and offensive?
Read your history, read your current affairs, read your world news. Update yourselves on the sedition and racial-vilification laws. Please, educate yourselves and become more worldly.
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To star:
To be able to walk safely at night in the streets of singapore is something we are known for overseas because of our low crime rate.
So ok I may be wrong. Go ahead and party during NYE with those banglahs if you dare.
I dare you to. I would also dare to allow yourself to get sprayed by the same people.
since you are so sure they would not harm you, you shouldn’t be scared right? And I don’t mean stand on the sidelines. you have to get yourself INTO the crowd. Mingle among them on your own.
Go ahead, brave girl.
anonymous:
fuck you, don’t patronise me – I’m Singaporean.
And you know what, I know for a fact that the foreign workers weren’t the only ones spraying people. You have no right to label the whole group of them as molesters because of one incident.
And I don’t need to prove anything to you. I don’t have to party on NYE among them to prove that I’m unafraid of them. I already know some foreign workers – more than you ever will because of your “must stereotype everyone” mentality. And you know what, even if I did entertain your “dare” (are you fifteen or something, seeing how you have the juvenile need to dare me?), you can be sure as hell that’d I’d be partying among any race of people and telling off idiots, regardless of skin colour or nationality. Everyone has the right to party where they choose, and everyone has the right to a tongue lashing if they do something to piss me off.
I’m ashamed to call a bigot like you a fellow Singaporean. Bet you were never around for racial harmony day huh?
daddycool: I think the reason why mooi (and I) often write about Xiaxue is because we know that she yields a large audience. A large and easily influenced audience. Thus, instead of standing by and doing nothing we blog about it so that people will, hopefully, realise that she’s not exactly the best person to be worshipping.
star:
wow look at you, spouting vulgaries already. what a reasonable and matured lady you are.
How else are you ever going to know how victims feel?
Are you aware how many victims pinpointed Banglahs as the sole molesters?
Are you saying the whole group of singaporean girls were blind? misguided?
of course Banglahs were NOT THE ONLY molesters there. But I dare to say they form the majority. And they are more likely to molest girls then Singaporeans.
I presume you have never read the link to the post by the indian lady up there, so I guess you know shit about this thing call eve-teasing too.
So the best way to know is of course be there yourself, before you can even try to convince ANY OF THOSE VICTIMS those people are safe to mingle with.
You want to sell the idea that they are not likely molesters then other people, prove it.
What better way to stop our accusations?
Make an example of yourself.
You decide, brave girl.
Brainless, illogical idiots like you are unworthy of courtesy.
While freely conceding that from copious amounts of anecdotal evidence, Banglas appear to be committing a disproportionate number of molests, we must, I think, agree that denying that, all things being equal, a bangla is more likely than a local to blind you with foam spray and molest you along Orchard Road on Christmas and New Year’s Eve is an unavoidable concomitant of a society that condemns racism and refuses to prejudge individuals based on their biological attributes, even if they are statistically correlated with certain actions, and that the rigors which Singaporean women have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement.
We don’t know yet, though, whether they really *are* responsible for a disproportionate number of molest cases. Guess we’ve to wait for the report.
Star:
if you say so “brave” girl.
agagooga: as far as I can see you are the rare few being subjective in this.
p.s I have added you to my rss feed. keep up the good work dude.
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