SAP schools


Education

Should SAP schools be allowed to exist? What about madrasahs? Why is it that SAP schools are under the purview or MOE, and given specialist teachers, while madrasahs are private institutions under MUIS, with most teachers untrained by NIE? SAP schools are given extra funding, madrasahs raise their own funds, are allowed to use them […]

July 22, 2017

Examples of Racism in Singapore


Race

This page is an attempt to collect all of the news articles and significant blogposts relating to racism in Singapore. Not all of these posts are describing racist incidents – some are noteworthy discussions about racism. I’ve been pretty busy in 2021 so I haven’t been keeping up with the news as much since. If […]

July 15, 2017

Attention Whores


sg mentality

(In response to this post on Rice Media) What’s always fascinating to me is how so many socially awkward keyboard warriors like to call people like Kristen “attention whores”. Same for Amos, Roy, and basically any public figure who isn’t a public official. My guess is that these people are so deeply socialized to be […]

July 4, 2017

index


meta

Singlish Amos Yee Apathy – This is meant to be a post about how and why Singaporeans tend to be politically apathetic. Particularly, I want to examine why people consistently make the mistake of assuming that superficial shows of support (Facebook Likes, rally attendance, etc) will translate into some sort of real impact and change, when […]

July 2, 2017

Suicide reporting in the media


media

Channel News Asia – Suicide not usually result of single source of stress, says IMH doctor – discussion on /r/singapore I want to address /u/skipshentaiscene ‘s comment, which I think is a useful jumping-off point for a good conversation about the utility of news media: I read the article and didn’t find anything flagrantly wrong with what […]

July 2, 2017

The Boy Who Wouldn’t Behave


sg mentality

Work in progress. “Why is nobody helping me?” Amos Yee isn’t the first person to say the things he’s said. He isn’t the first person to call Lee Kuan Yew a dictator. He isn’t the first person to mock religion. He isn’t the first person to talk about NS in derogatory terms. – It’s interesting […]

July 2, 2017