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It is an adversarial attitude because in one broad stroke, Mr Tan Chuan-Jin paints commentators and activists who have been trying to voice opinions and recommend changes as destructive. It must be remembered that his remarks come in the wake of a flurry of backlash by the government against bloggers and netizens in recent months.
It is also a twisted attitude because the examples that Mr Tan Chuan-Jin cited to bolster his claim were not about some anonymous trouble-makers shooting off from their hips (such people do exist, without a doubt), but about people with a genuine reason to be discontented or disgruntled.
Mr Tan had based his remarks on two letters recently published by Yahoo Singapore.
One of the letters was written by operations manager Brian Vittachi, who had asked his sister not to return to Singapore from Sri Lanka, saying that “Singapore has sold its soul“.
The other letter was written by public relations consultant Wang Su Lin who said she was not ashamed of being gay, but ashamed of being a Singaporean. She said that she had emigrated to Canada which she felt was more welcoming and tolerant.
Do these two people sound like trouble-makers or naysayers to you? Singapore has become so engulfed in materialism that it has indeed lost much of its soul. Sky high asset prices, overcrowding, and a loss of national identity are tearing at the fabric of society. These are real concerns, not some hogwash made up by a naysayer.
- http://www.sgpolitics.net/?p=8500
It is also a twisted attitude because the examples that Mr Tan Chuan-Jin cited to bolster his claim were not about some anonymous trouble-makers shooting off from their hips (such people do exist, without a doubt), but about people with a genuine reason to be discontented or disgruntled.
Mr Tan had based his remarks on two letters recently published by Yahoo Singapore.
One of the letters was written by operations manager Brian Vittachi, who had asked his sister not to return to Singapore from Sri Lanka, saying that “Singapore has sold its soul“.
The other letter was written by public relations consultant Wang Su Lin who said she was not ashamed of being gay, but ashamed of being a Singaporean. She said that she had emigrated to Canada which she felt was more welcoming and tolerant.
Do these two people sound like trouble-makers or naysayers to you? Singapore has become so engulfed in materialism that it has indeed lost much of its soul. Sky high asset prices, overcrowding, and a loss of national identity are tearing at the fabric of society. These are real concerns, not some hogwash made up by a naysayer.
- http://www.sgpolitics.net/?p=8500
