Mr Internet Brigade, see ? I am not the only one 'traumatised' by your choice of avatar.
It is a choice, for sure. Instead of asking why the intolerance, how about asking yourself why your insistence to adopt such a provocative avatar - the image of some ugly snooty paper general to boot ?
Try seeing it this way - if guests who regularly visit YPAP forums adopt avatars using Chee Soon Juan or Gopalan Nair or JBJ's face : do you think it will not provoke some dismay / unhappiness amongst the diehard PAP supporters ?
Its like waving a red cloth to a raging bull - and you wonder why the bullis so snorting 'mad' & 'intolerant'?
In any case, what is stopping you from using countless other more tasteful & less provocative avatar ?
Think about it. And don't use the '...it is the principle'.." BS line.
Other than that, I can live with most of your party-line arguments, however much I disagree with them.
I find myself agreeing with these words. So that avatar represents a face that cause unhappiness.
Frankly I do not know who that guy is. Neither do I care. The individuals that make up the PAP are not important. What is important to me are the fundamental direction that the PAP is leading us. That and the basic character of the Prime Minister - is he a humane man, as humane as a person in authority can be or does he only understand paper. Both his predecessors are humane men of honour, caring for the majority of citizens. I hope he is one too. Because a country's citizens, especially her core citizens, take on the character and actions of the Prime Minister.
Anyway, give Internet Bridgade a chance. I find him better than Clinton666. His responses are typical and i can understand that it rubs people the wrong way. At least, it gives people here a knowledge of the possible PAP response towards situations (bearing in mind that Internet Brigade is only representing his own opinion). Any change to their responses has to come from its leaders.
To be fair, it is the same for the Workers Party and Singapore Democratic Alliance. It is just that we citizens are not subjected to their idiosyncracies as otherwise we would be complaining too. The larger the extent of your governance, the greater the possibility of unhappiness. Anyone who held positions of general power will understand this.
Therefore take it with a pinch of salt. Live and let live. In any case, so long as we are not receiving any monetary rewards or psychic compensation from being beholden to a political party, our opinions will evolve. Generally for the better.