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Do racist comments online really reflect what Singaporeans think? | Deep Dive

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@osmanzng8065
@@osmanzng80651 months ago
Censorship impedes efforts to address discrimination by suppressing the dialogue, education, and shared experiences needed to expose and dismantle systemic bias.
@osmanzng8065
@@osmanzng80651 months ago
Analyze the Jāti system’s defining traits to deepen understanding of racial discrimination.
@PrimeChaosVC
@@PrimeChaosVC1 months ago
Let's be honest: individual racism here is alive and well. It just doesn't quite scale to the professional, gold-standard, goose-stepping levels of your certain racial supremacist groups. We're amateurs. Enthusiastic, sure, but amateurs.
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<br>And really — who knows the true national racism percentage? Nobody. It&#39;s like asking how much salt is in the soup. The chef doesn&#39;t know, the diners don&#39;t know, and the guy doing the taste test has already lost his sense of taste. What we do know is that a lot of plain old prejudice and everyday bias gets conveniently rebranded as racism — like slapping a &quot;premium&quot; sticker on instant noodles. Which, ironically, cheapens the real thing. True racism — the artisanal, small-batch, heritage kind practiced by the self-declared Free and Democratic Champions of Humanity™, as lovingly documented in their Hollywood films — deserves its own museum, not this counterfeit merchandise.
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<br>But here&#39;s the plot twist nobody puts in the brochures: Singapore is not an Asian country. Not even Southeast Asian, really. We&#39;re an island of honorary white Christians cosplaying as kakis with our SEA brothers — holding the teh tarik in one hand and a Western approval rating in the other.🤣
@dennistan4663
@@dennistan46631 months ago
Why complica
@nicholasbolas
@@nicholasbolas1 months ago
Yes. But it&#39;s also because there&#39;s actual discontent in the local community. The poor situations you see in your day-to-day lives, more litter, more crowds than ever before, etc...<br>Also... the climate change. The damn heat makes folks more emotional and bothered. And I&#39;m not joking. Heat irritates humans.
@VivekR-bu4iq
@@VivekR-bu4iq1 months ago
Social media is here to stay. What it allows, is to create online mobs quickly, and allows latent feeling to gather steam. This is how society is going to function, so we need to learn how to manage it
@brainyclassmates4372
@@brainyclassmates43721 months ago
It is all Singapore&#39;s fault.<br>Singapore made some comments (telling China not to retaliate if US bullies China) that provoked 1.4 billion super-smart and super-hardworking China people.<br>Common sense: C minds his own business, he is polite, he works hard and wants to play nice, but if S does/says unreasonable things about C to make C bad mood, why shouldn&#39;t C make S bad mood?<br>Physics: Newton&#39;s 3rd law of motion. Action and Reaction.<br>Statistics:<br>China: 1,400,000,000 people.<br>Singapore: 6,000,000 people.<br><br>China&#39;s Olympics medals: 819<br>Singapore&#39;s Olympics medals: 6<br><br>China&#39;s Fields Medal winners: 3<br>Singapore&#39;s Fields Medal winners: 0 <br><br>China&#39;s global brands: HuaWei. XiaoMi. OPPO. Alibaba. Temu. Shein. BYD. ZX Moto. TikTok. Red Note. DeepSeek AI. SeeDance AI. (Be humble. Just name a few.)<br><br>Singapore&#39;s global brands: 0 (No Singapore handphones. No Singapore cars. No Singapore bikes. No Singapore AI. No so on and so forth.)
@burongburong
@@burongburong1 months ago
To foster better mental health, Goberment must ban all online comments, plus youtube advertisements
@burongburong
@@burongburong1 months ago
On a broader stroke, We should Ban All online comments, All comments should be posted to SPh newspapers , just like long long time ago
@burongburong
@@burongburong1 months ago
is calling/reminding someone to go back their country, racist ? illegal? or caring?
@bobafett5757
@@bobafett57571 months ago
Generally people are so confused between being a nationalist and a racist so a proper education and deliberation is needed to address such issue like the SIA and AI investment venture
@entershikarii
@@entershikarii1 months ago
The last comment about driving antisocial speech further underground is perceptive: On one hand, how am I better off not knowing what you’re really thinking? And on the other hand, I guess it’s the price we pay to keep a small multiethnic nation together. There are no solutions, only trade-offs.
@chua2237
@@chua22371 months ago
Hijack racism instead of solving real issues,1987 Marxist conspiracy, you believe?
@bethefreesoul
@@bethefreesoul1 months ago
Nope, sometimes account is not real singaporeans, you guys need to spot on some people really tried to make singapore in division, but raising concern for the tax payer money is not racist this is people responsible to know where there hard earned money goes
@dansub9795
@@dansub97951 months ago
This discussion is so awkward and silly with western woke liberal innuendos laced all over it - IBID &#39;DARKSKIN VICTIM BLAME. The crux of the matter is, we all have racist lens, thus don&#39;t fret and even try defending the dark skinned Indians. Racist trope-ping is NOT one way<br>😂😂😂. Indians say the same racist thing about Chinese, Malays, and even other Indians too, eg, a race hvn dirty smelly tissue ass, kaum malas, takde akal, suka rogol anak sendiri, low caste estate pariah-yan etc bla bla bla, yada yada yada. Indians also, contrary to normal Singaporean behaviour, peg their noses when a Chinese or Malay gets into an elevator, and they also thank all God&#39;s tht they were not born Chinese, Malay or Darker skinned but yet fawn over the mat salleh colonizers. So don&#39;t worry, it&#39;s more tht Indians look down on other races and oddly, on other Indians too. <br>This mindset is because they know their worth and place in the global economy and hegemony based on an inherent caste system. Don&#39;t need to defend the Indian Diaspora, which actually has been around 200 years BCE. The Pandya, Cholas, and Kalinggas, are empires tht spanned centuries across Asia, plying their culture and treading the spice trade route from India to Greece via Siam, Temasik, before Christ. Just saying. <br>We are all human apes preoccupied by greed, tribalism and hegemony, hellbent on destroying earth and it&#39;s real habitat creators - poor animals, we look through the narrow human lens, tht we forget our place in the universe. Pure hubris.
@bobafett5757
@@bobafett57571 months ago
Trump has called a certain country a hell hole so is this a racist comment ?
@burongburong
@@burongburong1 months ago
so if few motorcyclists cut into my lane at a traffic light stop, and i am a Chinese. are they racist too?
@Bobodaeng1082
@@Bobodaeng10821 months ago
First of all, what does being a Singaporean means. Who knows? <br>It means differently to everyone. To some it means to look like a certain kind, to some it means to speak like a certain kind, to some your name should be of a certain kind, to some it means making Singapore their home for themselves and their family, etc. <br>Everyone has their own illusion of what Singapore identity is.<br>In today&#39;s world, u are a citizen as long as u hold that country&#39;s passport. Period. <br>Stop making up fanciful stories of what being that country&#39;s citizen means.
@k-map224
@@k-map2241 months ago
All these damn racists across the globe especially from certain countries that love to hate Indians and people of Indian ethnicity need to realise that Indian race are twice the size of the next largest ethnicity of Chinese across the world as people of Indian ethnicity are not found in just diaspora across the world but you even have countries other than India from Africa to the carribbean to South America where people of Indian ethnicity are the majority so if you think by being racist to the people with the largest human race on the planet to satisfy your ego or ethnicity then you have to be the biggest fool on the planet as your nowhere comparable to us or not replacing the largest and oldest human race of this planet 😂😂😂
@ntbirds3280
@@ntbirds32801 months ago
Using A.I. online can easily amplify dangers if used incorrectly into a malicious intent to cause a major outbreak in comments harming to individuals religious or cultural groups. It all depends how or what people use A.I. for to either search information or to create havoc with social and / or political harm.<br>Homes and schools as well as councillor sectors should help those who are affected by negative social media and direct them to a more healthy lifestyle and environment and meaningful better, positive results.<br>Both Singapore 🇸🇬 and HONG KONG 🇭🇰 SAR share the same multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-ethnicity society and problems do come up. We should treat and respect each other as equals.<br>Just don’t post or re-post anything that is culturally / religiously sensitive.
@burongburong
@@burongburong1 months ago
so if chinese speaks Only mandrain and dialects to other races, is that racism and chargeable too?
@chua2237
@@chua22371 months ago
America racism against Chinese Chinese become model minority,if America didn&#39;t racism against China China still don&#39;t have a space station.
@nathanchen-h2o
@@nathanchen-h2o1 months ago
People who plays the race-card for political ends like champioing the immigration policy is worse than an honest racists.
@JojoJoget
@@JojoJoget1 months ago
Don’t act like you dunno your own people lmao, EDMW have been around for a long time
@burongburong
@@burongburong1 months ago
does it include &quot;yellow skin, white skin brown skin black skin&quot;, so colours are illegal too?
@nathanchen-h2o
@@nathanchen-h2o1 months ago
Main stream media are not much better with the hard truths than social media.
@burongburong
@@burongburong1 months ago
is there a black and white guideline?
@nathanchen-h2o
@@nathanchen-h2o1 months ago
Hello, online experts what are your take on Institutionalised racism. Just act blur.
@nathanchen-h2o
@@nathanchen-h2o1 months ago
If a native Indian accuses another native Indian of racist remarks, is this racism?
@Bionicbuddha_X
@@Bionicbuddha_X1 months ago
How about satires and standup comedies that have racial elements. Does this mean stand up comedians like Ronnie Cheng and Russell Peters who use elements of known racial stereotyping in their jokes cannot perform in Singapore?
@nathanchen-h2o
@@nathanchen-h2o1 months ago
Birds of the same feathers flock together in a talk shop.
@mrtienphysics666
@@mrtienphysics6661 months ago
Yes
@FoRs1GhT
@@FoRs1GhT1 months ago
Imagine some folks break a window.<br><br>Instead of asking &quot;how do we fix the window and prevent this from happening again&quot;, CNA is asking do the owners speak for everyone in the room?&quot;<br><br>This is a red herring and CNA is asking the wrong questions.
@Lawlianne
@@Lawlianne1 months ago
The answer generally leans towards yes, but it&#39;s never that extreme and ridiculous for the common person.
@blog2153
@@blog21531 months ago
Not at all! Those comments are generated by AI, bots, earth’s spin, aliens, El Niño, puffer fish etc..
@christopherleng
@@christopherleng1 months ago
Counter hate with love! 😁