Disgust over 'Eve and Ivy' cyber rants
By Ian Poh
The Straits Times
Friday, Oct 12, 2012
UPDATE - According to the Chinese evening daily Shin Min, a netizen lodged a police report against Eve Tan about her racist online comments on Malays and Indians and the police have confirmed that they are looking into the matter.
SINGAPORE - Internet users are calling for action to be taken against two other people who posted controversial comments on Facebook.
They said the posts' authors should be dealt with in a similar way to Ms Amy Cheong, the woman fired on Monday for making racially offensive remarks about the Malay community.
One of the two Facebook users, who called herself Eve Tan, also posted derogatory comments about Malays, branding them "low educated" and "lazy".
They were apparently made last month in response to a question on the Health Promotion Board's profile page. When others challenged her, she replied: "Get real, just see the truth."
Another Facebook user calling herself Ivy Lim has also come under scrutiny for comments posted on the site. She had written: "Looks like all th(e) Malays can't get over it. Poor thing!"
In response, a thread was set up on chat site Sam's AlfrescoHeaven entitled "After Amy, think Ivy & Eve will also get into trouble."
A fuckwarezone member posted on Monday: "Enough about this Amy Cheong lah, she already got her just desserts, now time to concentrate on Eve Tan."
On Tuesday, Facebook user Nazry Isa posted a message he had written to Ms Tan to express his disapproval, adding: "This person isn't as high profile as Ms Cheong, but again, her offence is the same."
By Tuesday night, it had attracted over 200 likes and 40 comments, and had been shared 21 times. In another link on his page, Mr Nazry shared a screenshot of Ms Tan's controversial comment and captioned it: "A fine example of complete ignorance portrayed by our very own Singaporeans.
"It truly, truly disappoints me that some of us are no longer sensitive and tolerant to the feelings of other races. Whatever happened to racial harmony/tolerance?" It is unclear what Ms Tan's background is.
Some have wondered whether she is using her real name.
A fuckwarezone user posted: "I highly suspect this 'Eve Tan' is a fake account leh. And the photo is to sabo (sabotage) the real person leh."
