When you rule a tiny speck of obedient serfs whose sole purpose in life is money, then he was LKY the Great. But when he entered the bigger world of even dirtier politics in Malaysia, he was out of his depth. He cannot even survive and they threw him out. They did him a favour. If he stayed, he would be a nobody and worse, probably dead by 1966.
It's better than ruling obedient serfs whose sole purpose in life is some bullshit promise of 72 virgins in paradise. Seriously, how dumbfuck are you to believe that drivel?
Singapore has done very very well since leaving Malaysia.
LKY meanwhile, left many of the minorities in limbo, post secondary education, by stopping them from entering National Service(NS). The employers, on their part, refused them employment because they have not completed NS and Mindef refused to give them an exemption letter. Employment was then open to the majority races. While the minorities remained unemployed thus creating ghettoes.
This is what he referred to as his social engineering.
The 1960s and 1970s were a very tough time for Singapore. Goh Keng Swee and Ah Gong built the SAF with pragmatism. The SAF was built to counter possible moslem invasion from hostile moslem neighbours. We couldn't risk having ourselves shot in the back by moslem religious fanatics who would betray us in the name of our religion.
Ask yourself honestly if you would shoot a non-moslem singaporean or give military intelligence to moslem invading forces simply because you share their religion.
This policy of excluding minorities from NS have long been reversed. m&d moslems do NS now, and m&d moslem ministers serve in Mindef. How many non-moslems serve in high ranking positions in jiuhu's military or defence ministry?
And then LKY did something worse than being a racist. He reserved the best jobs for his chosen people by denying vast numbers of juicy positions in the SAF airforce and navy and armored and commando units. I have not even started on the Civil Service.
The best jobs in the SAF and civil service goes to the scholars, chosen on merit. It beats the jiuhu system of giving the best jobs to m&d moslems simply because of their religion. Even Christian bumis are not given the best jobs under the bumiputera system.
That is the best lie. Whence he realised his social engineering was too successful and was about to create ghettoes everywhere and a new social class of very very marginalised low income that will threaten the chosen class, he then forced relocation on HDB ethnic quotas. Then he tried unsuccessfully closing madrasahs.
Let's face it, madrasahs outside of Singapore are a key source of radicalizing, women discrimination and religious intolerance in nearly every country in the world. There's also little practical relevance in memorizing arabic and religious studies besides being a religious preacher. Jiuhu parents send their kids for religious education because they are either dumbfucks or they want their kids to become politicians in moslem societies like kelantan. Singapore government exerts direct control over the madrassahs here so that they don't stir up shit in society like what we see in indon and jiuhu and pakistan.
The best part is after 55 years of independence with a Constitution that specifically details punitive action on discrimination, not a single charge was ever filed.
The best part is, you believe and endorse discrimination as long as it is your race and religion doing the discriminating. You only oppose discrimination when you are on the receiving end. Your religion openly disagrees with the concept of equality.